This phenomenon, which has generated neighborhood complaints due to noise and flooding, involves approximately one hundred hectares of non-urbanizable land occupied by a hundred of these facilities. Most of them operate without a license or the Declarations of Community Interest (DIC) required for economic activities on non-urbanizable land.
The modification of the PGOU seeks to bring order to the situation, regularizing those parking lots that meet the requirements and preventing the installation of new ones until the process is completed. The councilor has pointed out that this measure is necessary for an airport that has reached two million passengers, and aims to preserve the landscape, protect residents, and offer legal certainty to businesses.
“"These are decades of inaction, and necessary for an airport that has reached 2 million passengers. Until now there has been no order or legal certainty. We must offer guarantees to entrepreneurs, we believe in economic freedom and business opportunities, but with order."
Since late 2024 and early 2025, inspections have been initiated by Urban Planning and Openings to document the conditions of these parking lots and submit reports to the Valencian Agency for Territorial Protection (AVPT), based in Elche. It is expected that some of these facilities will be closed, as the AVPT has powers to seal them or initiate sanctioning proceedings since they are on non-urbanizable land.
Among the corrective measures that will be proposed for regularization are vegetative screens, minimum required separations, and a minimum size of about 10,000 square meters. The draft modification is being finalized and is expected to be released for public consultation soon, with the goal of being definitively approved within one year from the start of the process.
