A public survey suggests that the social impacts of the project are likely to be mostly positive in nature, to varying degrees depending on the sector i.e. tourists, restaurant owners, hotel owners and local residents.

 

Over 60 meetings were held with individual property owners and with environmental experts between January and June 2004, inlcuding a general stakeholders meeting in April 2004. The purpose of these meetings was to obtain stakeholder input and to discuss and resolve any issues that stakeholders might have had. Also, multiple meetings were held with some landowners either to reach consensus on acceptable design modifications and/ or to obtain agreement on any encroachments shoreward of the HWM.

 

Immediately prior to construction, two stakeholders meetings were held to apprise stakeholders of what could be expected during the construction phase. The time-frame for construction and the nature of disruptions which were likely to occur were discussed at length at these meetings.