Yum Balisi Sustainable Luxury Resort - Department of Environment

Mitigation
i. Provide proper insurance coverage for all identified risks.
ii. Establish an emergency response team.
iii. Appoint a senior staff member as the emergency response coordinator.
iv. Develop a comprehensive emergency response plan supported by
individualized emergency response plan fro the six identified risks or
threats.
v. Ensure structures are designed to withstand at least a category 3 hurricane.
vi. Ensure design of structures take into consideration the potential for
seismic movements and sea level rise due to climate change impact.
vii. Ensure that all structures confirm with local and international fire codes
for similar type structures.
viii. Provide and maintain emergency response equipment: first aid kits, smoke
detectors, fire alarms, fire extinguishers, fire cart, absorbent pads and
booms and radios.
ix. Provide training to staff in first aid and emergency response, first aid and
CPR.
x. Maintain and update a list of emergency related numbers.
xi. Require management and staff to carry out the various emergency
response drills associated with the various identified risks or threats.
Evaluation of Alternatives
Based on the evaluation of the various issues associated with the alternatives examined, the
option with the highest economic opportunity, the most technically feasible and with the least
negative environmental impacts is the revised conceptual development plan now being
proposed. This plan unlike the initial conceptual plan has the benefit of being designed on the
basis of the baseline information obtained from the EIA.
Although the selection of the "No Action Alternative” would have led to little or no negative
impacts to the environment, it would in itself have led to a lost of opportunity to develop the
true economic recreational and touristic potential of the island and its resources. In addition,
this option would have no regards to the value of the property and its land use potential and
the fact that it is private property sold under the premises of being a prime property for
tourism development.
The “No Action Alternative”, would have probably led to the sterilization of the area by
maintaining it in its natural form at a tremendous opportunity loss. Similarly, the economic
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