 Together with the Zapopan municipal government's plan to construct public housing on 5 hectares of forest, various other public and private developments have been proposed within Nixticuil Forest.The development sponsored by the "Villa de los Niños" Association consists of the construction of a building complex, while the Autonomous University of Guadalajara (UAG) presented a project to construct a "University Science and Technology Research Park".By the end of 2006 the Zapopan government proposed the designation of Nixticuil Forest as a natural protected area.