Juriquilla, one of the fastest-growing residential areas in Querétaro, is in an irregular situation, according to information from the Querétaro Municipality’s Urban Development Secretariat. Currently, at least nine subdivisions in the area, inhabited by thousands of people, are undergoing regularization.
These are Altos de Juriquilla, Valle de Juriquilla II, La Reserva Valle de Juriquilla, Real de Juriquilla 1 and 3, Lomas de Juriquilla stages 1 to 4, San Isidro Juriquilla 1, Cumbres de Juriquilla, Colinas de Juriquilla, Real de Juriquilla phase C sections 2 and 3, and Punta Juriquilla stages 3 and 4.
Based on information from the agency, real estate developers can deliver the subdivisions in stages via five services: public lighting, green areas and street furniture, urban solid waste collection, road signs and safety devices, and urban development works.
In Altos de Juriquilla, public lighting services and urbanization works have been delivered to the municipality; however, road signs and safety devices are in progress, and green areas and street furniture, as well as urban solid waste collection, are pending delivery.
In Valle de Juriquilla II, public lighting and urban solid waste collection services have already been delivered to the municipality, while urbanization works are in progress, with green areas and street furniture, as well as road signs and safety devices, still pending.
Regarding La Reserva Valle de Juriquilla, only one of the five services has been delivered: urbanization works, while public lighting is in progress, and green areas and street furniture, road signs and safety devices, and urban solid waste collection are still pending delivery.
In Real de Juriquilla 1 and 3, the urban solid waste collection service has already been delivered to the municipality; However, services for green areas and street furniture, road signs and safety devices, urbanization works, and public lighting are still pending.
Likewise, according to the agency’s report, in Lomas de Juriquilla, in stages 1 to 4, urban solid waste collection and urbanization works have been delivered only for stages 1 and 2; the delivery of public lighting for stages 1 and 2 is in progress, and green areas and street furniture, and road signs and safety devices are still pending.
San Isidro Juriquilla 1 is another area in an irregular condition, given that only public lighting and urban solid waste collection have been delivered. Urbanization works are in progress, and green areas and street furniture, and road signs and safety devices are still pending. Cumbres de Juriquilla, on the other hand, has already delivered the urban development works and is still pending the provision of public lighting, green areas and street furniture, road signs and safety devices, and urban solid waste collection.
The president of Canadevi in Querétaro, Jorge Rivadeneyra, stated that this will allow for oversight of real estate developers and identify those who are doing things well.
Similarly, the developer of Colinas de Juriquilla has already delivered the urban development works and urban solid waste collection, while the public lighting, green areas and street furniture, and road signs and safety devices services are still pending.
Meanwhile, in Real de Juriquilla, Phase C, sections 2 and 3, only the urban solid waste collection service has been delivered, and the green areas and street furniture, road signs and safety devices, urban development works, and public lighting are still pending.
In the case of Punta Juriquilla, stages 3 and 4, although the agency includes it on the list of subdivisions in the process of regularization, all services are still pending, meaning it is completely unregulated.
Based on data from the 2020 Population and Housing Census of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), 39,244 people live in Juriquilla.
In this regard, Gerardo Romero Altamirano, the capital’s secretary of urban development, indicated that Juriquilla has several subdivisions that are in the process of regularization and others that are 100% regular.
“We have many subdivisions. Juriquilla is not just one subdivision; we will have to analyze each one. There are several developments there, they are at different stages of progress; some are surely 100% complete, some may be missing one or two services, and some are missing four or five services,” he mentioned.
Furthermore, recently, the mayor of Querétaro, Felipe Macías Olvera, announced that the municipality of Querétaro is creating a blacklist of non-compliant real estate developers. Through this list, construction licenses will be denied to companies that have left housing developments unfinished. He warned that developers who abandon people will not be able to build in Querétaro again.
The mayor indicated that this is a new regulation that will have to be implemented to prevent these developers from continuing to build in the capital, as he acknowledged that many leave their developments abandoned, even for more than 30 years, and reapply for building permits in other areas.
“In these more serious cases, those that have been abandoned for more than 20 or 30 years, but what I am working on is that we will not allow impunity. That is why, during my administration, developers who leave people hanging and who still come to apply for new building permits and licenses are being denied. We are developing a blacklist of non-compliant developers,” he stated.
Source: oem
