Commune of Port-Salut: Planning Options

This is a commune-level planning document for Port-Salut, on the southern coast. Its structure is four parts: context, a review of past work touching on planning, new orientations and measures, and a conclusion. The context section leads with a striking frequency claim, that the country has experienced as many cyclones in the last sixteen years as in the fifty before them, which sets the whole exercise as risk anticipation rather than growth management. Port-Salut is a coastal commune whose beach was the subject of a separate UNEP restoration feasibility study, so the planning question is unusually concrete: how a small coastal commune should organize settlement, services and its shoreline when the return period of destructive storms has shortened. Presented at the Grand Sud regional table five months after Hurricane Matthew crossed the peninsula.