Puerto Morelos Fights BAD Urban Plan

[John]

Puerto Morelos Fights BAD Urban Plan
March 25, 2008

For the second time in a week, the community of Puerto Morelos has rejected the Urban Development Plan proposed by City Hall in Cancun. The original plan presented last week, called for the building of 60,000 homes housing 240,000 people. However, after the community rejected that plan, city officials modified the development plan to 43,000 homes for 174,000 people.

Some of the arguments used against the development plan were:
- Projected growth in areas of high flooding
- An increase in the population of a town that already lacks basic services
- Infrastructure that was promised 10 years ago has never materialized
- The proposed population growth would put great pressure on natural resources, a demand for a magnitude of water, which currently does not reach the 10,000 people living in Puerto Morelos - The Plan violates the limits of the Environmental Ordinance
- The project does not reflect the results of workshops carried out in the past with the Municipal Planning Institute
- The blueprints on the internet used for public consultation are not legible
- The plan violates international accords on the protection of coral reefs, mangroves, the beach and low jungle

[MWC]

I hope the citizens are successful in fending off bad development. It's such a neat little town; really the only one like it along the 307 corridor.

[SUNBABY]

I hope they can fend off ANY more developement. Can't at least one area be kept pristine? At the way things are moving, the whole Riviera will end up looking like a shorter version of cancun with wall to wall resorts. That will only cause a major pollution problem and eventually ruining the coastline and tourists will go somewhere else.

[Beth&Scott]

Such a shame. The town should remain how the residents want it: quiet and pristine. There is a small tid bit on the development project on http://www.vivapuertomorelos.com/index.html
in the the "whats happening" section. The website also noted that as of 3/8 the forum crashed and all registrations and posts were lost.

[rodman]

When the arrivals at CUN start evening off, or drop, the developments will drop off......suppy, and demand.....it may take a while, but it will happen....look out for the Chinese tourists in the future.......