What effects will the Cancun Urban Development Plan have?

Get an understanding of the benefits and drawbacks of the Urban Development Plan for the city of Cancun.

What effects will the Cancun Urban Development Plan have?
Learn the benefits and drawbacks of Cancun's urban development plan. Photo by Donato Gamboa / Unsplash

The Urban Development Plan 2022, tries to answer the question "How does the Urban Development Plan affect me? For example, the fact that Villas Otoch regions 259 and 260, a residential area where more than 40 thousand residents live, does not have a single public space and where the houses are 35 m2 was decided in an Urban Development Plaan.

This one contemplates the construction of 20-story buildings throughout the downtown area. This plan does not present the necessary technical opinions, among them, those that guarantee that there will be water supply and treatment of wastewater for that unimaginable volume of population, nor does it have the technical support of specialists, but like the others, it was approved in less than an hour by the current town council.

How will the Urban Development Plan affect us?

We are in danger of living in a few years the consequences of the lack of professionalism and the voracity of real estate groups that see in Cancun the hills of dollars in which they will sell each square meter and each floor and cannot see a balanced, inclusive, productive Cancun with public spaces full of life and cultural expression for young people, girls, and boys, living safely.

Those of us who participated in the citizen consultation that took place between July 25 and August 12 discussed a document that was provided to us and, oh surprise, the one that was approved includes POK TA POK as a strategic project that had not been included in politics.

Governance implies the participation of citizens and civil servants with open cards for the common good. When the cards are kept up their sleeves, it is called sloppiness, and that necessarily leads us to think that the purposes are not lawful.

Source: Celina Izquierdo commented for Radio Fórmula QR.