HOTEL owners along the Wild Coast were this week exhorted to join forums for the Wild Coast Spatial Development Initiative to help speed up infrastructure delivery and highlight impediments in the way of progress. Gernot Ott, programme manager for the Support to the Wild Coast SDI programme and East Cape Development Corporation investment manager Martin Kuchler asked members of the Wild Coast Holiday Association to get involved in the programme management committee. The committee groups government departments and agencies with the people involved in the R80m EU project to get the SDI up and running. The project intends to find around 300 sustainable community-based businesses which will be set up and mentored for the four years of the project’s funding “and when we leave we do not expect the businesses to disappear but rather for them to prosper”, Ott said.