Less parking lots at the apartments. The government is preparing an amendment to the regulations

The government is planning abolishing the obligation to build a specific number of parking spaces accompanying the construction of residential buildings as part of a housing investment implemented on the basis of the so -called housing law, i.e. the Act of 2018 on facilitations in the preparation and implementation of housing investments and accompanying investments – results from the draft of the Act on the Act on social forms of social development of housing and some other acts adopted by the Standing Committee of the Council of Ministers.

The project prepared by the Ministry of Development and Technology assumes, among others Typeting two provisions of the special act. The first provides that for a housing investment the minimum number of parking spaces is at least 1.5 times the number of apartments provided for in this investment.

The second regulation, which would be repealed, provides that for a housing investment located in the area of ​​downtown building, the minimum number of parking spaces is at least equal to the number of apartments in this investment.

The project also assumes that The commune council in urban standards can determine the number of parking spaces for a given housing investment. Currently, the local government may determine the number of places, provided that it is greater than those resulting from the Act.

In the justification to the draft act amending the Act on social forms of development of housing and some other acts, it was indicated that the current wording of the provisions “limits the possibility of modifying this indicator by the municipality and prevents it from adapting it to local conditions in a given town, taking into account, for example, the location of the investment area, the degree of development of public transport, or bicycle road networks, as is set in local development plans spatial “.

The provision repealing the provisions of the “housing specialty” specifying at the national level the minimum rate of parking spaces was also included in the original draft amendment to the Act on special solutions related to the removal of the effects of the flood, which was published in October last year, but it was ultimately removed from the project.

At the end of October last year The Minister of Development and Technology Krzysztof Paszyk announced that the solution tolerateing the obligation for developers to build a specific number of parking spaces disappeared from the draft amendment to the flood act. According to him, the regulation went to the project by mistake, not by deliberate action.

– There are sometimes ill -considered decisions in this regard, but I led to the fact that this solution disappeared immediately after such information reached me. I think that it was not a deliberate action, it was a mistake in placing this provision in a package of provisions in which such a solution was absolutely not to be found. The case was explained in advance, resolved and closed – said the head of the ministry.

Maciej Berek, head of the SKRM boss, said about the adoption of the Council of Ministers' The project provides, among others Increasing the maximum limit of the state budget expenditure, to the amount of which the subsidy fund can be fed for the social and municipal construction program (BSK), as well as the program of social renting (SBC). The planned amendment also proposes to determine the maximum limits of budget expenditure for this purpose by 2030.

The planned amendment provides an extension of the current SBC program by 1 year – the final date for submitting applications is to be postponed from 2024 to 2025 with a simultaneous increase in the SBC program budget from PLN 4.5 billion to PLN 7 billion. “This is the amount corresponding to the demand for feedback and which will allow for even development of housing for rent” reported to investors from the SBC program ” – the authors of the project pointed out to assess the effects of regulation.

In addition, the maximum limit of state budget expenditure provided for in the project intended for the subsidy of the subsidy fund is to amount to nearly PLN 6 billion in 2026; in 2027 – PLN 6.86 billion; in 2028 – PLN 8 billion; in 2029 – PLN 9 billion; In 2030 – PLN 10 billion.