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During the week we have noticed a strong controversy that arose in Maipú due to the intention of the Mayor Cathy Barriga to enable a downtown area Central avenue as a bohemian neighborhood on Friday evenings, closing it between Pajaritos and Primera Transversal so that “foodtrucks” are installed and that some food establishments occupy the street setting up tables. to help the sector due to its losses from the coronavirus pandemic.
The mayor of the UDI expressed that he wishes to imitate recognized areas of that style in Santiago, As the Lastarria neighborhood, and in Providence, he Italia neighborhood. And it even already has a name: “Central neighborhood”.
The problem for the ex-dancer from the old TV show Soft is that such initiative generates rejection in the residents of the area, which is residential, and also among a large part of the councilors, who were not consulted about it.
And that if you want to specify your initiative, the media mayor must modify a municipal ordinance for the use of public spaces and for this she needs a simple majority of the Council, something that does not have because six of the four councilors are opponents of his management.
In addition, and according to the information on the web The Voice of Maipú, not even the supposed beneficiaries, who are grouped in the Gastronomy and Culture Association local, share the proposal of the mayor, an idea that would have been discarded after a Extraodinary Council last Tuesday the highest authority left the remote meeting when there were barely 24 minutes because some councilors began to question the “Central neighborhood”.
“The mayor had only been meeting with the Maipú Gastronomy and Culture Association, with whom she had supposedly reached this kind of agreement. However, from the guild they practically renounce themselves.
The Association pointed out that the meetings began with the objective of ensuring that all gastronomic entrepreneurs in the commune (not only those on Avenida Central) could use the platabandas, since about 70% of the premises have neither terrace nor parking. .
“Last week he invited us to an extraordinary meeting, but only those from Avenida Central. We went and they presented the project to us. We were all in one piece … We said “Madam Mayor, we believe that this is not the time”, because it was distorted. What we wanted were public spaces and for the audits to be educational and not so punishing, but we had never talked about closing the streets, “they insist (from the Association)“, indicates “The Voice of Maipú”.
And since the neighbors, who have never been consulted on the matter, fear that the project will continue, several of them are organizing to put up a protection resource, since they believe that their neighborhood would be harmed if the famous “Barrio Central” by Cathy Barriga.
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