CORALations_Objection_Centro de Comercio Culebra

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P. O. Box 750

Isla de Culebra, PR 007751-877-77CORAL / 1-877-77(2-6725)

(o) 787-556-6234 (f) 1-212-428-6717@email: [email protected]

July 27, 2010

Oficina del Comisionado de Asunto MunicipalesApartado Postal 70167San Juan, PR 00936-8167

Ave. Ponce de Len #255[Edif. MCS Plaza

Piso 5 suite 500 y Piso 6

San Juan ]

Hon Abraham Pea NievesAlcalde de CulebraApartado Postal 189Culebra PR 00775

Edward Jennings, Jr.Regional Administrator

(Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Puerto Rico,South Carolina, and Tennessee)U.S. Department of Housing and Urban DevelopmentFive Points Plaza40 Marietta Street, N.W., 2nd FloorAtlanta, Georgia 30303-2806

Armando FanaActing Field Office DirectorFederal Office of Housing and Urban DevelopmentSan Juan Field OfficeParque Las Americas I

235 Federico Costa Street, Suite 200San Juan, P.R. 00918-1322

Carl Soderberg, Director

U.S. EPA Region II

Caribbean Environmental Protection Division

Edif Centro Europa Apt 417

1492 Avenida Ponce de Leon

San Juan PR 00907-4127


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Edwin Muiz,

Field SupervisorUnited States Fish and Wildlife Service

Boqueron Field Office

P.O. Box 491,

Boquern, Puerto Rico 00622

Jim Lecky

Director

Office of Protected Resources

National Marine Fisheries Service

1315 East-West Highway

Silver Spring, MD 20910

RE: Objection to the release of Federal Funding for 04-AB-21-002 and or 04-FC-21-002Centro de Comercio, Playa Sardinas II, Isla de Culebra Puerto Rico

Objection to release of funds.

We are writing at this time to object to the further release of federal funding for this project under24 CFR sec. 58.73 governing the environmental review procedures for entities assuming HUDenvironmental responsibilities under the permissible basis for objection listed in 24 CFR sec.58.75, b, c, d and e if as documents seem to indicate that the prior damage done fromdeforestation to this area in 2007, was accomplished with money allocated from an earlierphase of this project.

About CORALationsCORALations is a non-profit ocean conservation organization based on the island of Culebra,Puerto Rico. The organization founded in Puerto Rico in 1995 and has been based on Culebrasince 1999. The organizations mission is To Conserve Nurture and Education and the focus ofour conservation initiatives is the coral reef ecosystem. CORALations holds an organizational

membership with the Clean Water Network, a coalition of over 1200 organizations nation widethat work toward implementing stronger clean water legislation to protect coastal wildlife andcommunities. CORALations has developed a science based tourism initiative for the islandwhich attracts marine researchers and educators who utilize local laboratory facilities at thelocal public Eco-School on the island in exchange for the educational integration of local at riskyouth into marine biological research projects. This educational tourism is now a growing sectorof the sustainable tourism economy bringing public benefit and low impact educational tourismdollars to the island as visiting scientists and groups stay in local guest houses, use localtransportation options, shop at local stores and eat at local restaurants.

PurposeWe are writing in response to this, the first public notice of any kind we have seen regarding theabove referenced project, and which is announcing the release of Federal funds from a HUDCommunity Development Block Grant to the Municipality of Culebra and circulated in thePrimera Hora on the 13th of July 2010.

BackgroundDeforestation we now learn may have been associated with this project damaged coastalwaters Federally listed at that time as Critical Habitat for Green Sea Turtles (Chelonia mydas)[1994] and was photographed on the 4th of June, 2007 [Attachment A]A formal complaint was filed with the local Department of Natural and Environmental Resourcesfor failure of land clearing activities to comply to local and Federal requirements for the


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implementation of an erosion control plan QC-16-07. Local government requires a Plan CESon file in the office of the environmental quality board prior to any land clearing activities, andcorresponding measures to control erosion implemented at the site of the clearing. This projectset a few hay bales on top of what became with rains a glacier of mud impacting coastal waters.Based on our previous investigations, the site cleared had no plan CES on file at this time withthe local environmental quality board and no NPDES storm water discharge permit from theUnited States Environmental Protection Agency required for any clearing over one acre.

