The City Council of Toledo has approved a new regulation that will govern the installation of tourist homes and apartments in the city. This regulation will affect all neighborhoods in the city, with the exception of the Cigarrales area.
In Cigarrales, the installation of tourist-use homes will be allowed, but tourist apartments will not be authorized, as they are not considered compatible with the primary residential use. In the historic center, tourist homes and apartments may only be located on the first floor of commercial-use buildings, and on the ground and first floors in other buildings, excluding those with equipment use.
In the rest of the city, there will be no restrictions on the location of single-family homes, while in multi-family homes, the implementation conditions for tertiary use established in the corresponding zoning ordinance will apply. Additionally, the ordinance prohibits the non-hotel use of residential properties in public housing.
It is established that when 12% of the housing stock in each census area of the historic center is allocated to non-hotel uses, it will be considered a saturated zone, and the opening of new tourist homes and apartments will be prevented. Tourist apartments will not be able to receive rehabilitation aid, nor will they be located in buildings that have received such subsidies, and they will have to pay the waste fee as businesses.
The regulation also specifies the minimum habitability conditions that tourist homes must meet, including minimum spaces for living, bedrooms, kitchen, bathroom, and hallways. These regulations aim to control the proliferation of tourist apartments in Toledo and ensure adequate coexistence in all neighborhoods of the city.
The new regulation has been approved before the end of a two-year moratorium that prevented the granting of new licenses, which has generated a rushed approval process. Once approved by the Regional Commission for Territorial Planning and Urbanism, the regulation will come into force and will be published in the Official Gazette.
