Spanish towns tighten parking rules with new mobility ordinances

The city council of La Orotava on Tenerife has drafted a new Traffic and Mobility Ordinance that will limit the maximum continuous parking time for a vehicle to one month, ban the sale of vehicles on public streets, reinforce controls over disabled‑parking spaces and give the local police stronger enforcement tools. The draft has been circulated to all municipal parties and will be published online for public comment before the full council votes on its approval.

In the Valencian town of Ontinyent, the governing coalition of Ens Uneix has faced criticism from the local socialist group over a recently enacted Mobility Ordinance that increases traffic‑violation fines, caps street parking at two hours, and raises fees for public parking. The opposition alleges that the measures have turned mobility policy into a revenue‑generation tool, noting a near‑60 % increase in fine income compared with the budget. The municipal government points to the opening of a new public car park in the Sant Jose district as evidence of investment in parking capacity, while continuing to enforce stricter penalties for illegal parking and traffic infractions.