Mijas definitively approves the ordinance to receive historical urbanizations

The Mijas City Council has definitively approved the Municipal Ordinance regulating the reception of historical urbanizations, according to the announcement published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Málaga on September 16, 2026. The agreement is disseminated through Edict 3431/2026, within the city council announcements section of the provincial gazette. The regulation establishes the conditions under which the municipality will assume the reception of historical urbanizations within its municipal boundaries.

The publication of the definitive approval closes the municipal processing of the ordinance. This administrative formula indicates that the text has already passed the initial approval phase and the mandatory public exhibition process prior to its entry into force, meaning that the document published in the gazette is the definitive text of the local regulation.

The announcement is inserted in the third section of the gazette’s summary, reserved for the province’s city councils, and shares a number with other municipal edicts of the day, including those from Marbella, Algarrobo, Almogía, Nerja, Ronda, Vélez-Málaga, and Torremolinos.

What the ordinance regulates

The purpose of the ordinance is the reception by the Mijas City Council of the municipality’s historical urbanizations; that is, the act by which the council formally assumes these urbanized areas once the conditions determined by the regulation itself have been met.

With the definitive approval, the Mijas City Council now has its own stable regulatory framework to organize these procedures, instead of resolving them on a case-by-case basis.

The text published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Málaga constitutes the official reference for the approved regulation and the document to which both the municipal administration and interested parties must refer.

Who it affects

The ordinance directly impacts the owners and homeowners’ associations of the municipality’s historical urbanizations, who are the parties called to intervene in the reception files.

• Owners of plots and homes located in historical urbanizations in Mijas.
• Homeowners’ associations and conservation entities of these urbanizations.
• Mijas City Council, as the receiving administration of the urbanizations.
• Developers and urban planning entities linked to the affected urbanizations.

The reception of an urbanization implies the transfer to the municipality of the conservation and maintenance obligations that until that moment fell upon the owners and conservation entities, which explains the interest of the homeowners’ associations in the content of the regulation.

Processing and official publication

The announcement of final approval is published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Málaga corresponding to September 16, 2026, in the city councils section, under the reference Edict 3431/2026.

• Issuing body: Mijas City Council.
• Regulation: Municipal ordinance regulating the reception of historical urbanizations.
• Status: final approval.
• Publication: Official Gazette of the Province of Málaga, September 16, 2026, city councils section.
• Official reference: Edict 3431/2026.

The Mijas City Council has also processed other files during the same period, including the initial approval of a modification of budget credits (Edict 3412/2026) and the call for the Sports Excellence Awards (Edict 3432/2026), which places the ordinance within the framework of the council’s ordinary regulatory activity.

Impact for residents

The entry into force of the ordinance provides owners and communities of historical urbanizations in Mijas with a regulated procedure to request and obtain the municipal reception of their urbanizations, with conditions known in advance. For the municipality, it means incorporating urbanized areas into its assets and maintenance that were previously managed through other means, with the consequent effect on planning and local services.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Málaga, September 16, 2026, section 3 (City Council), summary page of the edition (official reference: Edict 3431/2026).