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 News from Around Banderas Bay | July 2006 
Lazaro Cardenas Park Update
 Adriana Romero - PVNN
| | Citizens gather to protest the destruction of Lazaro Cardenas Park. | 
| | Even as the protesters meet, the city moves in with heavy machinery. |
As one of many locals worried and concerned about the future of our town, I attended another public meeting last Friday, dedicated to saving Lazaro Cardenas Park. The meeting was one of the various gatherings that have been taking place recently, the consequence of an agreement created and signed in 2004 by the Municipal Government.
This agreement, stating that public areas, mainly parks, should be transformed into parking lots and the possible creation of rental spaces within these projects for street vendors, was never completely made public.
The consequences of this agreement are already creating a huge ecological and sociological impact on the future of our community. (Like what happened with the dislodging of Hidalgo Park almost a year ago.)
Since then, we might have asked ourselves, "Shouldn't governmental projects and resolutions involving drastic changes to our city, being public domain, also be made public?"
In the case of Lazaro Cardenas Park, the municipality granted the concession to Promotora de la Propiedad Raíz de Jalisco SA de CV, giving them the right to take action in the realization of this project. The parking lot will have 178 parking spaces.
According to Municipal Syndicate Miguel Angel Yerena Ruíz, the city will (contemplate) the possibility of creating 100 square meters of Botanical Gardens in order to preserve the existing Parota trees inside the construction area's perimeter.
The persistence of local authorities, demonstrated by removing a few street vendor shacks late Friday night and the arrest of the "Tree Man" Javier Fabríz, lead us to think that, once again, the city authorities are taking advantage while we are sleeping.
Perhaps tomorrow we will wake up facing a different and desolate scenery. It just doesn't seem to matter that the absence of green areas and indigenous flora and fauna will be missed by both the locals and the people who visit Puerto Vallarta. |
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