New city rules in Almeida: housing of less than 40 square meters is prohibited.

The Council of Government Comunitat de Madrid on Wednesday approved changes to the General Urban Planning Plan (PGOU) of the city of Madrid, which was created in 1997.

The main novelty is that new residential buildings being built in the capital can now not have a floor area of less than 40 square meters (previously there was a limit of 25 square meters), effectively putting an end to the so-called "mini-apartment".

Madrid Mayor José Luis Martínez-Almeida drafted the urban planning changes, which were approved by Madrid City Hall in July. The regional government then had four months to confirm or reject this new approach, which finally received approval from Ayuso. The new urban planning regulations should be''submitted again to the mayor's office for final approval.

Thereafter, to be recognized as housing, the prerequisites are a living-dining room, kitchen, bedroom and bathroom with a usable floor area of at least 40 square meters, not including terraces, balconies, balcony extensions, bay windows or dryers.

The new rules also regulate "coliving" (housing with shared spaces) and "cohousing" (residential communities that utilize certain services, facilities and activities).

For "colliving", the minimum living space must be 15 square meters, with a minimum of 10 square meters per person if more than one person lives there. Common areas such as the living-dining room, kitchen and washing and drying area''short-term accommodation (VUT), it remains illegal to rent short-term apartments that do not have separate access from the street, that is, most of them.

The president of Comunitat de Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, demanded that the organizers of Tuesday's unrest in Madrid be "arrested" and''in PGOU.