Andrew Baker Jr Richardson The representatives of all Six (6) districts of French Saint- Martin will like to invite you to our press conference which will be held on this coming Wednesday
at 5 PM at the Maison de Quartier in French Quarter Coralita road. (Located on the Ball-Field)
We are saying NO out loud with a petition.
PETITION
NO TO THE P.L.U.
NO TO THE PUBLIC INQUIRY
NO TO THE ABUSIVE AND ARBITRARY REPURCHASE OF THE SO CALLED «50 PAS»
To all the elected representatives of the Territorial Collectivité of Saint-Martin,
All sectors of the population of Saint-Martin, with few exceptions, are negatively impacted by the P.L.U. project that you have been imposing for the last months, without having the courage to satisfactorily explain a certain number of basic inconsistent decisions about the economic future of our island.
Whereas tourism is the first economic activity that is supposed to ensure the livelihood of our population, your P.L.U. has based its decisions on a hypothetic agriculture that, according to you only, is the pillar of our economy. Zones U4 and U5 covering the largest luxury vacation market on the island are directly threatened by the planned urbanization of these zones. Decisions characterized as -agriculture– green or nature- largely concern the more than centenary properties of Saint Martin people, who will not be allowed to build or invest on our ancestral inheritance in order to secure the well-being of our children and our families. This inheritance identifies our local reality and the economic hope of our young generations obliged to stay abroad on account of their exclusion from the development of the last thirty years. In short, your P.L.U. totally disregards our tourism-oriented economy, already represented by a renowned luxury tourism industry in the Lowlands.
In addition, the decision to considerably increase the number of floors in villages as traditional as Marigot and Grand-Case, will disfigure the existing housing environment belonging to the native population and tarnish its touristic attraction, leaving the door open to the expropriation of our properties, to the urbanization of our two major centres of local life, and consequently to the increase of delinquency and criminality. The present density of the population (600+ inhab. /km2) is already the highest in the French Caribbean islands. The sewage infrastructure, almost inadequate or inexistent, presently endangers the quality of life in many areas, and no provision for the improvement of this situation is made in you project.
Your P.L.U. reflects two distinct disturbing trends, on the one hand, the protection of the new residential districts and the planned increase of exogenous residents, and on the other hand, the stalled growth of many native landowners whose properties are declassified as non-constructible for some, and declared green or natural areas for others, and the demolishing of the luxury tourism industry.
Finally, communications and exchanges are made in the various languages spoken on the island in electoral times, and you boast of the multicultural and multilingual nature of our society, therefore decisions as important as those made in your project should have taken into account our historical, ancestral, cultural and linguistic realities, and preserve the profitability of our luxury tourism zones.
at 5 PM at the Maison de Quartier in French Quarter Coralita road. (Located on the Ball-Field)
We are saying NO out loud with a petition.
PETITION
NO TO THE P.L.U.
NO TO THE PUBLIC INQUIRY
NO TO THE ABUSIVE AND ARBITRARY REPURCHASE OF THE SO CALLED «50 PAS»
To all the elected representatives of the Territorial Collectivité of Saint-Martin,
All sectors of the population of Saint-Martin, with few exceptions, are negatively impacted by the P.L.U. project that you have been imposing for the last months, without having the courage to satisfactorily explain a certain number of basic inconsistent decisions about the economic future of our island.
Whereas tourism is the first economic activity that is supposed to ensure the livelihood of our population, your P.L.U. has based its decisions on a hypothetic agriculture that, according to you only, is the pillar of our economy. Zones U4 and U5 covering the largest luxury vacation market on the island are directly threatened by the planned urbanization of these zones. Decisions characterized as -agriculture– green or nature- largely concern the more than centenary properties of Saint Martin people, who will not be allowed to build or invest on our ancestral inheritance in order to secure the well-being of our children and our families. This inheritance identifies our local reality and the economic hope of our young generations obliged to stay abroad on account of their exclusion from the development of the last thirty years. In short, your P.L.U. totally disregards our tourism-oriented economy, already represented by a renowned luxury tourism industry in the Lowlands.
In addition, the decision to considerably increase the number of floors in villages as traditional as Marigot and Grand-Case, will disfigure the existing housing environment belonging to the native population and tarnish its touristic attraction, leaving the door open to the expropriation of our properties, to the urbanization of our two major centres of local life, and consequently to the increase of delinquency and criminality. The present density of the population (600+ inhab. /km2) is already the highest in the French Caribbean islands. The sewage infrastructure, almost inadequate or inexistent, presently endangers the quality of life in many areas, and no provision for the improvement of this situation is made in you project.
Your P.L.U. reflects two distinct disturbing trends, on the one hand, the protection of the new residential districts and the planned increase of exogenous residents, and on the other hand, the stalled growth of many native landowners whose properties are declassified as non-constructible for some, and declared green or natural areas for others, and the demolishing of the luxury tourism industry.
Finally, communications and exchanges are made in the various languages spoken on the island in electoral times, and you boast of the multicultural and multilingual nature of our society, therefore decisions as important as those made in your project should have taken into account our historical, ancestral, cultural and linguistic realities, and preserve the profitability of our luxury tourism zones.
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