A company requested a federal environmental permit for a new “Country Club” with artificial lakes, now in Dzibilchaltún, a community of Mérida with an archaeological zone of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) and located 19.4 km northeast of the Anillo Periférico of the capital of Yucatán.
If authorized, the new real estate development would be a neighbor of the Yucatán Country Club, located in the community of Chablekal, construction began in 2005, has several artificial lakes and, according to the 2020 Census, has 2,141 inhabitants and 646 homes. Of which 600 are inhabited.
Now, in its Gazette of January 23, 2025, the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat) of Mexico reports that the Dzibilchaltún Real Estate Company requested permission to carry out the Lagos Dzibilchaltún project on land number 38938. This land was a quarry and is 1.8 km northeast of the town of Dzibilchaltún, which is northwest of the area.
Dzibilchaltún Real Estate acknowledges that this is the second time it has requested authorization for Lagos Dzibilchaltún because it did not manage to build the two lakes within the period established in the first permit and because on December 7, 2016, it paid a fine of $250,015.92 that Semarnat imposed on him for changing the land use in an area of 27,242 m2, for this project, without having authorization federal.
According to the GeoPortal platforms of the Mérida City Council and SIGV2 of the Yucatán Public Property Registry (RPPY), land 38938 has a cadastral value of $87.5 million. It is southeast of the Yucatán Country Club.
Lagos Dzibilchaltún will occupy an area of 50,000 square meters (m2), which is equivalent to just 1.5% of the 3,250,000 m2 (325 hectares) of the Yucatán Country Club, and will also have a third of the homes of the second.
But like the Yucatán Country Club, Lagos Dzibilchaltún will be urbanized and built little by little, in this case, within 10 years it is intended to provide it with the following lots to build residences, green areas, and two artificial lakes.
However, to build the two lakes, explosives and heavy machinery will be used to level the old quarry to the groundwater, since land 38938 is located in the geological structure known as the “Semicircle of Cenotes”.
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