Cordoned off to the public July 28, after more than a year of waiting for the axe to fall and many hoping it wouldn't, the small pleasant park near Los Muertos Beach, Parque Lazaro Cardenas, is no more. Now in process is an underground parking garage on the site, a street-level Mexican-style plaza to be built over it. Mayor Gustavo Gonzalez Senor has been adamant since taking office that Parque Lazaro Cardenas would, like the former Hidalgo and Benito Juarez parks, be converted into a parking facility to help solve Vallarta's traffic congestion on our narrow cobblestone streets. Meanwhile, concerned citizens, ecologists and the local universities did their utmost to stop it. Renamed Plaza Lazaro Cardenas, in an attempt at conciliation the City says the park's three, big old parrota shade trees will be spared and the plaza will have a small botanical garden. It seems most business owners are delighted it is finally in progress, saying it will draw increased traffic to the area and therefore more business. The vendors who sold flea market-type goods around the park perimeter, however, are now temporarily situated nearby, their futures uncertain.