SANTO DOMINGO. – The Tourism Ministry asks the sectors interested in Puerto Plata’s tourism development to participate on Thursday in the public hearings on the reach of Decree 847-09 and advances of the Territorial Tourism Master Plan Cabarete 2015, aimed at eliminating the zone’s urban sprawl.

Tourism minister Francisco Javier Garcia said the decree regulates construction in Cabarete, where they’ll have to be built without jeopardizing the territory’s integrity, the characteristic urban landscape and natural resources and sports activities.

He said borders will be established in the regulatory Territorial Master Plan in each of that tourism zone’s environmental units, according to building suitability for vision and wind management criteria.

Garcia said the public hearings will begin at 2 p.m., in the hotel Viva Wyndham Tangerine Cabarete.

As to the Decree, the Tourism Minister also noted that president Leonel Fernandez approved the Territorial Tourism Master Plan (POTT) for the Cabarete Municipal District, elaborated by the Tourism Ministry, which establishes regulations such as the control of constructions based on their location and according the Plan’s guidelines.

He said the provisions also establish the division of the territory into environmental units which categorized in seven divisions, starting from the original parcels, existing models of implementation, natural coastal terrain features and the natural monument of the Cabarete and Goleta lagoons.

He said the Tourism Ministry’s Planning and Projects Department will be the agency which regulates the Plan’s controls and norms, which will have to be reviewed in a period of five years from the date of the Decree.

Source: DominicanToday.com