ERC and PSC have agreed at the last minute on amendments to validate the decree law that regulates housing for tourist use. The negotiation, until this morning, has led to a considerable reduction of the initial approach of the Territori department. “Some modifications are not to our liking, because they leave doors open,” acknowledged the councilor, Ester Capella, who however assured that “the text maintains the initial spirit; Our objective is to remove housing from tourist use to residential use "and she has warned that "we will work to ensure that the decree returns to where it should never have come from."
The regulation approved in November imposed a maximum limit of ten apartments for tourist use per 100 inhabitants and obliged owners to obtain an urban planning license within a maximum period of five years and renew it every five years. The agreement now signed between ERC and PSC, to make possible the validation of the decree law, eliminates the maximum of ten homes and leaves it to the City Councils "who decide on the need to establish or not a limit in accordance with their reality." Regarding the time limit of the license, the five years are maintained but “automatically extendable as long as the urban planning approach allows it.”
The agreement also reduces the application of the regulation to the 140 municipalities in which the residential market is considered to be stressed and not to the 262 municipalities that Territori had planned, by also including the localities where the concentration of tourist homes can break the balance. of the urban environment. The decree establishes that it will be each municipality, and not Territori, who defines whether this is their situation.
The agreed modifications will be incorporated into the text to definitively approve the bill, at the latest in the last plenary session of the month of next March.
