At the recent session of the Puerto Vallarta Urban Development Council, it was reported that, by order of the Administrative Court in file 1281/2015, the Ameyalco urban project was shelved, declared the rector of the Centro Universitario de la Costa, Jorge Téllez Lopez.
He said, “They gave us a reading of a legal resolution where it is said that a trial was held in relation to this, and that the Ameyalco issue is archived due to non-compliance by one of the parties for not following up on the different clarifications that he had to make. What followed it is that it was brought up to the Urban Development Council, and the issue is completely buried. I hope that no one revives it again because, in the end, it was not an issue that benefited Puerto Vallarta either in urban or environmental issues.”
The Ameyalco project was promoted for the first time in the administration of Salvador Gonzalez Reséndiz, where it found strong opposition from environmentalists and residents in general, for which it was discarded. There was another attempt in the period of Ramén Guerrero Martinez, but it was also rejected. In this administration of Luis Michel, the same thing happened again.
The Ameyalco Project intended to develop 300 hectares of the mountain between the limits of Ejido El Jorullo and Ejido Puerto Vallarta (up from Mismaloya). The developers proposed to build 961 rooms for tourist hotel use with a capacity for 1,900 people, in addition to 188 cabins with a capacity for 940 people, a total of almost 3,000 people, not counting employees.
Téllez said, “The project is not bad, its location is bad. This project should be in the tourist area. It was supposed to be ecological tourism. However, there was talk of hotels and condominiums in an inaccessible area, where there are no roads in the heart of the mountain. It would have been very serious from the environmental point of view, and from the tranquility of the towns that are in the mountains.”
Two weeks ago, the director of Urban Development and the Environment of the Puerto Vallarta City Council, Adriana Guzman Jiménez, commented that it was the council’s opinion that it was an unfeasible project because it was outside the population center.