Mexico's dispersed sprawl makes transit in periurban social housing estates so inefficient that employers are the ones who provide transportation. Basically, those communities are isolated on weekends when workers aren't commuting.
Oaxaca Coast Municipal buildings and a mayor’s office.
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There are three kinds of land tenure in Mexico: private, public, and social. Ejidos and Agrarian Communities are social property. Since Ejidos and Agrarian Communities are comunal property, they are exempt from property taxes. In Oaxaca, hundreds of municipalities are solely comunal land.
This was part of a work trip. Saddest municipality I have ever been. Mexican communal land tenure system makes it impossible for them to levy property taxes, so hotels worth 11M USD operate tax free.
A building damaged in the 2017 Mexico City Earthquake collapsed.
One more case of the massive failure that was the Reconstruction Process.
In 2018, the city opted to do it on their own; upzoning and partnering with developers was too neoliberal for them.
Spanish NIMBYs just blocked 450 centrally located co-op homes.
www.eldiario.es/madrid/somos...
If you can call those sandy streets roads, then yes.
Poor farmers, they have to scam foreigners by selling them unserviced non-developable rural land at beachfront values 😥
A pic of informal speculative subdivisions to start by beach weekend.
The most NIMBY housing take that you will hear in your life will always come from someone from Barcelona.
Doing a Balkan trip for three weeks (🇷🇸🇧🇦🇲🇪🇦🇱🇽🇰🇲🇰🇬🇷)
Send Balkan recommendations. I am going during March.
Monterrey's Center has higher median home values than Mexico City's. Monterrey builds new housing at the center, while CDMX construction clusters around km 4-7 in the Benito Juárez borough.
Yes, transit, infrastructure, and housing sucks.
In terms of infrastructure, transit and housing policy, it seems democratization has been a terrible incentive.
Since the democratization of Mexico City, few things have been done right (mainly gay marriage and abortion).
The city also has democratized concerts.
Got your point. To answer your first question. I think you can find new developments with higher build-up area in Mexico City.
Idk, imo this looks denser, even per lot basis.
Dwellings per hectare. Aldea Tulum is around 120.
No, the densest developments in Mexico are those Infonavit-financed suburban estates. The densest part of Tulum is Aldea Tulum.
Building coverage, sorry
Did you see the unpaved streets next to the high-end apartments lol?
Agree! We are trying to convince the municipality to exempt the central areas from the density limits and parking requirements, and let them do the penalties thing in the rest of the city.
FAR, Building Occupancy, heights, parking…
In this case, it is Tulum. Apparently, happily, developers pay the fines. There is a general perception that there is an oversupply of housing.
Maybe, the zoning restrictions result in cheaper land, where the surplus is captured by the municipality through fines.
They cynically have a fine in their Fiscal Law. Developers can pay to ignore zoning or any kind of regulation.
This week I went to a municipality that understands that parking requirements and low dwelling densities are bad, but levies a significant revenue from penalties charged to developments that fall short of parking mandates or that include more housing units.
So they are reluctant to upzone :<
Had a meeting with developers from Tulum. They really expect to build without any competition at all.
They complained about the “oversupply” of units, that makes them drop prices.
It is the first time I hear opposition to higher dwellings densities because that exacerbates the oversupply ¿?
Land Value Capture is the panacea in Latin American planning discourse, lobbied heavily by the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy.
Despite few successful cases, mainly Colombia and Brazil, Mexican planners won’t upzone without complex LVC mechanisms. As a result, Mexico has low-density urban cores.
