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Micol highlights the incoherence that "the City Council uses 'food trucks' in many of the events and markets it organizes, and instead tries to eradicate a traditional and entrenched sector

NOW MURCIA has asked the municipal government about the future of churros and waffles in the city, since in the plans of the zones of special acoustic protection of Murcia center it is indicated in section 4.1.1 that "The installation of street vendors (churros, waffles, etc.) on public roads ".

The councilor Angeles Micol notes that "the Popular Party must specify and detail this measure, which is not trivial, as it would suppress their livelihood to the families that live on this, while a business of great tradition in the municipality would be eradicated. and well received socially, it is not understood in any way the need to strike him down ".

The mayor says that "it does not make any sense to fight against noise and defend the rest of the neighbors, goals that we defend 100%, choose to kill the city and life on the street. the Mediterranean city model, which lives open to the street, with respect for the rest of the neighbors, without having to resort to drastic and unjustified measures ".

In this sense, Micol highlights the incoherence that "the City Council uses 'food trucks' in many of the events and markets it organizes, and instead tries to eradicate a traditional sector rooted in the municipality as is the sale of churros and waffles The seriousness of the matter is that we are not in the case of reducing the tables of a terrace, but to prohibit this business would be eliminated in its entirety, which would be a clear and unjustified measure.

Therefore, now Murcia has addressed the Councilor for Trade, Maruja Pelegrin, to obtain written reports on this prohibition.

The mayor adds that "in no case you can lose the perspective that with the positions of churros and waffles we are before a business subject, like any other hotel business, to schedules, sanitary and environmental legality, etc., and that It pays the stipulated taxes, that is to say, it is a perfectly regulated and legal sector, which fulfills its obligations like any other and that does not have to cause greater annoyances, if any, than the catering business that the City Council does. "

Micol criticizes that Ballesta "instead of having a city model, is dedicated to taking isolated measures that do not know what purpose they pursue".

He also complains that the ban on churros and waffles is approved by the Government Board "instead of submitting it to debate with the rest of the municipal groups that make up the Corporation."

Source: Ahora Murcia