Adriana Córdoba resigned her position as Secretary of Planning for Bogotá

The former official worked in the Office of the Attorney General, the National Planning Department and was a district supervisor before landing in the cabinet of Claudia López. Although the reasons for his resignation are unknown, the decision is disturbing as the city is structuring its new Land Use Plan (POT).

A surprising resignation shook the cabinet of the mayor of Bogotá, Claudia López, on Friday night. Adriana Córdoba, who was head of the Planning Secretariat (one of the most important portfolios in the District), withdrew from her position citing personal reasons. His resignation is the first exit from the cabinet that Mayor López began to appoint once he won the elections, in September 2019, and in the second important resignation after the former manager of the Bogotá Metro Company (EMB), Andrés Escobar Uribe , will announce his resignation to the entity.

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Córdoba’s decision, which is based on personal reasons, is disturbing because although this year it achieved the formulation of the Development Plan and its approval by the Bogotá Council, by 2021 came the great challenge in terms of planning that was the process of the Territorial Ordinance Plan (POT), since the one of 2004 is still in force. It is worth remembering that the administration of Enrique Peñalosa presented it in the final section of his mayoralty and although everything was painted to be approved, in the end it was shipwrecked in the Council. For this reason, given the difficulties that have existed in approving the POT, Córdoba’s work was determined as the key to carrying out the new POT, but now the task will be left to the person who takes office.

Before landing in Claudia López’s cabinet, Córdoba had worked with the Attorney General’s Office in monitoring compliance with the peace agreement, in the institutional development program of the National Planning Department and was District Supervisor of Bogotá. Córdoba is a social worker at the Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca, a specialist in urban and regional planning at ESAP and a master’s degree in regional planning and public policies at CIDER at the Universidad de los Andes.

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