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 News from Around Banderas Bay | August 2005 
Beach Vendors March on City Hall
 PVNN
| | After a recent demonstration on the steps of City Hall, Mayor Gustavo González Villaseñor reiterated the government's commitment to opening 25 public beach accesses in Vallarta. |
Puerto Vallarta - Beach vendors requesting that the current administration live up to their promise of making the public beaches of Vallarta more accessible marched on downtown last week. As a result, Mayor Gustavo González Villaseñor reiterated his commitment to negotiate the opening of 25 public beach accesses in the municipality.
After listening to the demonstrators' anxieties and complaints that many of Puerto Vallarta's public beaches have been blocked by some of the city's hotels and private businesses, the mayor assured the demonstrators that he has been working with the director of Urban Planning and Public Works to initiate the process since the beginning of his administration.
González Villaseñor said that for many years he has been listening to the people's concerns about these public spaces being restricted, which, in turn affects many Vallarta families by limiting their source of income. He assured the vendors that before the end of his term he will comply with his commitment to see the 25 accesses and public bathrooms completed.
To give certainty to his commitment, the Mayor turned the demonstrators' questions over to Director of Urban Planning, Carlos Manzano Zepeda, and Public Works representative, Remberto Quintero Gutiérrez, who assured those who were present at the demonstration that a meeting has been set for this Thursday with representatives of the Office of the Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT) to discuss speeding up the construction process.
So far, only two entry ways are under construction. Located downtown at Venezuela and Paraguay within walking distance of the parking lot under construction at Hidalgo Park, these access ways will not only allow citizens, beach vendors and tourist service providers easy entrance to public beaches, but will also feature rest rooms, outdoor showers, vendor spaces and welded steel archways, brick-laid steps and curved walk ways to mark the public beach entrances.
The cost for completing these two public beach entries has been estimated at just over $2 million pesos. The mayor said that during Thursday's meeting, he will also address providing public beach access in Marina Vallarta, the South Shore and some of the public beaches that lie just north of the city. |
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