Lloret de Mar‘s Municipal Plenary yesterday approved amendments to the Ordinance on Civility and Civic Coexistence to include a year-round ban on smoking or the use of electronic cigarettes or similar devices on beaches and bathing areas designated as smoke-free zones. Exempted are the terraces of beach bars when their operators so decide and the seafront promenade. The modifications were approved by 21 votes after considering the amendments made by the different municipal parties. After this initial approval by the Municipal Plenary, a period of 30 days of public exhibition is opened and, once the corresponding allegations have been resolved, the definitive approval will be given and the entry into force of these measures in an estimated time of about 2 months.
The Mayor of Lloret, Adrià Lamelas, stressed that “with this proposal we are working towards a friendlier and more sustainable Lloret that preserves the environment and the right of citizens to enjoy a cleaner public space free of smoke and cigarette butts, as well as preserving public coexistence and health”.
The Ordinance on Civility and Civic Coexistence, approved in 2012 and last amended in 2018, will also incorporate two further modifications. On the one hand, a ban on stag and hen parties, which disturb the peace and quiet of Lloret’s residents and portray an image of the destination that is not in keeping with the city model we are working towards. On the other hand, the modification of queue management in nightlife establishments: once it comes into force, owners and their staff will ensure that, outside their establishments, there is no unnecessary accumulation of people or queues that cause noise or disturb the rest of the neighbourhood. The Ordinance stresses that this obligation will be of particular importance in the municipality’s Special Regime Acoustic Zone (ZARE), where, at night, queues on the public highway to access activities or premises with public concurrence will be subject to municipal authorisation to occupy the public highway (and the corresponding tax). The councillor for Public Safety, Jordi Martínez, remarked that “these modifications were agreed in various meetings with the government team, other municipal parties and the municipality’s business associations”.