Aggressive clearing for projects underway across the island and for which the community was inno way notified, prompted a series of protests culminating in a DECLARATION presented to thethen Governor Acevedo Villa on the 13th of August, 2007 from the community renouncing theenvironmental harm and the Governments failure to comply with their Constitutional obligationsof meaningful public participation. At these protests, banners reading where is my right for a

public hearing? [Attachment B]

The 2007 land clearing was in excess of even combined projects only recently listed in the oneannouncement found in these documents with erosion impacting coastal waters listed as criticalhabitat for the Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) 1994, with the Critical Habitat listings forcoastal waters or corals [2008] not referenced in the letter of Exclusion from the United States

Fish and Wildlife Service and with no indication if proper Federal agency was notified.

The area proposed enjoys a low-density, rural and residential designation of RO-1C[Attachment C] where R indicates residential, O indicates special or rustic to minimizefragmentation in order to protect the ecological integrity of the island consistent with Culebrapublic policy, 1 indicates a density of one house per cuerda or acre and C indicates the bestdesignated use for the lands which is conservation. It is possibly this RO zoning waschanged in the PR Legislators office to RU residential urbanizable in June of 2008, but therewere no public hearings on record for this change on the island of Culebra. Zoning is stillResidential. The1975 Culebra Segment of the Coastal Zone Management Plan recommendedthe low density special zoning for Culebra to protect the islands spectacular coastal waters andcoral reefs from damage caused by upland coastal development on erodable soils. This was

incorporated at the planning level and until the last decade protected coastal waters fromunsustainable development. All of Culebra is listed within the coastal zone and many steepsloping upland areas are volcanic, erodable and pose a significant threat of contamination intocoastal waters important to tourism, subsistence fishing and commercial fishing. Impacts fromthe deforestation were supported by observations submitted in the March 2010 ArcheologicalReport describing the soil type of the area and reporting previous damage to the areainvestigated by heavy equipment terracing the hills to the east. The photos in Attachment A,and taken on June 4th, 2007 demonstrate deforestation with heavy equipment at the proposedsite and possibly funded by monies already allocated for this project.

After learning of the proposed allocation of federal funding for a shopping mall, we obtainedcopies of the file on the 15th of July, 2010 from the municipal government. This was the firsttime we learned of the project. The receipt from the municipality to pay for copies of the fileindicates Revision Ambiental de Proyecto Centro de Comercio, owever none of the documentscopied from this municipal file bore that title.

Project proponents include a section entitled: Proceso de Revisin Seccin 106 para elproyecto:Diseo y construccin de Centro de Comercio Playa Sardinas, en el Municipio deCulebra Fase I de III. 04-AB-21-002 Propuesta CDBG 2004 Mun. de Culebra Oficina delComisiondo de Asuntos Municipales, Marzo de 2006, Hon. Abraham Pea Nieves, Alcalde,Preparado por: Muos and Company, Research and Training Services, Marzo de 2006.Included in this section was a document entitled Aviso Publico and dated the 27th of


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September, 2005, in a section entitled Evidencia De Participacin Ciudadana, Aviso Prensa,Asistencia Audiencia Pblica This document references the Centro de Comercio Project twice,but following and in affiliation with a very popular and environmentally benign bike trail proposal.This section also includes a document entited: Registro de Inspeccin de Documentos whichlisted projects and then included a petition style signature page. This document included theCentro de Comercio project number only and then referencing again the description of thedescription of the very popular bicycle trail proposal. [Attachment D]

We interviewed one of the people who signed the Registro de inspecci Nadeen DeCicco,was the only person of the three to sign that was not a municipal employee. All othersignatures were from municipal employees. She indicated that what she thought wassigning was a petition listing projects that sound beneficial for the island, and sent anemail which states same. In her email she stresses that a shopping center was not listedon the list of projects. She wrote Biblioteca on the sheet because she has been an advocateof the creation of a public library for the island an in fact today now manages one paid forthrough private contributions. [Attachment D]

One of the most important missions of our organization is to comment on the environmentalsustainability of proposed projects and we never saw any of the notifications allegedly posted

and referenced in this document at any of the locations indicated. We further question if thelocation of the municipal police station even existed at this time because it was ourunderstanding that this was possibly eliminated in 2004, however we would need more time tosubstantiate this.

