Overview
- The Plenary gave final approval with PP voting in favor, Más Madrid and PSOE opposed, and Vox abstaining, after objections from neighborhood groups.
- The ordinance is designed to replace the prior regulation struck down by Madrid’s courts for the absence of an adequate environmental impact evaluation.
- Administrative procedures are simplified by eliminating redundant documentation and enabling simultaneous processing of applications.
- The sanctions regime is expanded and hardened, adding new serious offenses, upgrading others, and allowing license extinction for repeat violations, with examples including penalties for furniture noise and unlicensed elements.
- District boards gain stronger powers to set area-specific limits in saturated or heritage zones with resident and sector input and approval by the Commission of Terraces, while a handful of proposals were adopted from over 100 public submissions.