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| New Bill Wants Change To Park Boundaries |
| Friday, 20 June 2008 | |
 (TBT) A new bill that would alter the limits of the Las Baulas National Marine Park in Playa Grande has been introduced to the Legislative Assembly.The bill titled Authentic Interpretation of Article 1 of Law No 7524 was introduced by the opposition Social Christian Unity Party’s Jorge Eduardo Sánchez Sibaja, and sent to the Assembly’s Permanent Environment Commission. It was published this week in the government’s official organ, La Gaceta. Arguing that it is the exclusive right of the Legislative Assembly to interpret the laws and their limits, the text contains a textual reference to a motion on file in which the legislators apparently clarify that the 125 meters from the 50 meter public zone “should be understood as meaning ‘mar adentro’ or out to sea.” “I believe this issue with the park and the expropriations have been used by foreign groups erroneously,” Mr Sánchez said. Although the Attorney General’s Office had interpreted aguas adentro to mean from the water inland, Mr Sánchez said the Attorney General made a mistaken interpretation of the law. “The Attorney has the knack of interpreting laws, when it is the exclusive right of the legislator,” he added. “Let others not tell us that we don’t know about conservation,” he said, “let others not come with concepts from elsewhere, unknowing of ours.”  A new bill that would alter the limits of the Las Baulas National Marine Park in Playa Grande (for more details please read here) The zoning plan, titled Reglamento de Zonificación Distrito Cabo Velas, approved by the then council of Santa Cruz in July 2006, allowed condominiums, houses and even small hotels of up to 20 rooms to be built on land bordering the Las Baulas National Park. Playa Grande land owners have battled the State for years, challenging the wording of the Law that created the Las Baulas National Marine Park, one of the Pacific Ocean’s primary nesting sites for the critically endangered leatherback turtle. Environment and Energy Minister Roberto Dobles said in a recent interview that he was expecting the full ruling of the Constitutional Court regarding the revoked zonification plan approved by the municipality of Santa Cruz. Comments (0)
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