Residents of Tijuana’s beachfront communities are asking the area to prevent issuing building permits for high-rise buildings along the coastline.
They claim that the increased cover thickness is causing more visitors, pollution, and congestion while reducing everyone’s access to water.
Gabriela Guinea Johnston, who heads a citizens party, says she’s gathered more than 2,000 names on a plea for the city government demanding a ban on all structure of high-rise properties.
She said her party, for three decades, has been trying to get the area to end large-scale advancements without any success.
The ban is intended for those who want to start big projects, Guinea Johnston said. “If you want to create a five-story house building, that would be fine, but if you want to develop 20 floors of accommodation, that won’t function. ”
She says the place where she lives was built to handle 22,000 inhabitants, but there are now more than 50,000 no counting those who live on mountains.
“The liquid capacity is not there, it can’t solve so many people, it was never designed for that. ”
Guinea Johnston would like to see more gardens, schools, and institutions constructed to improve the quality of life for her and her companions.
People should use more public transport to get around, arguing that they must not rely on their vehicles. With all the pollution we are now dealing with in Tijuana, our quality of life is terrible; we presently lack companies like water, drainage, and drain. ”
Another effects, according to Guinea Johnston, is that the new initiatives raise the price of casing, especially house prices.
They are constructing expensive condominiums that cost more than$ 200,000, which will not help the city’s affordable housing shortage, she said. Because they simply ca n’t afford to live here, the typical workers here along the coastal zone will have to live far away from their jobs. ”
The area should take action on the ban as soon as possible, according to Guiness Johnston.
The state is promoting development rather than a decrease in density. ”
