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NEWS: Lockdown in Barva de Heredia for possible Housing Construction Project

Block in Barva and Housing Project: Barva, Heredia. On Tuesday November 25 at night, about 300 residents of Lots Peralta, Santa Lucia, Barva center blocked by two hours, the road connecting the county with Heredia, annoyed by the claim of developing a social housing project in the community that would house at least 320 homes, from the slums of central canton of Heredia, whose municipality will seeks to eradicate.

These statements are attached to those that occurred in July and last August in the canton of Santa Barbara de Heredia, when hundreds of residents of this town appeared before the Local Government to oppose a similar initiative that would tried to encourage business and political sectors of the province, following the decision of the authorities locales del Cantón Central de Heredia de erradicar los precarios existentes en la zona de mayor plusvalía de nuestra provincia, los cuales han sido considerados por esas mismas autoridades como el más grande en centroamérica.

En idéntica dirección, aunque de forma no violenta, el 2 de setiembre anterior, millares de vecinos del cantón de San Rafael de Heredia, aprobaron la llamada "Declaración de Piedra Grande ", en la cual notifican a su respectivo Gobierno Local, así como a otras entidades relacionadas con el tema, cada una de las acciones que sus pobladores estarían dispuestos a impulsar en caso de que se insista to bring such developments to the area, particularly the negative impact that these projects could result in counties like San Rafael, located on the Barva aquifer, Colima Colima Superior and Inferior, fueling the province of Heredia and virtually all Central Valley.

To date, the agreements made by the rafaeleños in defense of water resources have already been officially notified the City of Canton, the Ministry of Housing and Human Settlements , the Ministry of Environment and Energy , to Social Affairs Committee of the Legislative Assembly , the Public Service Company Heredia (ESPH-SA) and the Costa Rican Chamber Construction (CCC), however, only ESPH-SA CCC and have formally responded to the residents of San Rafael de Heredia.

Referendum or referendum, was one of the tools that people had in mind to apply rafaeleña to oppose such initiatives, however, the recent law granting the right to communities was vetoed by the Executive , which will force the residents of this community go to other legal mechanisms, both in administrative and judicial.

not be ruled out, sending in the next weeks of similar statements to other cantons Heredian minded aquifer, in order to make common cause and defend the development of infrastructure projects, not only high-density housing, but also those other tourism development, agricultural and other nature over the years have been installed in areas declared by the state as inalienable since 1888. This in opposition to the attempts of the Executive to repeal or amend the Decree-Law which declared inalienable those areas.