The Port Authority of Valencia moves the customs fence to the sea and leaves 230,000 square meters free for parks, gardens, sports areas, and centers for training and tertiary use.

The president of the port, Aurelio Martínez and the major, Joan Ribó beat and knock down the “wall” of Natzaret and celebrate the agreement reached.

València, January 14, 2019.- The mayor of Valencia, Joan Ribó; and the president of the Port Authority of Valencia (PAV), Aurelio Martínez; have signed today the collaboration agreement for the municipal use of the port public domain located in the eastern area of the Natzaret neighborhood (southern area of the service area of the port of Valencia). After the signing of the agreement, it has proceeded to demolish part of the wall that, until now, marked the boundary of the port with the neighborhood. It is a customs border (the port is a customs area) that the PAV has agreed to move towards the sea, thus releasing a large space that will be used for garden for citizen use in front of the Natzaret neighborhood. 

After the demolition of the wall, Aurelio Martinez has expressed his “satisfaction as a citizen, because the agreement of last week and the demolition of today will allow the park to enjoy all the neighbors and all people who come to the neighborhood of Natzaret”. He also wanted to highlight the important effort made by the PAV so that this wide area of Natzaret is intended for citizen use. “We must bear in mind – he recalled – that the port is an intensive consumer of land, in fact, we are undertaking the northern extension because we need to increase our surface. But this agreement that we signed today is an effort that was pending and that we are very pleased to be able to carry it out.”

The president of the PAV has also indicated that “the surface that is made available to citizens, 230,000 m2, is comparable to that of the Central Park. The Plan that we have prepared for this area will bring a lot of life to Natzaret because it is not only about the sports area or the park that will be available to citizens, which is very important; We have also reserved a small area for port use because we want to attract economic activity to the neighborhood. In addition, we want to put at the disposal of the Generalitat a zone so that a space of specific formation on port aspects and maritime subjects is created, of which the Comunitat Valenciana lacks”.

As the mayor of Valencia, Joan Ribó, has explained, after the demolition of the wall it will begin the provisional adaptation of the park, with landscaped area and sports facilities, so that the residents of Natzaret can make use of this new space as soon as possible.

Special plan East Nazaret: 

The special plan Nazaret is approved by the Board of Directors of the PAV and establishes the conditions of use and plot and building of the areas of management that are delimited and that include: 

Area 1, Turia Mouth Park: 86,296.08 m2 

Configured downstream from the Bridge of Shipyards, includes the new park of structural management and the old bed of the Turia, now channeled, with a total area of 86,296.08 m2. The design will incorporate the requirement to extend the Sech street, with a minimum width of 10 meters, urbanized as an internal pedestrian path of the park with a path parallel to the delimitation defined between the proposed areas 1 and 3. 

Area 2, Tertiary Use: 18,454.04 m2 

Located approximately on the site of the old facilities of ARLESA (later MOYRESA, and in its last stage also known as BUNGE) it is intended for tertiary use, and in its case also dotational, with an extension of 18,454.04 m2. The whole of the tertiary and multi-functional area is integrated into the urban fabric of Nazareth and falls into the Mouth Park of the Turia Garden.

In relation to the building, a buildable volume is proposed capable of housing the 25,000 m2t foreseen in the agreement, with the following land and volume management:

  • 3 rectangular blocks of maximum depth of 18 meters and 5 floors of maximum height, arranged so that their longitudinal development is parallel to the alignment of the interior free space that collects current planning and that is coincident with the direction of the Castell de Pop street in the final stretch between Mascarat street and Sech street.
  • At the northeast edge, a curved guide block is proposed, coinciding with the perimeter road layout, which is planned with a variable width that ranges between 20 m and 13.9 m and with a maximum height of 7 heights.

It is guaranteed that the buildable volumes are located perpendicular to the alignment of the new outlet Park and the visual permeability and routes from the consolidated Nazareth plot are maximized.

Area 3, sports facilities: 98,940.17 m2 

Sports and free space area of an area of 98,940.17 m2. This sports equipment partially occupies the existing green area to the south (Parque de Nazaret Sur) and represents the recovery of the site of a sporting endowment, a green border between the port activity and the Nazareth district, and also a dynamic center of uses and activities linked to leisure and sports.

The planning orders this area, a priori, in two differentiated urban plots in order to facilitate its management and subsequent execution:

  •  A first plot that occupies practically the entire scope of the area, with a floor area of 94,999.66 m2 whose main destination will be to house sports facilities outdoors. It provides the possibility of locating buildings linked to the main use, as well as other auxiliary constructions of support. In the plot of use ZV-DP (p3.1) is located the property protected by the general planning, “Benimar” building, which is included in the Inventory of joint buildings and architectural interest elements of the municipality of Valencia. The planned sports equipment that includes this area must execute the rehabilitation works of the Benimar building.
  •  The second plot has an area of 3,940 m2 to place covered sports equipment.

Area 4, Marblau equipment: 2.246m2

The planning of the plan incorporates the existing equipment located on Algemesí Street, currently in operation, managed by the City Council of Valencia through a use concession for youth center, popular university and garden museum in the old spa Marblau. The area destined to this area is 2,246 m2.

Área 5, Parque Sur de Nazaret: 8.375,86 m2

Area located on the southern edge of the area, with an extension of 8,375.86 m2. The criteria applied for this area seek to overcome the perception of the final stretch and the neighborhood of Nazareth. The ordination proposes two independent green areas and separated by a road that from the Algemesí street runs parallel to the southern exterior front of the covered sports facility to give access to a new parking area.

Green Corridor 

The Special Nazaret East Plan includes a cyclist and pedestrian green corridor that connects the Mouth Park with the current corridor that, running through the Logistics Activities Zone, comes to connect with the areas of Punta and Pinedo, with the aim of improving the continuity and the dimensions of the green corridor that surrounds Nazaret by the northeast, linking all the maritime towns from Malvarrosa to Punta and Pinedo. This bike lane will have a minimum width of 2.50 meters segregated from the road and the pedestrian area.