'Small Boats', Chaguaramas
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By Boswell John - 1998
Carenage Bay
Marine
The small boats area is designated for a full service marina with boats and moorings for long boats and all facilities including laundry and restaurants, supermarkets, shops, ice, pipewater, food, provision, dry dock outhaul facilities, boat repair, servicing, wet and dry storage for small boats, a Cabana hotel on Pt Gourde with a club house and entertainment facilities at Hart Cut.
Hart Cut
Pt. Gourde may also be an interested site for dispersal of upper level housing connected with the marina hotel. Some landscaping will be necessary to maintain its natural beauty. Pt. Gourde is a respository of high quality limestone deposits of dolomitic character, a valuable imported input from the manufacture of steel and glass.
Provided suitable technology can be utilized, San Carlos Point to the southwest will be evaluated for mining this valuable resource, estimated at 6.3 million cubic yards, subject to environmental protection requirements and the landscaping region referred to above.
It is proposed that the area of approximately 45 acres will form the hub of developmental activity in Carenage Bay with a mixture, institutional, recreational, retail, commercial, convention and hotel facilities. These facilities will be developed in the area as follows:
The convention center, the central focus of the area will be refurbished, expanded and enhanced to 4 star level at the minimum. This will require an expanded area incorparating the western portion of Chagville Beach (whose beach facilities will be provided as the Convention Centre Hotel operator), the former gymnasium (now Magistrate Court) and the playground to the east in order to provide for hotel expansion, a swimming pool, gym, shopping mall, and recreational facility.
The area to be occupied by the hotel facility will be extra area bordered by the Western Main Road (which will be closed off on the south, Airway road and which will incidentally become the main thoroughfare) to the east or north, and Marine Drive to the west boundary of ocean ranch on the east, the Cano Ventura River on the Western Main Road to the north.
The remainder of the multiple use will include:a restaurant and a night club in the old power station building at the corner of Macqueripe Road and the Western Main Road. The continued development of the eastern half of Chagville beach with beach restaurant, spraypools, court games, change rooms, and beach facilities. The beach will be re-sanded on an ongoing basis to provide both clean underfoot terrain and an expanded shoreline. The relocation of the defense head quartes and the replacement of the C.D.A building with a new and expanded CDA headquartes. The expansion and enhancement of the Hotel school to internatinal standards as a training ground for employees for the growing tourism sector.
Marine Industrial Area
Marine - Chaguaramas Bay
In Alcan Bay, the marine theme is expanded in the form of a number of smaller marina and marine industrial facilities all along the waterfront. The area north of the industrial node already well supplied with foundation infrastructure will form the basis for an expanded industrial park specializing in light marine industries.
Housing
The slopes just north of the Western Main Road from Airway Road to the industrial area will be designated for residential housing with the exception of secluded valley which will house an Eco-Tourism resort with accommodation for 40 guest rooms, nature track walks ect.
The gasoline service station will be reactivated to service the expanded occupation of the peninsula.The Grandwood/Mt. Harrison Valley will form the focus of middle income housing servicing in the industrial area in the vicinity.
The former Chacacabana Hotel will be refurbished and expanded to a 90-room, 3 star beach hotel and entertainment complex.
Morne Catherine
A 25 acre plot in the Morne Catherine Valley is earmarked for a wildlife reserve facilitating the breeding and rehabilitation of the rich animal life already natural to this valley. The health forests have made an ideal setting for nature trails and other park activities.
Defense Force Facility
The defense force is scheduled to relocate out of the peninsula except for a presence in Omega Valley intended for a live firing range and training camp. The Coast Guard will then relocate to Teteron Bay and the present Coast Guard station at Staubles' Bay will be offered to the Caribbean Fisheries Training and Development Institute and the Ministry of Agriculture, Lands and Marine Resources for the establishment of a research and fishing port.
Scotland Bay
The road to Scotland Bay will be repaved and reopened to facilitate the development of an eco-tourism resort with several hotels, a Cabana Village and a small marina. Nature trails and park facilities will be developed.
The Islands
Monos Island is already pretty well-developed with the exception of Grand Ford Bay, 15 acres of marshy coastland. This area will be rehabilitated for an island retreat and resort.
Gaspar Grande is already well-developed. The Gasparee caves, however, will be the forcus of a study to determine the feasibility of establishing a network of caves already discovered and provide for a tourism centre built around the magnificent big caves.
Huevos does not lend itself too much development and will be preserved in its present state.
Chacachacare is the last remaining island. Some 50% of its 900 acres of vegetation should be preserved. Its many historical sites will be identified and restored. Much of the remainder is scheduled for development of a fully self-contained resort comprising several hotels, a free port, recreational facilities, shopping centre, water sports and a small marina.
Access to Chacachacare will be by fast ferry from the main terminal at Pier II, water will be provided by a desalinization plant, electricity will be independently generated, and other required infrastructure will be installed.
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