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No Gay Pride in Blanes
If you came to Blanes this past weekend expecting to find the Gay Pride 2010 festival, you were out of luck.
The city, which just last year declared itself to be ‘gay friendly’, denied organizers a permit saying that gay tourism cannot coexist with the family-friendly image Blanes wants to portray. Continue reading
Catalonia property owners may be forced to rent to low-income tenants
Many Catalonians cannot find affordable housing.
Building on the 2007 Law on Housing Rights Catalonia’s government is now looking at measures to insure that those with a poor credit history, unemployment problems, and/or low income will be able to find a suitable place to live.
Its proposals include possible enforcement of a measure already passed: forcing landlords to rent out property that has been sitting empty for too long. Continue reading
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Blanes fishing fleet seeks refuge from storm in neighboring harbor
With memories of the highly destructive Dec. 2008 storm in mind, fishermen in Blanes sailed their boats to safer harbors as the seawall of the Blanes harbor remains unsound.
Meanwhile Blanes, and the rest of Catalonia, experienced unusually heavy snowfall. Continue reading
Green light for Blanes’ urban planning committee
The Planning Commission in Girona, Catalonia, has given the green light to proposals by the local urban planning committees (plans d’ordenació urbanística municipal, POUM) of the Costa Brava towns of Roses and Blanes.
The plans call for the construction of 12.000 new homes, 5.000 of which are to be build in Blanes. Continue reading
Harbor of Blanes to be enlarged
The Harbor of Blanes is to be enlarged in a project designed to provide boats moored in the port with greater protection against winter storms.
The project involves construction of a new, longer outer breakwater. Continue reading
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