Public Benefit:Culebras only industry today is nature tourism and a strip mall would both impact the tourismproduct while damaging small existing locally owned micro-enterprises by cutting a very smalleconomic pie even smaller. The 2000 census has the population of Culebra under 2000. Onehalf to one quarter of the population are minors. 2010 census information is not yet accessiblebut since the initial 2004 proposal Culebra now enjoys a barber shop, a beauty salon, a newlaundry mat that are all locally owned. There are two small clothing stores owned by locals that

sell school uniforms and essentials. There is one local tourism shop that sells cloths to visitorsand locals and five tourism stores that sell clothing to locals and tourists created by long termresidents not originally born on Culebra. Culebra has one local doctor who offers office visits forthe uninsured for $20 and his business would likely not survive competition. The ability ofCulebra to hold a pharmacy or dental office has been less dependant on location and more onattracting professionals to hold the positions even when free facilities are supplied. A nationalfast food chain would detract rather than enhance local tourism product. It would furthercompromise nutritional health of a community suffering high rate of cancer, diabetes and otherdegenerative illnesses and National pharmaceutical and fast food chains would not be able toserve such a small population base. Recent projects funded through department of agricultureto create open air market two years ago remain unutilized to date. Culebras nature tourismproduct cannot afford another scar but local community is desperately in need of future HUDfunding for existing building renovation. In small traditionally underserved communities bublicbenefits should be accessed by the people through the process of a legitimate public hearing.

SpecificsWhile we are not lawyers, we did our best in referencing applicable sections of CR 24CFR PART 58 as was required by Sec. 58.73 regarding the submission of objectionsthat meet the conditions and procedures set forth in subpart H, and referencing theappropriate grounds on which to base objection. These objections were based on ourdata included regarding previous land clearing activities, lack of meaningful public


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participation, presence of hazardous materials in proposed site and on review of thedocument available for public view and copied for us by the Municipality of Culebra, inits entirety on July 15, 2010.

Objection Sec. 58.75b: The project failed to make one of the two findings pursuant toSec 58.40. From the documents we reviewed we see neither finding. Further if aFONSI was declared, which is not evident in any document reviewed, we saw no

evidence of required public notifications submitted in this documentation.

Objection Sec. 58.75c: The responsible entity has omitted one or more of the steps setforth in subpart E specifically the project fails to comply with Sec 58.5 part (j) regardingcompliance to Executive Order 12898 Environmental Justice as it pertains to access andpublic participation based on the following:

1) the public notice documents confuses a popular bike trail proposal with the shoppingmall project. 2) there are only four signatures on the document stating those peoplereviewed all project documents. The only one not on the municipal payroll indicated inwriting that she neither reviewed project documents nor attended a public hearing,but instead believed she was signing in support of good projects like bike trails that

made no mention of a shopping center 3) the fact that the public notice dated 27 ofSeptember, 2005 and that many citizens never saw, indicates prior approval on allprojects listed thereby removing any point for meaningful public participation, 4) the factthat on the Aviso Publico document, the shopping center is buried in a description ofa bike trail and on the Registo document, the project title for a shopping mall iscompletely replaced with the popular proposal of the bike trail which appears with theshopping mall project title. 5) Parts of the document submitted are written in English andpart is in Spanish. Most of the local population speak Spanish only. Translations werenot provided. 6) No notice for this or other projects regarding RROF or any otherFederal funding related announcements consistent with 24 CFR Part 58 have beenposted after the summer of last year on the announcement page of the Oficina delComisionado de Asuntos Municipales. [Attachment D]

Objection Sec. 58.75c: The responsible entity has omitted one or more of the steps setforth in subpart E specifically the project fails to include documentation of compliancefrom the PR Planning Board in the documents available for review at the Municipality ofCulebra to sec. 58.5 referencing compliance to the Coastal Zone Management Act.

Objection Sec. 58.75c: The responsible entity has omitted one or more of the steps setforth in subpart E specifically the project fails to comply with sec. 58.5 the Endangeredspecies Act when it failed to include or evaluate compliance to Federal Critical Habitatlistings for coastal waters of the project site located within the US Coastal Zone andnotify the correct Federal Agency for review, the National Marie Fisheries Servicedivision of NOAA for meaningful input. However we acknowledge that this burden would

fall on USFWS who should have triggered section seven evaluation from NOAA afterreceiving notice of this federally funded project proposed in the Coastal Zone.

