MAYOR OF PORTMORE, Councillor George Lee has indicated that the Municipal Council wants to work with the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) on development plans for the municipality.
The Mayor said he was desirous of meeting with NEPA , as failure to do so would delay the Council's agenda for developing the municipality which would hamper the growth of the municipality.
He was speaking against the background that NEPA at present has the sole authority to create and implement development plans and orders for all parishes and municipalities.
At present Mr. Lee said, Portmore, as a rapidly developing community had several problems it had to fix. He said the municipality was working towards creating a development plan which would help to achieve this goal.
Mayor Lee said although he appreciated the idea of one body being in charge of development, he was ambitious that both the municipality and NEPA could work together to maintain standards that would bring about development.
"In the case of Portmore," he continued, "we have hired a highly competent company to create our development plan as we are not going to do it ourselves and all they (NEPA) have to do is to make certain they supervise the process," he added.
-R.T.
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