Well, they’ve signed another SDO, this time to build a six-story tower holding 66 condominiums at the CoCo Reef/Stonington property.
It’s a sign that our planning process is irretrievably broken when every major project sidesteps the planning process using a Ministerial special development order. This is at least the sixth SDO issued over the last year or so.
The suddenness of this SDO is surprising as only a few weeks ago the local media reported that the Bermuda College - the landlord of hotel - had filed objections to the development.
CoCo Reef owner John Jefferis shows his adeptness at Ewartspeak by gushing that the real estate development, which will bulldoze existing Bermuda coastal woodland, aims to build a “lush tropical woodland in which various species of plants and animals can flourish.”
Yeah, sure. Various species like the Migratory Opportunist and the North American Fat-bellied Sapsucker.