Objection Sec. 58.75e: The recipient or other participants in the development processmay have committed funds and undertaken activities not authorized by this part beforeapproval of the environmental certification by HUD or State Documents for review at themunicipality indicate that funds were possibly already committed from this project andused to deforest the site before the environmental certification by HUD was completed.We saw no evidence of any environmental certification from the State included in thedocuments available for review at the municipality and would need more than the 15 day


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limit during summer holidays to investigate compliance of this project to State regs. Nocompliance documents were submitted in this document, with the exception of a blanketexemption letter from the USFWS limited to terrestrial endangered species located onthe project site and possibly in violation of the Coastal Zone Management Act for failureto mention or evaluate impacts from the project to protected Coastal Resources. TheUSFWS blanket exemption letterincorrectlysites compliance with criteria #4 in theblanket clearance letter issued for Federally-Funded and Authorized Projects. Criteria #4

requires the re-building of a building maintaining existing footprint and/orwithin pre-existing grassedor paved areas, and that the lighting associated to the new facilities arenot visible directly or indirectly from a beach. The area only qualifies as a pre-existinggrassed area because previous heavy equipment work in 2007 deforested the entirewatershed. The tall guinea grass typically colonizes areas is visible in site visit photosfrom both the VI Tree Boa investigation and the Archeological report. The archeologicalreport submitted interviewed neighbors and also concluded from aerial photos submittedthat the area had no pre-existing structure being rebuilt. There was no lightingspecifications associated in any of the plans available for review at the municipality for adetermination to be made on their possible impacts from either direct or indirect impactsto beaches. Strong lighting associated with strip mall security measures could easilycontribute to indirect lighting problems that affect coastal natural resources from sky

glow as well as further impact the star gazer tourism populations from the light pollution.We have not had time to investigate if the USFWS failed to initiate their non-discretionary duties of oversight to trigger Section 7 oversight for compliance from otherrelevant Federal agencies responsible for the protection of protected species in offshorewaters Federally listed as Critical Habitat, but it would not be the first time they did so.Damage to land from the 2007 clearing evidenced in CORALations photos submittedwith this document, the boa report and archeological report. Further the date of theUSFWS letter of exemption included in this report is dated after the 2007 deforestation.

Objection Sec. 58.75e: The recipient or other participants in the development processmay have committed funds and undertaken activities not authorized by this part beforeapproval of the environmental certification by HUD or State The site visit for the

presence of VI Tree Boa [November 2009] were conductedafter

the dramaticdeforestation in 2007 and references damage to the site from deforestation. It istherefore no surprise the endangered animal common to these coastal areas was notpresent

Objection Sec. 58.75d: There is no reference of public notice submitted to the press inany of these documents reviewed. The only notice observed by our org was the oneJuly 13th that made us aware of the release of the federal funds for this project.This, the only public notice information submitted in the documents we reviewed, listsmultiple projects and if FONSI applies to any of the projects (which we also did not seeevidence of) then the notice fails to comply with sec 58.43 compliance to FONSI Noticerequirements likely for all the projects. Sec 58.75 d allows objection if the entity hasomitted one or more of the steps set forth in subpart G where we contend that the sec58.59 2, 3, 4, of Subpart G were all violated in this traditionally underserved smallcommunity also subject to Environmental Justice executive order which insuresmeaningful public participation. The project clearing was controversial enough tomobilize folks in the street on the visit of the governor. The nature of the project iscomplex and threatens to impact other small island local micro enterprises nowstruggling to maintain in compromised economy. So far, four signatures, three of whichare municipal employees are the only evidence of public participation submitted in thisdocument and this was obtained when confusing the shopping center with apopular bike trail as described above. [Attachments B and D]


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Objection 58.75 b: It was not clear from the documents reviewed if applicants obtained a

categorical exclusion (Sec 58.35) based on the USFWS exemption. However, all ofCulebra is considered Coastal Zone, and all of the waters of Culebra are listed and werelisted at the time the project damaged coastal waters in June of 2007, as Critical Habitatfor endangered Sea Turtles (Chelonia mydas.) As of 2008, the waters are also listed asCritical Habitat for threatened species of coral. Therefore a Categorical Exclusion could

not be obtained for any project on Culebra, all of which is located within the coastalzone, without violating the Endangered Species Act, given that bydefinition of theCoastal Zone, any activity which takes place in the coastal zone has the potential toimpact Federally listed and protected coastal waters of Culebra. Furhter, Sec. 58.35indicates that a categorical exclusion is not permitted where the required change inzoning from residential to non-residential would be required.

