Uri Greens stand by popular initiative “Isleten for all”
Published: Tuesday, Mar 26th 2024, 11:40
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The Green Party of Uri has spoken out against the redimensioned marina project by investor Samih Sawiris in Isleten UR. According to the party, this differs only slightly from the project idea from 2022.
A marina inland, a hotel, apartments and villas still stand in the center, which remain empty for most of the year and are mainly used as investments for wealthy people from Switzerland and abroad, as the Green Party of Uri wrote in a press release on Tuesday.
According to the Greens, Lake Lucerne is a landscape conservation area of national importance. Consequently, Isleten also belongs to it. They accuse the cantonal government of "keeping secret" the detailed inventory of industrial history that it has commissioned. Corresponding protection regulations are also long overdue.
The party also criticizes the lack of information on the costs of any relocation of the cantonal road and the possible associated rock stabilization measures and the development of the delta with water and sewage pipes.
The Green Party of Uri is sticking to its pending popular initiative "Isleten for all", which it says would allow the existing buildings to be put to sensible use. For example, into a youth hostel, a hotel or a restaurant. The campsite and the existing, protected orchard could also be preserved.
The government will decide on the validity of the initiative in August 2024. A vote could probably take place in November.
Sawiris presented a redimensioned marina project on Monday. In order to meet with greater approval from the population, he has reduced the planned project perimeter by 30 percent. Among other things, the boat harbor, the heart of the project, has been reduced by half its size.
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