One in 5 Mexicans reside in irregular areas

Mexico Metropolis. The pinnacle of the Secretariat of Agrarian, Territorial and City Growth (Sedatu), Román Meyer, defined yesterday that solely 25 p.c of the municipalities within the nation have city improvement planning mechanisms, a elementary instrument for regulating development and that, as a consequence of lack of entry to housing, one in 5 Mexicans lives in irregular areas.

Throughout the presidential convention, he defined that these devices empower the municipalities to grant development permits. Quite the opposite, with out them It prices 4 occasions extra to introduce fundamental companies: water, electrical energy, drainage, paving.

Emphasizing the significance of city planning mechanisms, he talked about the case of Mérida, which in simply 20 years (from 2004 to 2024) grew eightfold.

The official mentioned that, in an try to appropriate this case, greater than 300 devices have been made, which influence 43 p.c of the nationwide floor. As well as, 46 p.c of the inhabitants lives in these territories.

With the plan that has been carried out throughout this administration, the expansion of the city space has been diminished by 60 p.c.

He defined that the present authorities carried out an city enchancment program in extremely marginalized areas of cities, which, with an funding of almost 35 billion pesos, carried out 1,200 actions in numerous components of the nation.

He highlighted that a few of these actions have been carried out round strategic tasks such because the Mayan Practice, the Trans-Isthmus Practice and the Felipe Ángeles Worldwide Airport (AIFA).

With the planning devices within the municipalities by which the Maya Practice passes, there will likely be 16 thousand hectares much less of logging in these areas, the secretary indicated. Across the AIFA, 40 works and 21 thousand housing actions have been carried out, which will likely be appropriate with planning measures that handle to cut back the influence of urbanization of the airport by 1,500 hectares.

Meyer revealed that 26 p.c of the almost 35 billion have been allotted to parks and plazas; 24 p.c to roads; 22 p.c to sports activities; 17 p.c to instructional and cultural works; 6 p.c to commerce and 4 p.c to well being and security.