The Guadalajara Metropolitan Area (AMG) has a high demand for housing, but that does not mean that it can be built freely to satisfy this demand.
Yesterday, Monday, the new Territorial Planning Plan (Potmet) was approved, which reduces the area to be built or urbanized in the city. In other words, this policy has the objective of having a more orderly city, with a view to a sustainable future and better metropolitan coordination.
Why is construction being halted in areas of the AMG?
Patricia Martínez, head of the Metropolitan Planning Institute (Imeplan), said that this instrument establishes the bases to block new constructions, based on the document that was made in 2016. This represents a brake on constructions on a surface of 20 thousand hectares distributed in the nine municipalities that make up the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area (El Salto, Guadalajara, Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos, Juanacatlán, San Pedro Tlaquepaque, Tlajomulco, Tonalá, Zapopan and Zapotlanejo).
The restrictions were established with the objective of avoiding the excessive expansion of the urban area. The aim is to control excessive housing density, due to the lack of water or because there are no conditions to provide basic public services, such as public transportation. And also to protect the environment.
Areas with the most housing restrictions in the AMG
Highway to Tesistán, Colotlán and Nextipac in Zapopan
Cajititlán Lagoon area in Tlajomulco de Zúñiga
Around the Ahogado dams in El Salto and Calderón and La Partida in Zapotlanejo
In the new Periférico in Tonalá and El Salto
In the limits between Zapotlanejo and Tonalá, at the height of Las Liebres
According to the cartography presented in the new Potmet, among the areas that are within these restrictions are the roads to Tesistán, Colotlán and Nextipac in the case of Zapopan, which are the most critical points in the metropolis due to the excessive growth of housing.
There is also the case of the surroundings of the Cajititlán Lagoon in Tlajomulco and the Ahogado Dam in El Salto, because they are considered protection zones for the channels and bodies of water, in addition to the areas surrounding the Calderón and La Partida dams, in Zapotlanejo.
There are more restrictions for new constructions on the limits between Tonalá and El Salto, at the height of the Periférico Oriente. There were restrictions when moving from areas of conditioned growth to areas of rustic use. And in the case of the limits between Zapotlanejo and Tonalá, at the height of Las Liebres, where there were areas of “feasible” or “conditioned” growth, but now they are considered conservation areas or areas of rustic use.
Source: informador
