Bars and restaurants without options to open terraces in the streets of Madrid due to the width of the sidewalks will have the option of taking out the same high tables with stools. This was stated this Wednesday by the Deputy Mayor, Begoña Villacís, after approving it last Friday by the Terraces Commission. According to the resolution, establishments may install "low capacity high tables" occupying "only" the band of furniture and / or services not intended for pedestrian circulation.

"The minimum width of sidewalk free of passage will be equivalent to that existing prior to the installation of the table and stools," according to the final decision of the commission, which will also allow "for the first time" the catering establishments in the municipal markets to enable terraces in public space. This will be an establishment in the Tirso de Molina market, in the Latina district, the first to place one since this Thursday.

In the case of high tables, they must always be accompanied by two stools that will be arranged parallel to the facades and must be occupied by the clients, since the resolution of the Terraces Commission establishes that "in no case" will people be able to Invade the pedestrian space on the sidewalk or stand around the tables .

The deputy mayor, Begoña Villacís, has framed these new measures "in the multiple efforts" of the Madrid City Council to reactivate the hospitality sector where she has highlighted the expansion of the terraces approved last June to parking bands and land areas, the suspension of the municipal tax for these spaces and the extension of the hours. "This City Council does not make a negative silence, it solves", the municipal number two has answered the question of the municipal group Vox in the Plenary of Cibeles.

As for the number of requests processed by the City Council on the placement of terraces, Villacís has explained that the municipal corporation resolved 55% in July and that 77% of them were favorable. Thus, 1,389 bars have been granted permission to enable these spaces, although 1,493 applications are still to be studied.

One of the main problems that the City Council has encountered in this process is the expansion of terraces in the parking areas, where of the 455 requests received by the establishments, only 53 could be resolved because "management is longer and takes more time. "

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