The
banks of the Río de la Plata
once again as the
axis of a dispute
.
The City of Buenos Aires put the magnifying glass on land that has been owned by the
University of Buenos Aires (UBA) since 1961
.
Some of them are those located between Ciudad Universitaria and Parque de los Niños, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Nuñez.
They make up a bay, which
is used by three yacht clubs
.
The City understands that from 1961 to these years, the shoreline changed and that this situation
could allow the annulment of the cadastral plans of these lands and reclaim them
.
The UBA this week
published a resolution in the Official Gazette of the Nation
to make the conflict visible and vindicate the rights that, it assures, it has on those lands.
This controversy is concentrated in a very important extension of land: it would be
24.47 hectares
.
To have a dimension, the current Ciudad Universitaria Ecological Reserve - Costanera Norte has an extension of 23 hectares.
Chacabuco Park, 22.
The Núñez lands in dispute are occupied by naval clubs.
Photo Juano Tesone
From the UBA they explained to
Clarín
that "on February 9 they were notified that the Buenos Aires government decided
to deny ownership
of a part of the properties that belong to us. They are lands reclaimed from the river decades ago, long before what today was formed." is the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires".
In addition to a part of the land where some of the yacht clubs operate, the City would be claiming
land that is built
, they explained from the Rectorate.
"Part of Pavilion III of the Faculty of Architecture and Design and Urbanism and boundaries. In addition, of the sites where the Parque de la Memoria and the Ecological Reserve operate," they assured.
Specifically, the City would move forward with
the cancellation of a 1963 plan
.
According to the information published by the UBA in the Official Gazette -where it transcribes provisions of the General Directorate of Works and Cadastres Registry, DGROC- new measurements were made and the City understands that the land is not the same as it was in the 1960s;
that the coastline changed and that
reclaimed lands were annexed to the Río de la Plata
.
From the DGROC -which depends on the Secretary of Urban Development-, and always according to the resolution published in the Official Gazette by UBA, they understand that "the transfer of the property carried out by law 16,067 (the one of 1961, which granted the land to the University) clearly delimited the scope of this transfer, and in this sense it could not be understood that the land that could be won from the Río de la Plata, nor the river itself, had also been transferred to the UBA.”
Like its namesake, located in Costanera Sur, the Costanera Norte reserve was also founded on land reclaimed from the river.
Photo: Juan Manuel Foglia
The Attorney General -which exercises the representation and sponsorship of the rights, interests and defense of the City's heritage- understands that
a new survey of the land must be carried out
, basically to determine the exact coincidence -or not- with the current topographic reality of the property
In case of corroborating and verifying inconsistencies, the Attorney General stated that the plan should be cancelled.
Even, according to the resolution published in the Official Gazette by the UBA, the Attorney General
"estimates that 24.47 hectares of land were reclaimed from the river and could be claimed
. "
Among other things, the UBA objects that the former Municipality did not hold any rights over the Río de la Plata, its banks or the land reclaimed from the river, before the National Constitution of 1994 (when the Constituent Convention reformed the Constitution of the Argentine Nation and established an autonomous government regime for the City of Buenos Aires).
He also recalled that when these lands were delivered by law, in 1961, the domain over the rivers, banks, channels and lands
belonged to the National State
.
Memory Park.
Another of the agreements between the City and the UBA: the latter ceded the space for construction, but not the rights to the land.
Photo: Cecilia Profético.
And most importantly: it ensures that the law that endorsed the granting of these lands established that
the limits are introduced into the water
.
Is a new source of conflict UBA-CABA opening?
Sources from the Rector's Office of the University
hope that an understanding will be reached
.
"There is joint work with the Buenos Aires government that has been going on for years, from the reorganization of the entire Ciudad Universitaria environment to the creation of the Ecological Reserve. Beyond this round trip, in which Justice will intervene, we take it for granted that we will reach an understanding," they explained.
The City did not provide information on the case.
They only told
Clarín
that although "there is no intention of coming into conflict with the UBA,
it is clear that Justice will have to intervene
."
The Naval Center, one of the lands that form the almost 25 hectares in claim.
Photo Juano Tesone
UBA authorities expressed their
surprise at this situation of conflict
: "In these 60 years, the City has sent appraisals of the property, which has a total of 129 hectares. We have always paid the real estate tax and there have never been any problems
or doubts
."
The history of these lands is as follows:
since 1961, the land has been owned by the UBA (a law replaced the cession decree signed by President Arturo Frondizi in 1958).
The plans were registered in 1963 in what was the Municipality of the City of Buenos Aires.
Memory Park.
The City included these lands for the "Young District."
She had to back off;
the lands belong to the UBA.
Photo: Cecilia Prophetic
The UBA received them with infrastructure and in use, because the Argentine Navy had a dock there.
In fact, it is
the Navy that gives a precarious use permit to the CUBA club
, which inaugurates this headquarters in September 1959. According to official information from the club, by 1960 it had 70 boats moored;
Today he is 167.
Besides CUBA, there are two other clubs:
Liceo Naval and Centro Naval
.
In the case of the Liceo, in 1962 the Navy granted it the use of a part of the bay with moorings.
And in 1988 he granted it a precarious use for free.
As for the Naval Center, it has had a precarious permit since 1990, onerous, which means that the club should carry out works and leave them to the owner of the land.
But it
was not until 2019 that the transfer of the lands was made effective
with an agreement signed by UBA and the Navy (endorsed by AABE, State Assets Administration Agency).
That same year, the Rectorate of the UBA reported that they were going to start a series of meetings with the clubs.
The UBA intended to recover them for their use.
Even in 2020, he intimidated the clubs to evict the land
.
This conflict is going through the courts and is being processed before the Court of First Instance for Federal Administrative Litigation No. 1. The clubs are still fully operational, not only the moorings, but all the sports and even social activities, because there are restaurants, bars and party rooms for rent.
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