They told politicians pushing for the development to keep their hands off one of the Island’s few unspoilt urban areas, saying that they would not spoil St Aubin as they had St Helier.
Of the 140 people who packed into St Brelade’s Parish Hall, around a dozen, many of them village traders, voted in favour of reclaiming land.
Everyone else voted against the idea and spoke, one after another, in opposition to the multi-million-pound plan at the meeting, which was organised by Senator Ben Shenton.
Deputy Sarah Ferguson spoke first, outlining the details of her States proposition for a £200,000 feasibility study into a reclamation scheme which could create an estimated 231 more parking spaces.
That proposal was overwhelmingly carried in the States earlier this month.
She said that she had taken it to the States to make sure that her electors had their say in the matter.
Without the proposition, she said, parishioners would not have been consulted, adding that the Economic Development Minister had already, independently, laid out the terms of reference for a feasibility study.
