Mexico’s Environment Agency Opens Public Consultation for ZONNA Project in Playa del Carmen

Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo — Mexico’s Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat) has opened a public consultation period for the ZONNA development planned for a beachfront property on Calle 28, the site currently occupied by Mamitas Beach Club.

The consultation runs from Aug. 4 through Sept. 1 and allows citizens and other interested parties to submit comments, as well as proposals for preventing and mitigating the project’s potential environmental impact. Semarnat said all submissions will be considered during its review of whether the project is viable.

According to the project plans, ZONNA would include a 64-room hotel and 187 condominium units distributed across seven seven-story towers.

The project was submitted to Semarnat’s General Directorate of Environmental Risk and Impact in March, but the agency only decided to issue the public consultation after facing mounting pressure from residents.

Earlier, the Riviera Maya College of Architects warned that a development of this scale could worsen mobility problems in the area, noting that road capacity is insufficient to handle the additional traffic. The group also pointed out that Avenida 10 has been converted to one-way traffic and Fifth Avenue is now pedestrian-only.

Those wishing to submit comments can do so through Semarnat’s online portal using project key 23QR2026TD016.