The Administrative Litigation Court of San Isidro ruled to suspend permits for all new high-rise developments in Tigre until the municipality updates its urban code and discusses growth regulations with environmental, urban, and social impact studies.
According to the case file, the municipality was ready to approve 103 new high-rise projects without the mandatory studies on their impact on existing infrastructure. The judge also criticized municipal decree 935/25, signed in September by Mayor Julio Zamora, which only imposed a halt on construction above eight floors (27 meters) as a preventive measure, but without a clear technical basis to differentiate the impact of these towers from shorter buildings.
The measure does not affect projects that already have permits and are under construction.
According to the Argentine News Agency, in the resolution of the Administrative Litigation Court No. 2, the municipality itself acknowledged that the high-rise growth occurred under an urban code over 30 years old, without planning corresponding to population growth or pressure on basic services.
However, the ruling obliges the municipality to accelerate the process and to discuss in the Deliberative Council a regulation that balances real estate interests with residents' demands for services, environment, and quality of life.
In its ruling, the court emphasized the lack of public hearings, the absence of an urban code update plan, and repeated residents' demands. Arguments included in the file were warnings from specialists and residents about the saturation of sewers and water networks, traffic collapse on access roads and main avenues, and the opacity of the licensing processes for new towers.
The ruling orders the municipality, during the suspension, to advance in the creation of a new Urban Code that includes studies on service capacity, population density, and the protection of wetlands and sensitive areas.
From Zamora's circle, the official response was that the municipality was already working on a transitional scheme for building height limits and that the goal is to "order the urban development of Tigre" without stopping investment.
The ruling is valid until the Deliberative Council approves a new regulation or, at most, for six months.
The case originated from an environmental injunction filed by the elected councilor Sebastián Rovira (Fuerza Patria) together with the organization Compromiso con Tigre, which has been demanding a comprehensive review of the real estate development model in the northern part of the conurbation.
