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Development Plan Sint Maarten, Dawn Beach + Point Blanche

Development Plan Sint Maarten

December 4th, 2012

Welcome to the Public Meeting of Dawn Beach + Point Blanche

Welcome by the initiator of this meeting

Deputy Prime Minister

William V. Marlin:

Ministry of Public Housing,

Spatial Planning, Environment

and Infrastructure

On behalf of Mr. William V.

Marlin we welcome you to this

meeting to discuss the points

of departure of the area

Dawn Beach and

Point Blanche

Great Bay

Greater Phillipsburg

Over the Pond – Suckergarden

Salt Pond

Hillside Conservation Areas

Geneva Bay

2 Development Plans

Dutch Quarter – Middle Region

Welcome by the hosts of this meeting

o Louis Brown: Acting Secretary General VROMI

o Tatiana: Moderator

o Hans Sellink: Dept. Head VROM

o Thijs Sommers: Project Leader

o Gerard Willemsen: Process Manager

o Mariska Ruiter: Project leader RHDHV

Agenda

o Explanation about the Development Plan

o Topics to discuss:

o Traffic

o Tourism

o Industry

o Residential

o Nature

o Culture

o Legal framework for possible future development

o To designate and/or reserve land for desired use

o To prevent undesired development

o To offer legal security to residents about future development

It’s not an ‘Action Plan’; it’s a framework plan:

o Regulations

o Elucidation

And, we will make it in consultation with you

Purpose of the Development Plan

It is a framework plan: reserve space in terms of zoning with a

scope of 10 years

Not an action plan, a development plan does not include:

o Maintenance policies

o A plan of approach for maintenance

o Detailed designs of roads, public facilities etc.

Above mentioned issues are also important, but should be

addressed in other plans/ policies with a different scope

Scope of the Development Plan

How it is made

The plan will be drawn up in steps:

On tonight’s agenda:

o Present situation

o What’s going on

o What problems exist

o The starting points

The first meeting tonight

1st public meeting: tonight

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11 View over the valley

Dawn Beach - pm titels

Oyster Pond

12 Oyster Pond

13 Oyster Bay, Dawn Beach

The Westin

15 Oyster Pond Road

16 Guana Bay Tamarind Hill

Tamarind Hill

18 Red Pond / Aquarius

Guana Bay

20 View over the Atlantic Ocean and Guana Key of Pelican

21 Point Blanche, Prison

22 Point Blanche seen from the Humming Bird Road

23 Humming Bird Road

Point Blanche - pm titels

Point Blanche Hill

25 Devil’s Cupper

26 A. Cyrus Wathey Cruise Facilities

Pm Vromi

Cargo facility

27 Cruise facility

Juancho Yrausquin Boulevard

29 Juancho Yrausquin Boulevard

Present situation

Main topics

TRAFFIC: Roads

TOURISM: Tourism and Recreation

INDUSTRY: Industry and Commercial functions

RESIDENTIAL: Housing

Public space

NATURE: Water and Landscape

CULTURE: Cultural Heritage and Archaeology

TRAFFIC: Roads

Public space

Main objectives:

o Improve accessibility – Reduce congestion

Issues to discuss:

o Congestion:

congested roads towards

Dawn Beach and Point

Blanche

o Accessibility:

Large residential areas with

only one access road

Traffic

Welgelegen Road

Bush Road

Large areas with only one connection to the road network Roads Road blocked by wall: Queen Conch Road - Wavy Clam Road

Traffic

Tropial Road

Melford Hazel Road

Guana Bay Road

Oyster Pond Road

Juancho Yrausquin BLVD

Improve secondary road system

Traffic

Issues:

1. Reconnect and beautify

Queen Conch / Wavy

Clam Road

2. Improve and beautify

Melford Hazel Road

3. Strategic new

connection Point

Blanche – Vineyard ?

