Overview
- The city council passed the motion with votes from PSPV, Compromís and Gent de Dénia, while PP and Vox opposed it.
- The concession tender covers roughly 6,971 m² at Tamarindos, with about 5,221 m² for leisure and dining uses and around 1,550 m² reserved for a dune cordon, and it caps building height at 9 meters with no discotheques allowed.
- Puertos defends the project as a regeneration of an artificial, degraded strip created over former asphalt and port rubble and says multiple private proposals triggered the legal obligation to open a public tender.
- Local leaders argue the project would harm dunes and native vegetation, increase exposure to storms and compete with existing hospitality, as environmental groups amplify opposition with recent protests of several hundred residents.
- Separately, the Consell plans administrative lawsuits to overturn new coastal boundary decisions by the national Costas authority that officials say affect thousands of beachfront properties in Dénia.