Chairperson, I hereby give notice that on the next sitting day of the Council I shall move:
That the Council -
1) notes with utmost dismay the DA's disregard, evidenced particularly through the conduct of the Western Cape Transport MEC Robin Carlisle, who has shown utmost disrespect for the people of Hout Bay and the general public views of the people of the Western Cape, and plans to halt any plans to build the controversial toll plaza and double-storey office on one of Cape Town's treasured landmarks, the historical Chapman's Peak, which forms part of Table Mountain, that was recently voted one of the New Seven Wonders of Nature;
2) further notes that the building of the toll plaza continued despite written assurance to the Hout Bay Residents' Association by the premier of the Western Cape, Premier Helen Zille, that the public would be given 30 days' notice before construction began and an indication that the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO, will investigate the building of the toll plaza on historical land;
3) further notes that the toll plaza has drawn some of the greatest public opposition to a development the city has had, with a mass protest of 2 300 Capetonians marching on Chapman's Peak Drive to show their opposition to the building of the toll plaza and double- storey office on Table Mountain National Park land; and
4) condemns in the harshest possible terms this disregard of the democratic views of the people of the Western Cape, particularly the conduct of Premier Helen Zille and MEC Carlisle and the utmost disrespect they showed to the people of Hout Bay and Cape Town.