A little history

The area where I built my first house was subdivided prior to the turn of the century.

If your first house was above the 70-meter mark known as the Cota 70 that indicated our zonas ecológicas, then it wasn't legal to sell that land or to build there until the zoning law was changed during the trienio of Amador Campos Aburto who was mayor from 2002 to 2005. He's the politician responsible for Zihuatanejo losing its ecological zones even though there were already squatters trying to steal the lands and some unscrupulous people trying to sell them.

Jorge Allec Galeana was the mayor at the turn of the century from 1999 to 2002, and he was the last mayor we had who was adamant about protecting the zona ecológica above the Cota 70. He kept removing the squatters. I got along well with him even though I was probably the first person to tell him in a public meeting before I was actually a citizen that his "remodeling" of the waterfront was "like putting makeup on a patient dying of cancer" (yes, they were doing that even back then for the kickbacks). I was arguing back then mainly for protecting the bay from water pollution, among other problems including protecting the large shade trees along the waterfront that everyone loved, some that were being cut down for the remodeling project. I'd only been here for about ten years then, so I was still a relative newbie in the community, and a Gringo to boot, but I was Lupita's husband, and she was highly respected then as she still is today, so they welcomed me to the public meeting that was held upstairs at the original Palacio Municipal when it was next to the zócalo, now called the Cancha Municipal. He liked my boldness and intelligence. Public Administration had been one of my favorite areas of study in the universities I attended.