Objection 58.75c: The document reviewed and the municipality submitted does notcomply to 24 CFR, Subpart E - as it failed to submit requirements as described by sec.58.40 parts a - e completely, and sec. 58.40 part f as it pertains to compliancerequirements established in Sec 58.5. The area is littered with hazardous unexplodedordinance as documented by the US Army Corps of Engineers who based a priority map

created for the clean up of unexploded ordinance left by prior military activities on a riskevaluation. The military contractors, Parsons, used risk evaluation based on actualfindings, historic information and use to form their conclusions. According to theresulting priorities map for UXO clean up, the area indicated for development of thisshopping center is marked in Yellow and considered Medium priority for the clean up ofthe bombs. [Attachment E]

Sincerely,

Mary Ann Lucking

Director

Enc. Attachments A - E


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CORALations July 27 2010 Objection to the release of Federal funding #04-AB-21-002

Attachment A

Description:

Photos taken of dramatic damage to proposed site from heavy equipment onJune 6, 2007.

Also available for high resolution download and to verify photograph propertiesat: http://coralations.phanfare.com/2086842


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Attachment B

Description: DECLARATION TO THE GOVERNOR, August 13, 2007

Complete Slide Show of Protest and Presentation available online at:http://coralations.phanfare.com/2087098


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Reminiscent to the times of the US Navy occupation of the island, Culebra residents

united to present to the Governor a Declaration regarding the destruction of their

island and its related nature tourism economy by the dramatic projects devoid of

meaningful public participation.

24 CFR Sec. 58.59 looks towards the degree of interest or controversy surroundinga project as demonstrated here by this street protest and DECLARATION

presented to the Governor specifically stating abuse to the lands and failure to meet

constitutional obligations of meaningful public participation. This is an

Environmental Justice issue.

(scroll down for English translation)

DECLARACION

NOSOTROS, EL PUEBLO DE LA ISLA DE CULEBRA, fundado como municipalidaddesde 1880 por la Corona Espaola y en la actualidad un municipio del Estado Libre

Asociado de Puerto Rico,

E X P R E S A M O S:

Culebra es una isla de excepcional belleza, patrimonio natural de todo Puerto Rico. Sus

hijos hemos sido sus fieles guardianes. Desde que el pueblo culebrense logr que la

Marina de los Estados Unidos, en el ao 1975, dejara de usar sus tierras para maniobrasmilitares, este pueblo se ha levantado de los embates de varios huracanes. Culebra ha

trabajado arduamente para que sus hijos y los hijos de sus hijos tengan una mejor calidadde vida y un futuro de paz y tranquilidad.

Ahora nos enfrentamos a una nueva amenaza con la llegada de proyectistas einversionistas que pretenden arrebatarnos nuestro patrimonio natural y nuestra calidad de

vida para su beneficio econmico personal.

Los culebrenses no permitiremos que intereses ajenos a nuestro bienestar acaben connuestras riquezas naturales y atenten contra nuestro derecho natural al disfrute de nuestra

tierra. Culebra quiere progresar pero los proyectos que han llegado a nuestras costas no

han contado con nosotros, no tienen nada que ver con nuestra cultura y estilo de vida y noresultan en nuestro beneficio econmico.

Entendemos que el progreso no se mide por la cantidad de mega proyectos tursticos quese construyan. Estos slo benefician a sus dueos y a nosotros nos queda una frgil

infraestructura sobrecargada, serios daos a nuestros valiosos recursos naturales y el fin

de nuestra calidad de vida. Nuestro verdadero futuro econmico se ve amenazado por la

destruccin de lo que atrae al turista a nuestras costas: nuestras riquezas naturales ynuestra calidad de vida.


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Entendemos que el gobierno ha fallado en proteger nuestro derecho inalienable de

participar en decisiones que nos afectan. Ha sido responsable de la destruccin devaliosos recursos naturales y ha puesto en peligro nuestra calidad de vida y futuro

econmico.

POR LO TANTO, EL PUEBLO DE CULEBRA LE EXIGE AL GOBIERNO DEPUERTO RICO:

1. Que cumpla con la ley y lleven a cabo vistas pblicas sobre cualquier proyectoresidencial o turstico que se contemple para la isla y que declare una moratoria de un ao

para investigar los proyectos propuestos y recoger el insumo del pueblo.

