Urban planning and zoning. They’re just planning in advance for urban sprawl and congestion. Mexico experienced a lot of growing pains (and preventable deaths) when its cities boomed and they haven’t forgotten.

Side rant: Where I used to live they zoned heavily for green areas for water absorption during rainy season and for sewage management bc it was low-lying tropical climate. Unfortunately, one big foreign hotel greasing palms and they’re building on top of a wildlife sanctuary necessary to prevent catastrophic flooding. Bye bye city buses full of people down the canal. But hey, ‘Mercia! Tourism! It brought me solace their fancy pool foundation shatters almost annually like clockwork and their pretty glass balconies kept popping from earth settling. Didn’t save the neighborhoods they destroyed by filling in a river delta though. Kept waiting for the “big one” earthquake that would bring that sucker down for good.

I don’t know, but if I had to guess I’d say it was laying down the structure of a massive expansion of the city.

In the most built up part, there’s the same sort of grid system, albeit pointing SW-NE, rather than N-S as with these. Maybe they’re setting up for adding more and more buildings in a similar layout?

Meanwhile, just south of the edge of your pic, there’s this intriguing feature!

Boring straight lines; easiest (cheapest) way to add infrastructure (not just roads, think water, sewage etc as well)…it’s all over NA, so why not in a popular tourist destination. Perhaps to attract some foreign investment into housing?
It’s just far from finished. Wouldn’t be surprised if it was too expensive for locals already and not interesting enough for foreigners at whatever the price point is. So there you have whatever the municipality approved already, pushing to have an extended road built with few side roads, since it would be crazy inefficient to do few meters at a time, and once you have the main road, you can easily add onto it.

About the curved bit mentioned - likely gonna be more expensive housing where rich folks don’t have to look at the road/neighbours fence but instead their private little pond/lake. The name of the business next road over tells you all you need to know (“Villas Dubai” lmao)

Ask a surveyor with experience in Mexico.

It looks like most of the minor streets are mostly parallel with or perpendicular to the major road to the north and the rest are aligned along the cardinal directions: north & south, east & west. Lots of the properties and their respective drainage and road right of ways were probably apportioned to align with whatever the most significant roadway or canal was in place at the time. I can see the being portioned off using simple legal language like you can buy the north 50 meters of the south 300 meters relative to “this road” and the east 50 meters of the west 200 meters relative to “this canal”. You can accurately divide an area this way without any need to define a grid north, a proper grid coordinate system, and very basic survey tools.

I’d guess that the other streets oriented to the cardinal directions came later as survey tools and practices advanced or some other change in the way municipalities regulate. For example, in the U.S. you see most gridded streets and lots in older areas, relative to sections townships and ranges, but in new platted developments constantly curving streets are all the rage.

Whatever the cause, you are seeing the history of land development as the area develops it’s customs around land development.

Looks like some designing made for cars

Why does anything horrible ever happen? Because some asshole somewhere thought they could profit from your misery while getting away with it.

And until the people rise up in murder, all billionaires and millionaires, they’re right.

Prove them wrong

Or stop thinking that you have the right to complain about it. And when the rest of us rise up, don’t expect to survive.