San Pancho, Nayarit, October 26, 2026 – Semarnat has given Bahía de Banderas one year to demolish structures in Punta Paraíso.
The document is Administrative Resolution 1551/2026, issued October 23 by Semarnat’s federal coastal-zone directorate, known as ZOFEMAT. It says the municipality requested intervention across 1,817.39 square meters of land classified as terrenos ganados al mar, or land gained from the sea.
We could not obtain the full resolution for this report. Its exact scope, the start date of the one-year period, and any additional conditions therefore remain unverified. The material reviewed also does not establish a demolition start date.
For residents and people heading north from Puerto Vallarta for a beach day, the practical question is how the damaged structures will be removed safely while protecting the sand and sea around them.
A one-year limit alone cannot answer that. A deadline for completing work and a schedule showing when crews will arrive are different.
According to NoticiasPV’s account, the resolution requires prompt removal of demolition debris, prohibits permanent waste storage and calls for measures to prevent wastewater discharges into the marine environment. The municipality must also notify environmental-impact authorities and report completion to ZOFEMAT.
Those conditions make debris removal part of the intervention itself. Knocking down damaged concrete would leave the beach-protection work unfinished if the resulting material remained exposed to the waves.
The technical difficulty was already apparent before the reported federal resolution. In an October 23 interview, municipal planning and urban development director Julio Santoyo Martínez said the Ayuntamiento was awaiting a state Civil Protection assessment to determine safe demolition procedures.
“It needs certain conditions and different treatment,” Santoyo said in Spanish, explaining that specialists would provide those requirements.
He said the building’s condition and coastal location required specialized handling to protect workers and reduce environmental damage. Officials were also examining who would carry out the work and cover its costs.
The latest reported resolution follows a separate environmental enforcement case. In its October 7 announcement, Profepa said a federal court had unanimously rejected Pacific Lifestyle Properties’ legal challenge, confirming sanctions against the developer.
Those measures require restoring 1,466.008 square meters of coastal federal land by demolishing irregular construction, along with a 96,220-peso fine. The agency specifically identified Tower 1 and Tower 2 in the sanctions, a ruling previously covered by Vallarta Daily.
That enforcement footprint differs from the 1,817.39-square-meter intervention area reported for the new resolution. The figures describe different proceedings and should not be treated as interchangeable measurements of the demolition site.
The urgency increased when part of Punta Paraíso collapsed October 21, after authorities had evacuated and closed the property.
In an October 24 report on the safety cordon, Tribuna de la Bahía said Navy personnel were keeping beachgoers away from the damaged structure. That report, citing journalist Violeta Meléndez, described the deployment as protection against further collapse.
For anyone visiting San Pancho, the cordon is the immediate safety measure to respect. Under the newly reported conditions, completing the demolition will also mean taking the rubble off the beachfront and filing a completion report with ZOFEMAT.
