The Urbanizing Agent, Myth and Reality ; Mitos y realidades del agente urbanizador
The author begins by declaring that the contribution to town and country legislation that the Law/6/94 forthe Regulating of Town and Country Planning Activities in the Autonomous Region of Valencia by whichmarket forces were brought into the private sector process of production to this end within the city has beenthat of a revulsive upon Spanish Town and Country Planning Legislation. The figure of the urbanizingagent as a recognized agent of the public administration, the experience gathered as a consequence of hisexercise of office and the results consequent upon this as within the Community of Valencia have throwninto relief the advantages and shortcomings of the same and this has led, in turn, to the creation of PublicOpinion on the matter that often marries ill with the facts of the same. The author feels this to be the upshotof the relative complexity that this novel figure represents as within the planning process at its tenderingphase, the three-fold relations as between the Administration, owners and urbanizing agents, the astonishingabsence of any approval expressed for the progress as within the regulating process that the figure mighthave represented over the last ten years and the expansive social and economic and urbanistic dynamics thathave marked this same period. All the foregoing circumstances are thought to have contributed to a distortedcomprehension of this figure's fact, this at times laudatory to a degree, at others dismissive to the same, butin neither case to an authentic and objective appraisal as such. The author thus felt in writing this paperthat there was a call for an analysis of this figure grounded upon contrasted and factual data and that thisshould seek the greatest objectivity and clarity of explanation possible. Only thus, he argues could a freshunderstanding from a warrantable standpoint of this novel figure be achieved despite the unconscious or wilfulmisunderstanding that has been treated with to date. ; La aportación al Derecho urbanístico español que supuso la Ley 6/94 Reguladora de la ActividadUrbanística valenciana con la incorporación de la competencia en el proceso privado de producción deciudad, ha comportado un revulsivo en el Derecho urbanístico español. La figura del agente urbanizador comodelegado público de la Administración, la experiencia de su puesta en servicio y sus resultados aplicativosen la Comunidad Valenciana, ha puesto de manifiesto sus ventajas e insuficiencias, lo que ha generado uncierto estado de opinión, no siempre acorde a la realidad. Sin duda la relativa complejidad que comporta lainnovación instrumental derivada de los procedimientos concurrenciales, la relación tri-fásica entre Administración,propietarios y empresario-urbanizador, la sorprendente ausencia de aprobación de su desarrolloreglamentario tras diez años de vigencia y la expansiva dinámica socio-económica y urbanística que vieneaconteciendo en estos últimos años, entre otras causas, han podido ocasionar una imagen distorsionada,unas veces excesivamente favorable, otras acusadamente contraria, a la auténtica realidad objetiva. En consecuencia,parece necesario exponer en este artículo un análisis apoyado en datos contrastados en la realidad,formulado desde la mayor objetividad y claridad expositiva posible, que permitan reenfocar, desde laóptica correcta, una imagen hoy, consciente o inconscientemente desenfocada.