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Wed, 26 May 1999 14:20:22 -0700
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Dear friend,
In March I sent you an enthusiastic note about my settling down in the
Island of Santa Catarina, in the south of Brazil.
Now, "Progress by Bulldozer" is coming our way the way Science for the
People wrote about it in the 70's (remember the "superports" and the
Transamazonic Highway?).
The Island has some 300.000 inhabitants today, most in the capital city of
Florianopolis, and is sung by the media and the tourist agencies as an
ecological paradise, a place for "quality of life". No place, that is no
beach (they say there are 42 of them in the island) is further than 30
miles from the capital's downtown.

But the technocrats of the municipality worked out a "Plan for development"
of the Southern part of the Island (Where I live with 15.000 others
dispersed on some 50 square miles) into a "New City" of 450.000, with
superhighways criscrossing the region, each 120 feet wide......   There
would be a "Via Parque", 10 miles long, over dunes and lagoons, along the
sea, one mile below my house, 150 feet wide! Another is just above my
house, at the foot of the hill/mountain and will pass over the houses and
barn of the family from which I get my milk.  To teach us speeding we'll
have an "International Racetrack" and a Golf Course to replace a swamp
today filled with lotus flowers (I am not joking!).
The econmomic interests are road builders  (remember the "Transamazonic
Highway?). The governor of the state is the husband of the mayor of the
capital; they own a bus company and have started building closed
condominiums around here......

This "Plan" will become law voted by the municipal assembly this coming month.
We want to stop that.
So, as a price for my open invitation to come visit us in our paradise,
while it lasts, please sent a quick FAX (or a true letter) to

Presidente da Câmara Municipal de Florianópolis
Câmara Municipal de Florianópolis
Praça XV de Novembro, 214
CEP - 88010 - 400 Florianópolis - SC,   Brazil

FAX  number :  55 48  222 5599

By regulation the president of the chamber MUST read all letters (so title your
fax:  "Carta ao Presidente da Câmara") from the podium of the Assembly.
You may write about:
urging to refuse the "Plano Diretor do Campeche e Planicie Entremares"
urging to not destroy what makes Florianopolis famous in the whole world.....
Your joining our battle in this modest quick way may be quite useful:
through a letter writing campaign, my friends won the rejection of a
measure, 3 years ago, which would have allowed 18 story buildings in the
city.

Science and the Island of Santa Catarina for the People!
THANKS,    maurice

PS: I attach a text in Portuguese which may help......
     You may send this message to other interested friends if you wish.





Subject: Campeche urgente 26 de maio 1999 A VIDA VAI FICAR INSUPORTÁVEL A Câmara de Vereadores está se preparando para votar o Plano de Desenvolvimento da Planície Entremares ou Plano de Desenvolvimento do Campeche (que abrange Campeche, Rio Tavares, Porto da Lagoa, Aeroporto, Tapera, Alto Ribeirão, Costeira, Morro das Pedras, Carianos ... ). Este Plano, que se tornou conhecido em 1992, foi dividido em 10 partes e reapresentado à comunidade em 1997. Já nesta época, foi realizado o I Seminário Comunitário de Planejamento do Campeche, que reuniu 250 moradores, e definiu as seguintes prioridades para o planejamento, da região: Implantação de Infra-estrutura básica de saneamento; Preservação do manancial subterrâneo da Planície do Campeche; Rede de drenagem pluvial; Prioridade aos pedestres nas ruas e avenidas; Escola técnica profissional de 2o grau (considerando as vocações da região); Preservação de áreas verdes de lazer; Acesso público as praias e apoio as vocaçoes e potenciais da regiao. Estas propostas estao detalhadas no Dossie Campeche. No entanto, o IPUF (Instituto de Planejamento Urbano de Floripa) desconsiderou as prioridades definidas pelos moradores, e reapresentou o Plano, com algumas alteraçoes, à Câmara de Vereadores, no último dia 15 de março. Este Plano, se implementado, como desenhado, causará danos irreversíveis ao lençol freático do Campeche, despedaçará a regiao com vias expressas, de 40 a 50 metros de largura, verdadeiras pistas de corrida, sobre os atuais bairros e banhados. Enfim, comprometerá de forma irremediável, a qualidade de vida de todos os moradores da regiao, atuais e futuros. Sr. Presidente Discordo da transformaçao do Sul da Ilha de Santa Catarina numa cidade dominada por pistas de corrida. As propostas e preocupaçoes do Dossie Campeche devem ser respeitadas.
Maurice Bazin RUA PAU DE CANELA 1101 CAMPECHE, Florianópolis 88048-330 S. C. BRAZIL TELEPHONE [and FAX after oral warning (depois de avisar)]:           55 (0)48 237 3140 e-mail: [log in to unmask]

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