The residential development includes 68 apartments designated for rental for a minimum of ten years, while the rest will be market-rate homes. The project also includes a residence for elderly people and another for healthcare workers, resident doctors and the relatives of patients who have travelled to Zaragoza. In exchange for the development, the company will pay the City Council 22.43 million euros, which will be added to the municipal land holdings to fund housing policies.
VOX AMENDMENTS
One aspect that changed during the planning process, following requests from the Vox municipal group, was the provision of parking spaces, after demands were made to improve the project’s conditions. The developer will have to provide 20% more private parking spaces than legally required for the homes and the two residences. These will be joined by around 75 public spaces at street level, linked to the opening of a new road connecting Paseo de Isabel la Católica with Calle de Don Álvaro de Bazán.
The plan was approved despite criticism from the PSOE and Zaragoza en Común, which questioned the residential development model proposed for the site. In fact, ZeC councillor Suso Domínguez went so far as to describe the project as a "property windfall".
