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All of this raises questions about the logic of the Government’s apparent relentless pursuit of its most ambitious spatial development project, the notorious Bernard Lodge city, even as it crafts a national spatial strategy. On the face of it, Prime Minister Holness and his Government have gone far ahead of themselves.
There are other facts that compound the *obvious illogic of placement of cart and horse in this *matter. The Bernard Lodge city, which is to accommodate more than 17,000 homes, commercial and *industrial buildings, as well as recreational facilities, will *requiring culling nearly 7,000 acres from the 29,000-acre Bernard Lodge Estate, of which smaller portions have previously been sequestrated for housing. Government’s National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) describes the lands to be used for the city as being “in texture, from sand and loam to clay loam and are, in general, the most fertile soils in the island and regarded as Class 1 soils”.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/c...-bernard-lodge
All of this raises questions about the logic of the Government’s apparent relentless pursuit of its most ambitious spatial development project, the notorious Bernard Lodge city, even as it crafts a national spatial strategy. On the face of it, Prime Minister Holness and his Government have gone far ahead of themselves.
There are other facts that compound the *obvious illogic of placement of cart and horse in this *matter. The Bernard Lodge city, which is to accommodate more than 17,000 homes, commercial and *industrial buildings, as well as recreational facilities, will *requiring culling nearly 7,000 acres from the 29,000-acre Bernard Lodge Estate, of which smaller portions have previously been sequestrated for housing. Government’s National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) describes the lands to be used for the city as being “in texture, from sand and loam to clay loam and are, in general, the most fertile soils in the island and regarded as Class 1 soils”.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/c...-bernard-lodge
Paul Marin -19 is one thing, 20 is a whole other matter. It gets even worse if they win the UCL. *groan*. 
05/18/2011.MU fans naah cough, but all a unuh a vomit?-Lazie 1/11/2015