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Homeowners Win Fight Against Illegal Bar
 PVNN
March 10, 2010
| | "This is a wonderful example of what we can accomplish when we work together and coordinate our efforts. We want the city to be better for all the residents, businesses and tourists together." - Gloria Palacios | |
There was a great deal of joy and satisfaction from the Puerto Vallarta homeowners and businesses with the wonderful outcome of their effort to close the bar that caused so many problems for all of the homeowners and the other businesses in the downtown area.
In short, they won their case against the bar named "Breezes" which was completely closed down by the city and put out of business forever as of Wednesday, February 10th, 2010!
Gloria Palacios, the new Regidora (meaning administrator, a position just under the Mayor) of the Puerto Vallarta city government said, "This is a wonderful example of what we can accomplish when we work together and coordinate our efforts. We want the city to be better for all the residents, businesses and tourists together."
Background
July of 2009 a bar named "Breezes" opened up across from the south end of the Malecon II Condominios in the public parking structure located on the corner of Morelos and Agustín Rodríguez in downtown Puerto Vallarta. They immediately started playing loud, live music at all hours of the day and night, breaking both noise laws and hours of operation laws.
The homeowners at the south end of the Malecon II Condominiums were especially impacted by this because the noise levels were mind-boggling. They could not sleep and their peace and tranquility was ruined. This bar also caused problems for the surrounding businesses as they chased away shoppers because of the public drunkenness, shouting and even men urinating against the parking structure because the bar had no bathroom.
Condo owners Michel Rubini, Lorraine and Charlie Allen, Joe and Ann Ardis, and others including Victor Zamorro (the owner of the Hotel Rio) called the beach inspectors almost daily to get them to come and stop this noise. The bar was completely unresponsive and ignored all the warnings and continued relentlessly disregarding their pleas to please stop this loud singing and shouting into the streets, etc.
In early November 2009 the administrator of the condominium building filed an official complaint on behalf of the building against the bar at the Puerto Vallarta City Hall. However, nothing changed and the noise continued. About 3 weeks later a local property manager, Claudia Goldman, filed another complaint against the bar at City Hall and again, nothing changed.
On December 1st Michel Rubini had a meeting with the bar owner, who said that they had no intention of changing anything and that the residents and other concerned individuals would just have to suffer. Rubini said that was the last straw and went and talked with Victor Zamorano, the owner of the Hotel Rio, and together they made a plan to stop this bar once and for all.
Part of that plan was to file another complaint with as many signatures as possible from the homeowners in the condominium building and also the Restaurant Vitea and the Hotel Rio, thereby demonstrating that they were all united against this bar. There was also a confrontation with the bar owner and manager on two occasions, one where the police were also called to maintain order. Still, the problem persisted.
Another local property manager, Rosa Maria Zuniga continued to work on this problem throughout January, 2010. Rosa did not fool around. She took the bull by the horns, talked to the businesses in the area to get their input and cooperation, coordinated the effort with Victor, went and talked with the new Regidora of the city government, Gloria Palacios, and secured a letter from her starting the process of ordering the closing of the bar.
Victor rewrote the complaint and on February 10th it was signed by most of the homeowners and at the same time, Victor took the complaint and secured the signatures of the various businesses in the area and that complaint was filed by noon.
By 3 pm, the order had been given and the bar was shut down. Rosa was the first to be informed because she was at City Hall, and then she told Victor Zamorano, Michel Rubini and Charlie and Lorraine Allen, who then started spreading the good news to all of the homeowners and businesses who cooperated in this effort.
Rubini found out about it at about 6:30 pm and said that "he was both amazed and delighted that the action and taken place so very fast. He never dreamed that the city government would move so fast, but Rosa explained to him that the new administration is very intent on making Puerto Vallarta a better place, and that this is a wonderful example that their intent is sincere.
The next morning, February 11th, Lorraine Allen, Rosa Zuniga, Victor Zamorano and Michel Rubini had an appointment in Gloria Palacios' office at City Hall to thank her for pushing this through the system so quickly. She told them that it was her pleasure and that if the businesses or homeowners have any other requests that she can help with, to please go and see her and that her door is always open to them.
Palacios agreed that the closing of this bar sets a precedent for the area, notifying any new businesses that this area is both a residential and a business area, and that "everybody has to respect each other's rights to live peacefully and in harmony."
It seems that things will be getting better from now on and the downtown area is definitely improving. Congratulations to us all!
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