Environmentalists have called for the public to voice last-minute concerns over Park Hyatt’s “starkly un-Bermudian” development plans for St George’s.The Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskforce (BEST) said it supported the idea of a hotel at the East End, but was concerned by the threat to protected areas.BEST chairman Stuart Hayward called for the public to speak out, as today is the deadline for objections to the resort to be lodged with the Department of Planning.“We would want to see that the scale and massing of the development resembled St George’s in character and was not so starkly un-Bermudian,” Mr Hayward said.“We are concerned that the current design appears to pack as many buildings as possible into the space available, and arranges them in a cookie-cutter pattern totally out of character with St George’s.”Developer Carl Bazarian hopes to build the resort on the hilltop site of the former Club Med.The application now before Planning describes the development as a community “reminiscent of the Town of St George’s”.However, Mr Hayward said: “We are concerned that this facility, covering 128 acres, needs to eat up the few small areas of land zoned woodland reserve, open space reserve or agricultural reserve.”The lack of open space within the development would cause it to look like “a high-density condo development”, he added.Mr Hayward noted that the 122 residential units outnumber the 100 hotel rooms planned for the East End development.“We question whether this is a hotel or primarily a residential development on tourism-zoned land,” he said.St George’s resident David Hillier also spoke, on behalf of the Old Military Road Task Force a group of about 300 people living in the area of the resort entrance.Mr Hillier objected to the proposal for a utility site to be built on a one-acre plot of woodland close to their homes.“We are saying this is too much industrial activity for one area to sustain,” said Mr Hillier.A power plant, generators, fuel tanks, sewage plant and reverse osmosis plant are among the utilities in current plans for the site.Mr Hillier said residents’ “greatest fear” was that the complex would be built and the Park Hyatt unable to sell its residences, leaving “a huge industrial site on our front door”.He said the sewage system may also be used to process waste from the Corporation of St George and St George’s Club, as well as the Sylvia Richardson Care Facility.“We are saying that there is too much industrial activity for this residential area to sustain. We feel that this once quiet area of St George’s will be lost forever.”BEST has called for the public to visit its website today, where a template letter to Planning and a list of concerns are available.Useful website: www.best.org.bm.