Overview

• The Valencia City Council has extended the moratorium on new tourist apartment licences for an additional year to finalize urban planning reforms.
• A 45-day public consultation on amendments to the General Urban Planning Plan (PGOU) will begin next week, focusing on regulating tourist accommodations and hotel spaces.
• Proposed regulations include caps such as limiting tourist accommodations to 8% of registered residents in any district and restricting tourist dwellings to 2% of residential units per neighborhood.
• Additional measures aim to protect local commerce, reserving 85% of ground-floor premises in residential blocks for non-tourism-related businesses.
• Ciutat Vella remains exempt from the new citywide regulations, as it operates under its own pre-existing tourism housing rules.