2. Que prepare un plan de desarrollo econmico para Culebra con la participacin del

pueblo de Culebra y que el mismo tenga como prioridad el progreso de sus residentes y la

conservacin de nuestro patrimonio natural.

3. Que se proceda inmediatamente con un plan de restauracin masiva para remediar losdaos ecolgicos que han causado los proyectos existentes.

En Culebra, Puerto Rico, 13 de agosto de 2007

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DECLARATION

WE, THE PEOPLE OF THE ISLAND OF CULEBRA, founded as a municipality since1880 by the Spanish Crown and now a city of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico,

DECLARE THE FOLLOWING:

Culebra is an island of exceptional beauty, natural heritage of Puerto Rico. His children

have been their faithful guardians. Since the town got culebrense the U.S. Navy in 1975,

it failed to use their land for military maneuvers, this town has risen from the ravages ofseveral hurricanes. Culebra has worked hard for their children and their children's

children have a better quality of life and a future of peace and tranquility.

Now we face a new threat with the arrival of planners and investors seeking to take away

our natural heritage and our quality of life for personal financial gain.

The culebrenses not allow outside interests to our well being finished with our natural

resources and violate our natural right to the enjoyment of our land. Culebra want to

progress but the projects that have come to our shores have not told us, have nothing to

do with our culture and lifestyle and are not in our economic benefit.

We understand that progress is not measured by the number of mega tourism projects to


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be built. They will only benefit their owners and we are overburdened infrastructure is a

fragile, serious damage to our precious natural resources and to our quality of life. Ourreal economic future is threatened by the destruction of what attracts tourists to our

shores: our natural resources and our quality of life.

We understand that the government has failed to protect our inalienable right toparticipate in decisions that affect us. He has been responsible for the destruction of

valuable natural resources and has jeopardized our quality of life and economic future.

THEREFORE, THE TOWN OF CULEBRA DEMANDS TO THE GOVERNMENT OF

PUERTO RICO:

1. To comply with the law and conduct public hearings on any residential or touristic

project is envisaged for the island and declare a moratorium of one year to investigate the

proposed projects and collect the input of the people.

2. To prepare a plan for economic development in Culebra with the participation of thepeople of Culebra and that it has as its priority the progress of its residents and the

preservation of our natural heritage.

3. Proceed immediately with a massive restoration plan to remedy the environmental

damage they have caused the existing projects.

In Culebra, Puerto Rico, August 13, 2007


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Attachment C

Description:

Proposed Zoning Map Prepared by FEMA Project Impact Studies in 2000.


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Attachment D

Description:

Confusing public participation documents included by project proponents.

Email from Nadeen DeCicco commenting on what she thought she was signing.

Copy of Announcements page for la Oficina del Comisoinado de AsuntoMunicipales made July 26, 2010.


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Evidencia De Participacion CiudadanaAviso PrensaAsistencia Audiencia PUblica


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(ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO MUNICIPIO DE CULEBRA ,AVISO PUBLICO

El Municipio de Culebra se propane ~ ~ g r a m a r los siguientes p ~ r e c t o s aprobados para diferentesaiios-programa por la Oficina del ComislOnado de Asuntos M u m C 1 P ~ ~ con fondos del ProgIl!JIlRCDBG (Community Development .Block Grant) del ~ a r t a m ~ t o de V1V1enda: Federal, a los fines de'"justar el uso- de los fondos a necesldades que han surgldo posterior a la aprobaclon de los fondos:

1. Proyecto aprobado: Adquisici6n de dos cuerdas en terreno vacante en la Comunidad EspecialBarriada Clark, Bahia Lobina, Sector Playa Sardina IT para la fullJra construcci6n de unestacionamiento en el Municipio. Primem de Dos Fases. 02-AB:"21-001; Se reorogran:uni paracrear el siguiente proyecto: DesarroUo de infraestructura, solares i n d ~ t r i a l e s para el ParqueIndustrial en el barrio Playa Sardinas 1, carr. 251 en el Munkipio de Culebra. Fase 1 de 11.2. Proyecto aorobado: Demolici6n de edificio, diseiio y estudios para la futura c o n s t r u c c i ~ n deviviendas de interes social enclavadas en la comunidad especial Villa Muiieco. Prllnera y UnicaFase, 02-FC-21-00J; Se rewvgramara para crear el siguiente proyecto: DesarroUo deinfraestructura para liz construcdon de vivlenda de bueres social en una cuerda turenovacante propiedad del Municipio en el Sector La Pica del Barrio P/4ya Sardinas en el

