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Following the 22 luxury cars, Lexus brand, that the judiciary is purchasing, without public bidding (sic), from the Toyota company to be used by the judges of the Supreme Court on their round trips to and from their houses, it is legitimate to ask if it is justified for the State to spend more than one thousand two hundred million pesos, which come from the pockets of those who pay taxes, for their drivers or themselves to drive those stylized cars through the crowded streets of the city of Santiago . In the opinion of this columnist, modesty was lacking in that acquisition.
Lamenting the sensitive death of Mr. Arturo Aylwin, a thoroughgoing Republican and Democrat, who brilliantly held the position of comptroller at the time when the Defendamos la Ciudad foundation began its self-imposed role of combating corruption, we inform that on Monday, February 12 Last year we met with Mrs. Dorothy Pérez, Comptroller General of the Republic, on which occasion some pending situations represented in her organization by the aforementioned foundation were analyzed.
We express to Mrs. Pérez that some curious decisions by her predecessor, Mr. Jorge Bermúdez, do not withstand any serious analysis, in order to demand that we, and by extension all those individuals who claim abuses and improper practices, that we should have active legitimacy , that is, having an interest of one’s own, in the matters that are reported to the supervisory body.
Obviously, before the new comptroller took office, the respective reconsiderations were requested, even more so, because all the accusations made against other services of the Administration were absolutely founded and if the Comptroller’s Office did not investigate them, permanent evils would occur in the 3 cases that We briefly make known.
The authorities of the municipality of Concón, for very understandable reasons, were “wrong” in classifying the existing roads in their Communal Regulatory Plan (PRC), since in that regulatory instrument numerous local roads are called trunks, which is a major error. that benefits only certain influential landowners who face them.
The study of the shadow cones of the real estate megaproject of 4 towers of 32 floors each, called Fundamenta in the commune of Ñuñoa, is poorly prepared, and it is unknown whether the Director of Municipal Works (DOM) reviewed it or not, before granting the respective approval. building permit, taking into account that for years, for the sector where the project is located, the maximum height reflected in the respective PRC is 15 stories.
In July 2022, the Tarapacá Coastal Intercommunal Regulatory Plan (PRICT) was published in the Official Gazette, which contains reasonable restrictive provisions, in terms of density, for certain flood-prone urban sectors and since this was not liked by the real estate industry, a former An official from the municipality of Iquique who has an outdated PRC from 1981, invented that the regulations contained in the aforementioned PRICT do not apply in that commune. With that ingenious argument, several companies have obtained permits to build tall residential and office towers.
All those, public agents as well as private actors, who operate in this area of matters, such as the DOM of Iquique itself, an official who at the time complied with the rules of the highest intercommunal instrument, know very well the express mandate of article 38. of the General Law of Urban Planning and Construction (LGUC) which says:
«lThe provisions of the Intercommunal Regulatory Plans, which constitute alterations to the provisions of the existing Communal Regulatory Plans, will be understood to be automatically incorporated into them as modifications. It is clearer to pour water on it, but curiously, former comptroller Bermúdez, unaware of this legal mandate, said that such regulations apply only to the next PRC, thereby, possibly unintentionally, favoring businessmen who ignore the topography of the coastal edge of Iquique to do more lucrative business.
Finally, we assume that the direct purchase of those ostentatious vehicles that would be parked most of the time will not be carried out, leaving our testimony that the role played by the Comptroller’s Office is vital to combat corruption.
By Patricio Herman