The residents of Ciudad de la Costa They alerted the legislators of the Environment Commission of Deputies for the consequences that could have at an environmental levelas well as for the quality of life of residentsthe installation of a event center called Place —a tent for shows with capacity for more than five thousand people— that will be installed in Roosevelt Park.
Now it is the residents of Ciudad de la Costa who oppose the installation of this tent and for this reason they came to Parliament to try to get legislators to intervene in the mattergiven the lack of responses that they say they have obtained from the Canelones Municipality.
A delegation that appeared as part of the Neighborhood Association of Ciudad de la Costa-Roosevelt Park (and which included among its representatives the substitute legislator for the National Party, Inés Monzillo, from Canelones) attended the Environment Commission to explain what the concern lies about the installation of Sitio, which won a tender from the Canarian mayor’s office to settle in a part of the park.
“We want the Municipality of Canelones to give explanations regarding how the permits are being granted and if they are really supported by environmental impact studies., what we suspect —because we have asked for them and they have never returned them to us— that are not made“, Rosario Fagúndez said in the commission, as recorded in the stenographic version of last Tuesday’s session.
Fagúndez described the park as the “largest lung that the metropolitan area and Uruguay has“and that’s why he asked to take care of him.
Another neighbor, Silvia Silveira, spoke about the environmental impact of a venture of this type installed in the park, similar to the one that existed years ago called Landia.
“What we experience today with small audiences is not the same as with the first shows.with the noise, the car lights, the people. All of this modifies the fauna of the environment. As for the soils, pedestrian and vehicular traffic will affect the absorption of water,” said the neighbor.
Ernestina Fontes, another neighbor who attended Parliament, said that “today the biggest concern” of the neighbors is the installation of the Sitio tentwho was already in Montevideo and “failed”, so he said that the neighbors They believe that “it will not be successful in that area either.”
The woman mentioned in the commission that there was a meeting between authorities of the mayor’s office and the company where the neighbors were told that “there was no such study carried out” either by the departmental government or by the promoters of Sitio, according to what was said in the session.
“There were more doubts than certainties about the cumulative impacts of these projects on the park’s ecosystem.“.
When asked how carp sounds exceeding certain decibels would be mitigated, Fontes said the answer they had gotten was that it would be done “by trial and error.”
“People with experience have told us that these sounds alter sleep; high-pitched sounds alter the cells of the ear and cause damage to sleep; low sounds that are very difficult to sustain after 65 decibels cannot be controlled; they generate vibrations that can cause fatigue,” he said.
The Broad Front deputy Sebastián Valdomir warned the residents that the claim, because it was a departmental matter, did not fall within the commission’s powers, but the legislators voted to send the stenographic version to the Canary Islands authorities.
This Friday, meanwhile, the first of Sitio’s shows will be held in the new venue: It will be a presentation by Swedish DJ Adam Beyer.