Oyster Pond Road

Melford Hazel Road

Guana Bay Road

Tropial Road

Mountaindove Road

Improved road system

Traffic

Starting point:

Improve road network:

o Reconnect and

beautify Queen Conch

/ Wavy Clam Road

o Improve and beautify

Melford Hazel Road

o Reserve space for

strategic new

connection Point

Blanche – Vineyard

(when feasable)

Mountaindove Road

Tropial Road

Guana Bay Road

Melford Hazel Road

Oyster Pond Road

TRAFFIC: Roads and foot / bicycle paths

Public space

Main objectives:

o Make sure there’s enough space for tourism and

recreation

o Diversification and quality of the tourism product

Main tourism areas

1 Oyster Pond / Dawn

2 Red Pond Estate

3 Great Bay Marina/

Harbor Village

4 Green hills

Oyster Pond, existing marina / rights

Existing marina

Oyster Bay resort:

Existing permit,

not yet fully in use

Oyster Bay Resort

Source: Website Oyster Bay Beach Resort, Sint Maarten

Issue:

o Discussion: further marina expansion versus carrying capacity

of Oyster Pond

Red Pond: Aquarius Resort

o Planning Permit granted:

Source: Website Aquarius Beachfront Condo Resort/Residences Spa and Casino

o 2012: Aquarius Resort, what now?

o Possible options:

- Accomodate original plans?

- Downsize ambition, possible other functions?

Great Bay Marina – Harbor Village

o Connecting Philipsburg and Harbor Village

o Expanding tourist area

Source picture: Development Perspective Sint Maarten Philipsburg Greater Great Bay Area, Almere April 2003 (Sint Maarten, Gemeente Almere en TKA Architecture + Urban Design)

Great Bay Marina – Harbor Village

o Existing situation: mixed use Philipsburg - Bobby’s Marina –

Harbor Village – Port area

o Many tourists form cruise ships

o Few tourist attractions, few facilities

Footpath cruise terminal towards Philipsburg

o Existing situation: poor conditions for tourists who want to walk

from the cruise terminal to Philipsburg; no shade, lots of traffic,

unattractive

Possible functions

o Intensifying and enlarging public

waterfront

o Enlargement of the harbor basin, to

accomodate charter sailboats and yachts

o Boardwalk along the Bay / around the

marinas

o Maintaining Bobby’s Marina

o Cafes, restaurants, bistros and pubs

o Music entertainment: for instance Great

Bay Jazz festival, disco

o Tourist shops

o Scuba-diving and snorkling tours and

shops, fishing charters

o Aquarium, planetarium, museum,

theatre

Development Perspective Sint Maarten Philipsburg Greater Great Bay Area, Almere April 2003 (Sint Maarten, Gemeente Almere en TKA Architecture + Urban Design)

Development corridor, possible lay out

o Connecting Philipsburg - Bobby’s Marina – Harbour Village –

Port area

o Expanding tourist area

Development Perspective Sint Maarten Philipsburg Greater Great Bay Area, Almere April 2003 (Sint Maarten, Gemeente Almere en TKA Architecture + Urban Design)

Green hills

o Examples existing trails rural area

Green hills around Dawn Beach and Pointe Blanche

Suggestion: Reserve space for picknick / view areas overlooking the bays and ocean

Main tourism areas

Starting points:

1 Oyster Pond / Dawn Beach:

Enhance existing situation

2 Red Pond Estate:

Downsize ambitions

3 Great Bay Marina / Harbor Village:

Reserve space for touristic

waterfront development

(as shown before)

4 Green hills:

Attention for hiking paths,

picknick and view areas

TRAFFIC: Roads and other infrastructure

INDUSTRY: Industry, Commercial and Public functions

Public space

Main objectives:

o Reserve enough space for important economic driving

forces of Sint Maarten: Cruise and Cargo facilities

Industry, Commercial and Public Functions

Cargo Facility (water)

Cargo Facility (land)

