Calle real Armenia. "We with the Secretary of Government, Dr. Gloria Cecilia García and the Planning Director, have expressed our concern about the number of casinos that one is in the commercial center of Cielos Abiertos and in general in the city and I understand that What they are doing is a trap. " Carlos Mario Álvarez Morales, mayor of the capital of Quindío, said.
Who also expressed their sentiment towards the Luck and Gamble industry, with the following: "I am annoyed by these businesses because they create a culture of gambling, addiction to gambling. My message is for people to make better use of their free time, to play sports, because the game is like many people say, 'electronic vice' ".
Since last year, an accidental commission was created by the presidency of the corporation, in order to investigate the process that have been carried out by casino operators during the last years to locate their businesses or casinos in the street named Carrera 14, Specifically in the sector called Open Skies Commercial Center or in Spanish Centro Comercial Cielo Abierto.
According to the POT (Plan de Ordenamiento Territorial/ Land Planning), casinos must be located in places that have specific characteristics, among them, there is one that indicates the permission to be established within a shopping center.
"The people who have set up casinos have taken advantage of the fact that the Carrera 14 in 2007 or so, in a draft agreement that they did, where they were given names to the streets, this one was called open street shopping center La Calle Real but this one does not comply with the characteristics of commercial center”
BACKGROUND
In the process, it was also analyzed and in accordance with Law 232 of 2005, if all the rules regarding land use, hearing intensity, time, location and destination issued by the competent authority of the municipality were met.
On that place is not possible because the Plan of Territorial Ordering, POT, does not allow it.
