We called it "Scar on the mountain..."

They call it "ecological sustainability". I got this flyer on my car at Soriana. Don't you just love marketers?

Makes me wish I believed in hell and a special place for the people involved in this to be consigned to.

Unfortunately what is "going up" up there has a good chance of coming down. I wouldn't want to be in the potential path.

I am always suspect of groups not savvy enough to have a native English speaker review their print material. It's not like there aren't plenty around.

I would be interested in a small group tour.

solajijic wrote:I would be interested in a small group tour.

With or without explosives?

Wait until people buy and then the ejido tries to extort money from them saying they built on their land, the ejido in Ajijic is pretty crafty when it comes to shifting boundaries.

Intercasa wrote:Wait until people buy and then the ejido tries to extort money from them saying they built on their land, the ejido in Ajijic is pretty crafty when it comes to shifting boundaries.

I was wondering about that.

Z

I know a fellow who has a townhouse in upper Ajijic. Their complex was just advised that the ejido have recently made a claim against their land.

That visual blight is so bad that I'd think anyone who bought up there would be embarrassed to be part of it.

Bob, I can help your buddy, we are fighting them on another property. We have nailed them down on boundaries in one case.

I suspect you may already be helping them. They are our mutual friends. I will check anyways.

CanuckBob wrote:I know a fellow who has a townhouse in upper Ajijic. Their complex was just advised that the ejido have recently made a claim against their land.

That's a frequent occurrence in places like Mision del Lago and other newer complexes in Upper Ajijic, over the last 30 years.
Never goes anywhere.

They extort money from people and never file their final map so they can keep moving it, they destroy the markers so there is little proof, save for expensive surveys, that the land is not in their zone.

gringal wrote:That visual blight is so bad that I'd think anyone who bought up there would be embarrassed to be part of it.

What she said.

Aren't they also going to stick some hotel and casino up there?

Mainecoons wrote:

gringal wrote:That visual blight is so bad that I'd think anyone who bought up there would be embarrassed to be part of it.

What she said.

Aren't they also going to stick some hotel and casino up there?

I heard that was to be their "crowning glory". Like a turd topping.

Just to cheer y'all up, it this were in Southern California, ALL the view hills would already be covered with this sort of thing.
Gives us something to look forward to, eh?

Well it is all about the money so if those opposed to such development's were to all pitch in and buy those mountains then they could be preserved forever...........

CanuckBob wrote:Well it is all about the money so if those opposed to such development's were to all pitch in and buy those mountains then they could be preserved forever...........

It's always all about the money, and the developers have it. I don't think the naysayers would get far in a "go fund me" pitch.

Way back when they started I heard from one of the engineer that te money was from the US and Chinese, do not know if it is still correct but that is what I was tod when the whole thing started. Anyone knows who is behind this and yes a hotel and casino were on the plans..why not...

the hotel and casino are the primary development at the top of the mountain and le raison d'etre fer the road. the residential shyte is secondary.

brigitte wrote:Way back when they started I heard from one of the engineer that te money was from the US and Chinese, do not know if it is still correct but that is what I was tod when the whole thing started. Anyone knows who is behind this and yes a hotel and casino were on the plans..why not...

The investment company behind the development is primarily owned  by the wealthiest Vietnamese-American family in the US.  
They have real estate interests and development going on in 40 countries.

No wonder the engineer called them Chinos...

brigitte wrote:No wonder the engineer called them Chinos...

Close, as they are from right next door.  It's like calling your neighbours down in Chiapas, Guatemaltecos.

slainte39 wrote:

brigitte wrote:No wonder the engineer called them Chinos...

Close, as they are from right next door.  It's like calling your neighbours down in Chiapas, Guatemaltecos.

On the other hand anybody with curly hair can be called chino here.

Typical of Mexican where any Asian is called Chino and like a dummy I did not hink Asian.We have Taiwanese, Vietnamese and Japanese in my family and we never say Chinese for any Asians but obviously Mexico is a little different.
At leats Chiapas was part of Guatemala until 100 years ago so it would not be as incorrect as calling Vietnamese or Japanese .." Chinese"

Maybe they are curly Vietnamese, and that was the man covered it all.

The few Hoa (sp.) Vietnamese that I knew could all speak Chinese, or so they said.