‘Great, EMA, but we don’t want the erotic center at the NDSM either’
It is great that the EMA immediately indicates that they do not want an erotic center at their head office in connection with the safety of the employees. Well, then the NDSM wharf remains, you can wait for it. Why not in rural North, for example the part where mayor Halsema has her own home. See if she likes having an erotic center in her backyard.
We also do not want an erotic center on the NDSM site. That is not 500 meters from the houses but much, much closer. But hey, we can suffer from alcohol, drugs and misconduct. It’s just the NDSM, they have nothing to say.
Nel van Rootzelaar, Amsterdam
‘The perfect location already exists: the Magna Plaza’
I propose to convert the Magna Plaza into a new erotic center. It has been almost empty for years, is centrally located, visitors can park anonymously (!), it is transparent (safe) and it costs considerably less CO2 than a new center to be built.
Jeanine Kool, Amsterdam
‘Hold a phased referendum’
The mood is very heated regarding the plans for an erotic center. Everything is aimed at the city council, which of course will not come out of this, so everything stays with the old and allows the current (unsustainable) situation to exist. But why not let democracy really do its job in the form of a phased referendum?
The five referendum options:
1) the Green Zoom;
2) de Europaboulevard;
3) the Docklandsplot on the NDSM;
4) maintain the current situation in postcode area 1012;
5) closing all sex facilities in 1012.
After the first round, one of the five options is dropped, leaving four for a second round. In this way, an option is eliminated each round, leaving the option with the fewest objections. Each round is held simultaneously with an election for the House of Representatives, the Provincial Council and the municipal council, so that there is ample time for everyone to delve into the options.
Rolf Steenwinkel, Amsterdam
‘Unsafe situation for EMA employees’
Ms. Halsema can emphasize that there is a distance between the planned erotic center and the EMA building, but she forgets that the 50,000 delegates who come every year from the European Union by plane or train for meetings to the EMA, all pass through Station Amsterdam RAI travel. From here you have to walk to the EMA building, a distance of 500 meters, past the planned erotic center. The meetings often last into the late evening and the delegates then have to walk back to Station RAI in the evening, an undesirable situation if that erotic center is on their way. Many of the EMA’s 900 permanent employees also travel by public transport via RAI station, they often work until late at night.
Jan Taminiau, Amsterdam (EMA member)
