Six Quintana Roo Projects Await Environmental Approval

CANCÚN, MX. Six infrastructure projects were submitted and processed at the Central Offices and Representation Offices of the Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat), as well as through Public Consultations and Public Information Meetings for procedures submitted to the Environmental Impact Assessment Procedure (Peia), the federal agency reported.

The listed projects seek the Environmental Impact Statement (MIA) to be developed. In Benito Juárez, there are two: “Strategy for coastal protection and resilience through marine infrastructure and beach rehabilitation Mia,” located in Cancún, and the project for a private pier with Lift and gable roof, in the Hotel Zone.

The other four are in an equal number of municipalities: Puerto Morelos, where the Academic Unit of Reef Systems (Uasa) seeks the replacement and rehabilitation of the pier of the Institute of Marine Sciences and Limnology of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). In Isla Mujeres, the promoter seeks authorization for the construction and operation of a 5-level building with 2 apartments on level 1 and 3 apartments from level 2 to level 5, totaling 14 apartments within a property with a total surface area of 831.79 square meters; “it also includes the operation of works already built on land reclaimed from the sea (Tgm) and the Federal Maritime Terrestrial Zone (ZFMT), adjacent to the property, and in the area of the coastal lagoon Makax, which consists of a wooden platform that runs parallel to the ZFMT with a surface area of approximately 100 square meters (20 m long by 5 m wide).”

The fifth project is located in Playa del Carmen, on lands of Playa Paraíso, where the promoter requests environmental authorization for the construction and operation of a real estate development consisting of 11 two-level villas, with a total of 42 rooms, also contemplates the construction of 4 lots intended for apartment buildings with a total of 244 apartments with 344 rooms, as well as their respective parking areas, with their common and service areas, within a property with a total surface area of 681,831.04 square meters.

The sixth MIA request is for the project “Punta del Mar Cozumel,” which will be tourist-residential. The project will be carried out on two properties owned by the promoter; the first property is located between the Old Southern Coastal Highway and the Southern Perimeter Highway with a total area of 5.286 ha. The second property is located between the Federal Maritime Terrestrial Zone and the Old Southern Coastal Highway with a total area of 0.657 ha. The total area where the project will be carried out is 5.943 hectares. It should be mentioned that this project was submitted on November 26, 2010; and the environmental impact statement for the project “internal roads of the master plan punta tormentos” was submitted for evaluation before the Institute of Environmental Impact and Risk of the Government of the State of Quintana Roo (INIRA). (Agencia SIM)