Former President Alain Richardson yesterday sent a tribune to the local media concerning “the crisis” of the local urban plan (PLU). The opportunity for him to give his recommendations in terms of town planning.
According to Alain Richardson, "to speak only of the PLU crisis" would be "to miss a deeper problem that the PLU has only revealed". Not to have seen it coming is to have been deaf and blind to situations and events which for many, many years have sporadically manifested themselves in a hushed way but which lately have burst into broad daylight ”.
- Richardson takes the example of the “finding that many inhabitants of the island feel badly about seeing disappear since the end of the era of tax exemption almost all prime coastal land originally intended for tourist activity ( hotels, hotel residences, leisure activities, etc.) for the benefit of housing; (a situation which weighs heavily on and seriously penalizes any ambition to consolidate and develop tourism to meet the needs of activity and jobs) ”. “All of these situations have given rise to a feeling of abuse, planned dispossession and violation of their basic rights within the population, and the deep unease now gives way to a desire for revolt. You should know that there is a particular and deep bond between St-Martinois and its land, to be St-Martinois to own a piece of St-Martin ”.
Alain Richardson also shares his recommendations for moving forward
Now that the procedure for adopting the PLU has been interrupted, it is urgent to take the following roadmap into account, given the skills acquired by the COM in 2012:
- delete in the St-Martin Town Planning Code all the framework and the regulations of the PLU Local Town Planning Plan taken text from the State code,
- urgently adopt a specific framework and regulations, adapted and operational in terms of planning and management of the territory (the Territorial Plan of Planning and Urbanization of St-Martin). In fact it is necessary to create the framework (the software) in conformity with the "own interests of St-Martin". In order not to waste too much time and to reassure investors as to the regulations that should apply to areas of the territory with high interest, a secure transitional framework must be adopted and validated by the Territorial Council.
- create the St-Martinois Conservatory of remarkable spaces and classified green spaces. This body will replace the State bodies Conservatoire du littoral and Office National des Forêts in the acquisition and ownership of all land to be preserved and protected in the territory. It would be financed primarily by funds collected from the sale of land in the area known as the 50 geometric steps which could not have been the subject of a new title validation procedure as well as the procedure to be put in place for the regularization of backfilled land that does not fall within the 50 geometric steps. Other exceptional tax revenues on real estate transactions could add to the financial resources of this organization.
- Create and / or strengthen the zoning of the Urban Planning Code of St-Martin with a category "exclusive tourist area to be reclaimed" for all the land of the coast and remarkable areas that received during the era of tax exemption building permits hotels and / or hotel residences and which have been transformed into accommodation. Set up tax incentives to promote the regrouping of these real estate properties, as well as to encourage renovations and / or reconstruction and their exclusive use in a tourist context (hotels, hotel residences, etc.),
- In order to give a legal corpus to the ideal St-Martinois, set up a real policy and a regulatory framework for the creation of territorial allotments (only effective means of guaranteeing access to property to our fellow citizens at affordable prices) .
- Adopt rigorous but simple and operational procedures for the adoption of this new planning and urbanization tool for the territory, while guaranteeing the dissemination of information and the collection of observations and complaints not only from institutional structures but from all citizens .
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