The Action Plan
of types of busses), (ii) predesign study of the backbone rout (feasibility study, defining case and partners, cost-benefit study, investment/operational costs, juridical and constraints study) and (iii) detailed design study of the backbone route (including elaboration of business plan, investment and operation costs). • Housing and land use policy and implementation study. This study related to the suggestions of the UGS concerning housing/ densification, land use and zoning. It includes a cost-of-sprawl study applied to the concrete, actual situation of the peri-urban area of Paramaribo, that will serve as a basis to infer grants for densification and renewal of existing fabric and/or for supporting the development of alternative land use typologies in the suband peri-urban neighborhood. This study is directly connected to strategic actions, such as a Latour housing test case, an innercity testcase, and an integrated PPP testcase in Clevia aiming at development of a new typology for residential and/or urban farmstead. These strategic actions thus, in their turn, inform the housing and land use policy and implementation study, rendering it empirical ground, thus increasing the likeliness of success.
2.2 PROJECTS Suriname has been buried by excessive amounts of studies that have never reached the stage of (succesful) implementation. Therefore, it is crucial that the Action Plan results in concrete projects, highly visible, with strong societal and political support, satisfying clear and direct needs and interests. Such projects are worth to be facilitated by substantial investments/loans/grants. Based upon the conclusions and recommendations of the the action plan proposes the following projects: • Ferry Veerplein/Old Jetty – to be translated into a tender that includes on the one hand (solar)boats, infrastructure, operational trainings, inclusion of existing boatsmen and services, and other hand urban development of the Old Jetty/waterkant/Heiligenweg/ Knuffelsgracht and of the Veerplein (Commewijne) • Latour neighbourhood project: reorganisation of the Latourweg including water management (infiltration/retention/sewers/pump stations) is considered as an occasion to start an inclusive process of neighbourhood development, based upon urban living labs methodologies and neighbourhood contracts. Particular attention
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