Motorized nautical activities, deckchairs and parasols are now prohibited on Grand-Case beach. The Collectivity has decided to put in place concrete measures to ensure that the regulations governing the occupation of the public domain are respected.
At the end of October, the president Aline Hanson received at the Hôtel de la Collectivité the prefect Anne Laubies in order to discuss the respect of the law in matters of occupation of the public domain on the territory. During this meeting, the bay of Grand-Case was at the heart of the discussions and several points were raised including the presence on the beach without authorization of deckchairs, parasols and terraces, announced the COM. The monitoring committee made it possible a few days later to define the strategy to be implemented. On November 3, the Planning and Town Planning Commission decided to “prohibit the occupation of Grand-Case beach by deckchairs and parasols. The commission's opinion will be proposed for validation to the executive council on November 17 ”. A decree prohibiting motorized nautical activities by the beach was also signed by President Hanson. The restaurateurs will also have to install grease traps and evacuate the cooking grease by a non-polluting circuit, said COM. Professionals in the area will be notified by mail of these decisions. A series of checks will be carried out by the territorial police so that the regulations are respected.
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1) prohibiting deckchairs means reducing tourist activities and attractions! So I don't understand this measure. Why not go see the restaurateurs and discuss with them what and how to do rather than constantly adding penalizing regulations?
2) Banning motorized water sports “near the beaches”… is very vague. Yes, they must be regulated in order to avoid (or try to avoid!) Accidents. But we should be more specific. How far. Likewise, motorized water sports should not be allowed to travel through mooring areas, especially sailboats where many people live on board and therefore swim.
3) Recently, there have been a few yellow buoys placed in the bay of Grand-Case without any information having been given to the various nautical leisure centers. We do not know what they denote since they are yellow and the yellow marks are “special marks”, channel, limit of swimming area, Marine reserve, etc. They can just as easily indicate the limit of the mooring area for boats, the area for practicing motorized water sports ... I was told, but without this having been confirmed by any authority, that it was to limit the anchorage area for sailboats (because of the masts) as an extension of the airstrip. Very difficult to locate this channel given that there are 4 buoys (I only saw 3 a few days ago) and that they thus form a rectangle (triangle) that no one therefore understands. Especially since one of them is the same as those used by the Nature Reserve, one of which is not far away!
4) On this subject, moreover, the international regulations for marking at sea, to which France is subject, stipulate that any new mark must be duplicated in order to make people on the water understand that they are new and therefore not on the nautical charts.
5) And finally, the subject of the evacuation of cooking fats “by a non-polluting circuit”, when we look at the bay of Grand-Case, it seems much more polluted by the pond than by grease:
Instead, look at the Google Map images of Grand-Case and you'll see. Likewise, I have several photos taken on different occasions shortly after the crane opened the sand dune closing the channel evacuating the water from the pond to the sea… It is not very tasty! When you think that there are many people who bathe from their boat… They do not even suspect the culture broth in which they simmer then!
But we don't care that you don't agree with the people of St Martin wanted it and got it, that's how democracy is, even for white people. The majority wins
What is this way of writing things ?? The Collectivity is rife? It is rife because it is not in favor of restaurateurs. You know in St Martin there are laws too !!! So stop pretending and if you don't agree you just have to take the plane and go back to France.
St Martin needs income and tourism is THE ONLY source of income on the island! Hence my questions!
Of course there are laws! My comment has nothing to do with it. I have no interest in these deckchairs and other beach activities. I'm just asking questions about the economy of the island which is already struggling to prosper. Everyone is trying to do their best in difficult times. It seems that the French Side goes to great lengths to stop people in their tracks, to encrust the economy of the island ... Laws and rules are necessary to avoid abuses in particular, but we sometimes have to recognize that they are penalizing and go against the economic development of the island!
A democracy, since you broached the subject, is a world where we have the right to express ourselves and therefore not to agree… without having to be kicked out! Otherwise it becomes a dictatorship.
“Go back to France” doesn't make sense to me, since France is not my home.
And why bring it back to skin tones anyway? Or place of birth? I do not see the link…