Municipio de Culebra, Fase 1de L3. Proyecto aprobado: Construcci6n biblioteca municipal en el sector Dewey, carr. 250, Km. 0.4Culebra, PRo Primera y Unica Fase. 03-AB-2I-OOI; Se reprogramara para cambiar ubicaci6n a:ConstrUCCWIJ biblioteca municipal en el Barrio Phlya Sardinas I, carr. 250, interior, en elMunkipio de Culebra. Fase 1de L4. Provecto aprobado: ~ n s t r u c c i 6 n de estacionamiento pUblico en dos cuerdas de terrenos vacanteen la couwnidad especial, Baniada Clark,Bo. Playa Sardinas IT, Sector Bahia LobiDa. Segundade Dos Fases. 03-FC-21-001; Se rcorogramarA pal'! crear el siguiente proyecto: paarroUo Ikin/ra.estructura, solares industriIzUs paN el PllIYJlle Industrial en el barrio Playa Sardinas 1,carr. 251 en el Municipio Ik Cuiebra. Fase II Ik II .5. Provecto aorobado: ConstnlCCi6n paseo peatonal de bicicleta, carretera 251 desde aeropuerto

Benjamin Rivera, basta balneario". Fasc I de m. 04-AB-21-002, Se reprogramarA para aearelsiguiente proyecto: Diselio y construcdOn del Centro de Comercio Phlyas Sardinas, en elMunicipio de Culebra, Fase 1 tk IlL6. Provecto aorobado: Construcci6n paseo peatonal de bicicleta, carretera 251 desde aeropuertoBenjamin Rivera, basta b ~ o , en Playa Flamenco". Fase I de ill, 04-FC-21-002,reprograrnarA para crear el Slgwente proyccto: Diselio y construccwn del Centro tk ComercioPlayas Sardinas, en el Municipio de Cuiebra, Fase 11de IlL7. Proyecto aprobado: Repavimentaci6n de la Carr. 251, comenzando en Ia Int. Carr. 250 basta laPlaya Flamenco. I de I Fase. 04-FC-2I-00l, Se reprogramarfl para cambiar la ubicaci6n delproyecto Repavimentaci6n de Ia Carr. 250, comenzando en el Frente Portuario y terminandoen las faclhdades del Departamento de Recursos Naturales. I de I Fase.

EI municipio tendra disponible para comentarios e inspeci6n de la ciudadania los documentosc o r r e s p o ~ e n ~ a la reprogramaci6n de los proyectos enumerados anterionnente. Dichos documentosestaran dispombles en la Oficina de Programas Federales por un periodo de 10 dias laborables a partirde Ia feeha de este aviso. .Circulado hoy 27 de septiembre de 2005, en Culebra, Puerto Rico.

Hon. Abraham Peiia Nieves Alcalde


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,CERTIFICACION

Par este media se certifica que el Municipio de Culebra ubicalos lugares de interes publico el Aviso que acompaiia estacertificacion. EI mismo fue expuesto al publico en lossiguientes lugares en la jurisdiccion territorial de Culebra.

1. Casa Alcaldfa2. Obras Publicas Municipal3. Polida Municipal4. Correa Federal-Oficina Local5. Terminal de Lanchas-Autoridad de los Puertos6. Aeropuerto Local-Autoridad de los Puertos

Firmada hoy, 14 de octubre de 2005 en Culebra, Puerto Rico.


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From: nadeen decicco ([email protected])

To: [email protected];

Date: Tue, July 20, 2010 5:36:56 PM

Cc:

Subject: re: signature

I got the document out of the files which you sent.....

1. This was not a public hearing...it was a posted notice, and they list where theyposted the notices....2. My signature was on that list as having read the proposals.3. The proposals are listed right above our signatures and there is NO mention of astrip mall.4. The main things they mention doing I am FOR...bike path, biblioteca, parking lot,walking paths, repairing roads, etcSo, I don't know what you are putting into the same "pot" but I would never be FOR astrip mall but I certainly think they would be spending the money wisely if they

actually DID do some of those proposals, like I mention above.

No more on that ok?

nadeen

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