A recent survey showed that only ten percent of residents want the buildings raised to the ground. Almost 40 percent would prefer the facility to be converted into a hospital, 22 percent a school and 19 percent housing.
Alejandro Cardenas, the president of Guadalajara’s independent Parlamento de Colonos (Neighborhood Parliament), said that aside from the environmental concerns, the “irregularities” that surrounded the construction and financing of the village run so deep that the only viable solution is to demolish the complex. Cardenas said a proposal to convert the complex into homes for the elderly is no different to the original plan of using it for residential living. This idea has essentially been discarded as unworkable given the negative impact that the high density of population in the apartment would have on the surrounding area.
Developers say the complex’s water treatment plant was built to comfortably service a population of around 3,000.