Many of the terraces on

Calle Ponzano

have their days numbered.

Chamberí's quintessential gastronomic street will see how in the coming weeks the City Council will proceed to reduce 80% of these spaces located in parking bands, the vast majority of those that have emerged in this enclave with hardly any space on the sidewalks, being included among the saturated areas by the new Terrace Ordinance.

Those that must immediately remove a large part of their tables, which had gained from the expansion after the pandemic, according to the new municipal regulations.

In total, the city registers 31 saturated areas, with Salamanca being the district, with 11, which accumulates the most

.

They are followed by Centro and Chamartin, both with six;

San Blas-Canillejas, with 3;

Ciudad Lineal, with 2, and Retiro, Chamberí and Fuencarral-El Pardo, with 1. But in addition, the Consistory has initiated inspections in another 24 areas that could also enter the list of saturated, especially in Latina and Chamberí, with eight areas in study each.

That's where Ponzano would come in.

The central road has been mired in a dispute for months between the hoteliers, who defend their business, and the neighbors, who ask for respect for the night's rest.

So much so that the Consistory has been forced to intervene.

At the request of the councilor president of the district, Javier Ramírez, of the PP, as confirmed yesterday by Begoña Villacís, the municipal government

will proceed to reduce 45 Covid terraces in parking bands until leaving them only at 20%

.

The new regulation, approved just two months ago, establishes that these may not exceed 40% of the car park space.

But in Ponzano the regulations will be more restrictive.

In addition, there are

two especially problematic areas - the one that goes from Santa Engracia street to Ríos Rosas and the one between Maudes and Raimundo Fernández Villaverde

- because both are classified as environmentally protected areas.

"I think it is good that we have managed to reconcile the two interests, those of the hoteliers and those of the neighbors," Villacís pointed out during the presentation of the online map of the city's saturated areas.

The section between Santa Engracia and Ríos Rosas will see 33 of its terraces reduced by 80% in the coming weeks, and

when the sidewalk expansion works planned for that area begin next summer, they will disappear completely

.

Will this extension of sidewalks serve so that all of them return later, in the summer of 2023, to their current state?

As stated in the Consistory, no.

Traders may request licenses, but the Territorial Coordination Area, dependent on the Vice Mayor's Office, can veto them and not grant them.

The situation of the section that separates Maudes and Raimundo Fernández Villaverde streets, also environmentally protected, is different.

There will be 12 terraces that will remain at 20%.

And they will not have any option to return to the current state.

In fact, in 2023, as established by the new municipal regulations, as they are Covid extensions, they must be completely withdrawn.

Although Ponzano has become the great paradigm of neighborhood disputes over terraces, it is not the only area of ​​the city affected by saturation.

In fact, the district of Salamanca is by far the one with the most saturated areas:

Jorge Juan street, Juan Bravo street, Ayala street, Ortega y Gasset street, Ramón de la Cruz street, Conde de Peñalver street , Calle Alcántara

... All of them must begin to remove chairs and tables and return the spaces of the parking bands.

Also in the Central district, especially in

the surroundings of the Plaza Mayor by Cuchilleros street and by the San Miguel Market

, there is a saturation of terraces, according to data from the Madrid City Council.

As detailed yesterday by Councilwoman Silvia Saavedra, in charge of Territorial Coordination, the District Boards will be able to initiate joint planning studies, which will be submitted to the Terraces Commission,

assuming that each one will have the capacity to regulate the granting of authorizations, the aesthetic homogenization, the establishment of schedules or the recommended number of tables

.

That process is the one that will be followed in Ponzano street and that, according to the Consistory, has a maximum execution period of three weeks until it is final.

That is precisely the time that remains for the massive practice of

ponzaning

in the open air.

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