«We are not against development, but it must be orderly,» President Alejandro de Jesús Aguirre Curiel said during the neighborhood meeting in San Nicolás de Ibarra on Monday afternoon, April 25.
Alejandro de Jesús Aguirre Curiel with microphone in hand, in front of the San Nicolás de Ibarra community committee. Photo: Jazmín Stengel
Jazmín Stengel-Chapala. The Government of Chapala has canceled the permit to connect 30 new homes in the “San Nicolás” subdivision in the adjacent Vista del Lago development that would allowed it to connect San Nicolás de Ibarra’s water system and well.
«The well will not be touched,» said the mayor of Chapala, Alejandro Aguirre Curiel, before some 300 community activists who met with him on the corner of Juárez and Morelos streets on Monday, April 25. «We are not going to give water to this subdivision, you have my word, we are going to cancel this permit», said the mayor during the meeting which lasted about an hour. They also asked for the dismissal of the spokesperson of the SIMAPA Chapala Council, Ricardo Razo and the Administrator of SIMAPA San Nicolás.
Before those present, who in previous days had protested because the subdivision wanted to connect to the town’s network, Aguirre Curiel committed to regulate all authorized developments in the municipality before issuing any more permits.
Based on density demands promoted under the municipal Urban Development Plan, Curiel action can avoid injunctions by private companies, and require them to supply services to their developments themselves and not connect to the municipal systems.
«So far in our government we have not authorized a single permit nor do we have any in the pipeline, until we regulate all those that are authorized,» he assured the citizens.
Aguirre Curiel insisted that the misunderstandings of the April 20 meeting between authorities and the community were due to the mishandling of information by the person in charge of the delegation and public officials of the City Hall, who should have been clear about denying the connection to the water well from the beginning. The neighbors asked the authorities to respect the official letter that was distributed to record the deal made during the meeting and that the administration of the water be once again managed by the community. They asked to be notified of the income and expenses on a regular basis.
In addition, the residents requested the appointment of Luis Morales Contreras as a member of the Board of SIMAPA Chapala and Irma Reyes Delgado as Administrator of SIMAPA San Nicolás.
Translated by Mary Woods.
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