The president of the Urban Planning Management, Miguel Ángel Torrico, has announced the conclusions of a legal report entrusted to the General Secretariat of the municipal body on the legality of applying a moratorium to the approval of new tourist housing in the city.
He legal report rejects, according to PP councilor, that it is legal to apply the moratorium that groups such as Hacemos Córdoba or the PSOE have demanded in plenary, arguing that “arbitrary” measures cannot be adopted without an objective and concrete basis, and the document even states that innovation must be promoted in plenary. General urban development plan.
The last part of this report, to which ABC has had access, states that “legally feasible” suspend the granting of permits for housing for tourist use, but “must a justification must be written in advancewith studies and reports that are sufficiently motivated by the general interest, the objective and that provide legal certainty, proportionality and zoning.
The General Secretary of Urban Development Management hereby notes that, without prejudice to a regulation such as that which is now being drawn up by the municipal council, also on the basis of the requested criteria, “weighing up urban aspects such as the maximum number of homes” and the prior publication of the required criteria. Also consider that another way would be the innovation of the PGOU with a maximum period of three years.
In this sense, Torrico also announced that the City Council has already commissioned a more in-depth study on tourist accommodation and housing in order to be able to elaborate more precisely on the regulation that has already begun to regulate this phenomenon in the most saturated areas of Cordoba (according to recent data from the INE, the western part of the historic center and Campode la Verdad-Miraflores). The study would provide an up-to-date and accurate picture of this phenomenon in the city.
This research is carried out by the advisor Common roomthe same one written by Municipal Housing Plan of Córdoba and which carries out similar analyses. This work will serve as a basis for the establishment of the zoning plan in which regulatory measures will be taken based on the decree approved by the Junta de Andalucía in February, which obliged municipal councils to prepare these regulations.
Hacemos Córdoba spokesman Juan Hidalgo criticized this in Córdoba “tourism that seriously harms the population of Cordoba who live in areas such as the historic centre, Ribera, Campo de la Verdad. To achieve this, they have proposed measures such as levying a tourist tax, setting up a municipal register of tourist homes or applying the moratorium that the Urban Planning Legal Report has excluded.
Antonio Hurtadosocialist spokesperson in the city council, has joined the arguments of Hacemos Córdoba and has insisted on the moratorium on which he has asked the PGOU to modify if necessary. In this sense, Vox spokesperson Paula Badanelli has pointed out that we are facing “a problem that everyone in the world shares, an absolute saturation that also damages the economy. small company». The motion did not pass, but with a replacement amendment of the popular amendments.