The Parish Council of Santa Bárbara de Nexe has advanced with the process of classifying 129 side roads, that is, intended for rural traffic, «without car traffic», a way of preventing roads that are used by the population from being attached to private properties .
According to the Parish Council of the municipality of Faro, this procedure was launched after this municipality detected «that the classification of the secondary roads in its territory was not carried out».
This is, he explains, a responsibility of the parish councils, since the first Portuguese road plan of 1945, which advocates «that the Municipal Councils classify as municipal roads "that are intended to allow car traffic" and that the Parish Councils classify as vicinal roads those “which are normally intended for rural traffic”, without car traffic».
Thus, the Board of Santa Bárbara de Nexe launched a procedure with a view to this classification, «after intense and extensive field work and analysis of the map of the municipal road network of Faro, of paths registered in the Geometric Register of Portuguese Rustic Property and of military charts prior to 1964, with 129 neighboring paths having been identified and submitted for classification».
«The classification of these 129 side roads as real estate and roads in the public domain of the Parish of Santa Bárbara de Nexe will also make immediate opposition to actions of appropriation by neighboring owners, which have sometimes been occurring, as well as integrating them into the System in the future of Geographic Information of the Municipality of Faro will facilitate their protection as public roads, including in municipal urban planning licensing», concludes the municipality.
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