Overview

• The emergency land-use law was approved on July 7 with votes from Partido Popular and Vox despite unified left-wing opposition
• New rules impose two-year administrative deadlines for building permits that previously took over a decade to process
• The measure unlocks urban and urbanizable land and allows councils to convert rural transition zones without exhausting existing development sites
• Strategic residential projects must reserve at least 50% of units at capped prices and meet quotas of 30% for youth and 10% for public employees, restricted to residents with five years of registration
• An amnesty legalizes pre-1991 constructions in the Sierra de Tramuntana and has prompted a Constitutional Court appeal alongside sustained neighborhood protests