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Environmental Threats
and Challenges

Development:  Placencia Yacht Club
and Residential Lots
Placencia Caye
Condominiums:  Developer is Placencia Caye Resort and Marina Limited, a Condominium Development (principal, Mike Potoker).

The ECP for the development was signed on 31 May 2006.

The development includes:
  • Sixteen 2-bedroom condominiums in 4 buildings (each building approximately 30'x80' plus verandah)
  • Approx. 20'x50' pool house with 2nd floor apartment
  • Pool, approx. 20'x50'
  • Twenty-four boat slips of approx. 40' x 12'

DOE requirements for development:

  • Access by the public to temporary use of existing pier/boat docking facilities and other amenities
  • Household drainage pipes not allowed to empty directly into any wetland area or water body or surrounding environments.  Drainage pipes must empty into adequately designed and constructed elevated and lined leach fields.
  • Water to be piped across Sea from Placencia.
  • Sewage to be processed by an Aquatron 4 treatment system of a size large enough to adequately treat all sewage generated by the development.
  • Treated effluent from wastewater system may be used for irrigation if it meets the Effluent Limitations Regulations of 1995.
  • No wastewater to be discharged directly into any body of water.

Residential Lots:  Developer is Placencia Enterprises Limited, a Subdivision Development (principals, Henry Young, owner/manager and Michael Potoker, development partner)

The ECP for the residential lots was signed on 13 April 2011.  The development includes:

  • 57 residential lots

  • Existing canal expansion to 100'x180' with a 7 foot depth

  • Creation of new channel of 1,393' x 185' with a 10 foot depth at deepest area, plus a PVC seawall with a 6' wooden walkway dock along the north and east edge of the canal

  • 30,000 cubic yards of dredgedmaterial to fill lots to a height of 4 feet

  • Loading ramp

  • Board walks

  • L-shaped pier of approximately 100'x8' to the west and 125'x8' with an open palapa of 60'x20'

  • Preservation of 2/3 of the island in its natural state as a conservation reserve in perpetuity under the Registered Land Act, Chapter 194 and the National Parks System Act, Chapter 215. 

  • Restrictive covenants must require environmental clearance for any commercial or industrial development of any lot

Placencia Caye ECP (for condos)

Placencia Caye ECP (for lots)



Peninsula Citizens for Sustainable Development

General Delivery
Placencia, Belize
info@pcsdbelize.org
www.pcsdbelize.org
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