Offices (hill side)

Prison

Cruise Facilities

(item Tourism)

Cargo facility

o Cargo falicity: No plans for expansion (within 10 years)

o Starting Point: Maintaining present situation

Office area Vineyard

o Discussion: Expansion office area to the north and south?

o Offices not in front of Monumental Vineyard Building

Prison

o Existing Prison in Point Blanche area remains

o Plans for justice park in other plan area (Cay Hill)

o Renovation

Industry, Commercial and Public Functions

Starting point:

o Cargo Facility: Maintain present area and functions

o Vineyard area (hill side): Reserve space for offices

o Prison: Maintain present function and area

Public space

Main objectives:

o Residential quality mix

o Mix of spacious houses and

multi family dwellings

o Space available to increase

density in some areas, in

particular in Guana Bay

Housing

Guana Bay, Hillside and Seaside

Point Blanche

Present situation

Desired future situation

Suggested starting point:

o Increase mix with multi

family houses if

possible and when

desired

Public space

Main objectives:

o Sub-center close to residential areas

Small scale center in residential area

Issue:

o Few commercial and

public functions in

Guana Bay and Dawn

Beach area

Suggestion:

o Reserve space for

small scale center in

residential areas?

No small scale center needed, (?) Desire for small scale center (?)

Public space

Main objectives:

o Preservation of ponds, coastal areas and natural gutters

o Preserve green scenery on Sint Maarten

o The ‘natural gutters’ are the

lowest places where rainwater

accumulates

o Some of these gutters are built

over with houses and roads

o These places have a flooding risk

Starting points:

Protect and restore

‘natural gutters’

Protect the ponds

Oyster Pond

Red Pond

Situation now Principle of design for future development

Water retention

Natural gutters

Starting point: Protect and restore the ‘natural gutters’ and reserve space for water retention

Landscape

Green hills are vital for nature, landscape and tourism on Sint Maarten Green hill tops: part of Development plan Hillside Conservation Areas

Landscape

Built up area with possibility of expansion for residential and/ or commercial purposes Reservation for nature, green and small scale recreation (hiking)

Starting point: Preserve the green areas that are not required for housing

Public space

Main objectives:

o Sustainable maintanance of cultural heritage of Sint

Maarten

Culture

Issues to discuss:

o Heritage elements (monuments and old trees)

o Archaeology

St. Peter’s Battery Venus House at Gibbs Bay

Heritage elements

Starting point: Preserve monuments, wall patterns and old trees

Source: Ministry VROMI – St Maarten Archeological Center / Bureau Monumenten & Archeologie Amsterdam

Archaeology

Starting point:

o Areas with high archaeological

expectation: research should

be conducted prior to

development of the area

What’s next?

o 2nd public meeting:

- Design Development Plan

Discussion: your input please

o Roadblocks

o Oyster Bay Resort: further marina expansion versus carrying

capacity of Oyster Pond

o Red Pond: Aquarius Resort

o Office area Vineyard: expansion office area to the north and

Large areas with only one connection to the road network Roads Road blocked by wall: Queen Conch Road - Wavy Clam Road

Traffic

Tropial Road

Melford Hazel Road

Guana Bay Road

Oyster Pond Road

Juancho Yrausquin BLVD

Oyster Bay Resort

Source: Website Oyster Bay Beach Resort, Sint Maarten

Issue:

o Discussion: further marina expansion versus carrying capacity

of Oyster Pond

Oyster Pond, existing marina / rights

Existing marina

Oyster Bay resort:

Existing permit,

not yet fully in use

o 2012: Aquarius Resort, what now?

o Possible options:

- Accomodate original plans?

- Downsize ambition, possible other functions?

Office area Vineyard

o Discussion: Expansion office area to the north and south?

o Offices not in front of Monumental Vineyard Building

Thank you for your attention You are invited to give additional input via our e-mail:

zoningsxm@gmail.com

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