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The Councilor for Modernization of Administration, Urban Quality and Participation, José Guillén, today participated in the III International Conference on Landscaping and Arboriculture held in Valencia.

The City of Murcia has presented its project of gardening in the roundtable on 'The Management and Maintenance of Green Zones: Municipal Perspective' in which it has been highlighted that "the way to be followed by our administration for an optimal maintenance of our urban green infrastructure is the modernization and modernization of our parks and gardens.The only way to be able to optimize resources and costs in cities like Murcia, with 59 villages, is to be able to monitor in real time the work done by municipal brigades and companies awarded with the contract of maintenance, with a unique purpose that is to improve the quality of life of the Murcia through the improvement of their environment "

It has also been highlighted that "for years has been working in the implementation of irrigation automation systems in the new green areas and in which they are remodeled and managed to monitor from the municipal agencies the pluviometric changes and other changes in the weather that may affect the configuration of irrigation time for optimum use of water resources.

On the other hand, they explained that "participatory processes must be opened with the citizens before building new urban green infrastructures so that through the study of the population that is potentially going to be the user, the most correct use is generated and the best form is found protection of the plant material and the elements of civil works and coexistence among people of all ages. "

So we have to "choose recycled materials or special characteristics that we know have a greater durability and guide the new investments to the creation of gardens that allow healthy outdoor activities such as gardens of leisure, calisthenics circuits Gerontogimnasia or children's play areas that cover the needs of the entire population from the youngest to the most mature. "

It should be remembered that of the approximately 3,500,000 square meters of green areas in the municipality, more than 1,600,000 square meters belong to districts with more than 600 registered gardens and 23,000 trees in alignments.

In addition, the ratio of square meters of children's zones per inhabitant is the highest in Spain.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia