Regulations and allegations
Information on the regulations currently being adapted to give the project a location and the allegations made against them.
Modification of the Partial Territorial Plan (PTP) for the Functional Area (F.A.) of the Gernika-Markina area
The central objective of this document is the modification of the Partial Territorial Plan (PTP) for the Functional Area (F.A.) of the Gernika-Markina area (currently Busturialdea-Artibai) in order to define the location of a unique cultural site in Urdaibai.
The current PTP for Gernika-Markina was definitively approved by Decree 31/2016, dated March 1, by the Basque Government.
It should be noted that this F.A. is currently called Busturialdea-Artibai, in accordance with the provisions of the Territorial Planning Guidelines (DOT) approved by Decree 128/2019, dated July 30, by the Basque Government. The current PTP includes the possibility of providing Sukarrieta with a specific cultural facility to stimulate the region’s economy. This provision did not contain specific information, whereas this initiative to expand the Guggenheim Museum (GMH) does, specifically mentioning the urban industrial lands in the municipalities of Gernika-Lumo and Murueta, connected by a route that runs through non-developable land in Forua and Kortezubi—circumstances that justify this modification.
This document for modifying the PTP has been drafted by the Land Planning Section of the Provincial Council of Bizkaia (DFB), although the part related to the strategic environmental assessment will be assigned separately.
THE CURRENT PTP DOES NOT LEGALLY ALLOW FOR THE GUGGENHEIM URDAIBAI MUSEUM PROJECT.
Supramunicipal agreement signed between DFB and the municipalities of Gernika, Murueta, and Forua.
Public domain resolution of the Coastal Law
On October 8, 2021, the Provincial Council of Bizkaia (DFB) submitted an official request to the Ministry for the Ecological Transition (MITECO), asking to reduce the coastal protection easement from 100 meters to 20 meters along the 950-meter stretch between points M-87 and M-124.
Although the resolution was signed on October 19, 2023, it was published on November 21, and it states that the DFB’s request has been approved. Thus, the Ministry for the Ecological Transition has confirmed that the coastal easement protection of the “former shipyards” in Murueta has been reduced.
Until now, the current Coastal Law prohibited construction within 100 meters of the coastline, which made it unfeasible to build the future Guggenheim Museum on the agreed site—the Murueta shipyards.
Now, they face one less obstacle in achieving their goal, although they still need to change the land use designation of the plots. This is the next step they are working on, through a modification of Murueta’s General Urban Development Plan.
Modification of Murueta`s General Urban Development Plan
As mentioned in the previous section, one issue is securing a space to locate the museum, and another is ensuring that the land use designation of the plot is appropriate for housing a museum.
The land occupied by the shipyard is currently zoned for industrial use, whereas the designation required to locate a museum should be for public facilities (equipmental).
How can this change in land use designation be achieved?
By modifying the General Urban Development Plan (PGOU) of the municipality of Murueta.
The proposed new PGOU was made public on October 9 in the Official Gazette of Bizkaia (BOV), and along with the PGOU, the Strategic Environmental Assessment (EAE) was also presented.
Source
Murueta begins changes to its urban plan to accommodate the Guggenheim (EL CORREO)
Plazo para presentar las alegaciones: 11 de diciembre.
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