Conservation Plan of Sensitive areas in Adjuntas and Adjacent Municipalities – 2004
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Casa Pueblo designed a project of Regional Planning for the central area of the island, the Conservation Plan for Highly Sensitive areas in Adjuntas and Adjacent Municipalities.  Specialists and and technicians, members of the Ccommunity management Management Ccouncil of Casa Pueblo, and the graduate school of Planning of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) Rio Piedras Ccampus contributed to this project.  All the documents and digital blue prints were submitted to the Board of Planning on March, 2003.

After the Board denied the communitarian community-based proposal, an intense democratic campaign with thousands of endorsementssupporters was initiated locally, nationally and internationally.  In the public hearings held at Adjuntas, statements were given by chancellors of UPR Mayaguez, Cayey, Arecibo, Rio Piedras and Bayamon campuses, representatives of several municipalities, and many members and children of the general public.  A march in support of the Plan consisting of more than 400 students from Adjuntas in support of the Plan was significant enough for the Board of Planning to approve and amplify the Plan on October 27, 2004.

The plan Plan consisteds of 29,398.4 acres of land in 10 different municipalities and createeds the first Biological Corridor in Puerto Rico unifying Pueblo Forest with Guilarte, La Olimpia, Toro Negro and Tres Picachos Forests.  This plan protects hydrographic sources, rivers and lakes that supply potable water to more than a million and a half habitants and contributes to the island’s economic development.  In addition, it creates Conservation Districts with regulations of use for private properties of the region to protect forest areas with high biodiversity, historic and hydro resources, caves, archeological sites and scenery.