The last public meeting on the PPRN organized by the prefecture in the districts, took place in Quartier d'Orléans in the presence of around fifty people.
As in Concordia, Sandy Ground and Grand Case, the inhabitants of Quartier do not understand why the construction constraints (indicated by the colors) are defined according to the economic stakes whereas the PPRN is a document "to present the risk and protect the populations ”, they underlined while taking up the words of the prefect.
"The PRRN crosses the hazard and the economic issue," said the head of the Deal. Without convincing. "The interests of those who have great financial capacity are therefore greater than those of the population who does not have financial capacity", concluded another Saint-Martinois.
Another element that the population has difficulty understanding, the prescriptions, in particular that providing for "moving sleeping places upstairs", at least above the reference level, ie the water level recorded after Irma. “During a cyclone, we don't go upstairs. We go to the ground floor to take refuge because upstairs there is the risk that the roof will fly up, "explains a Saint-Martinoise to state representatives.
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