DEAR News Of The Area,
THE ethical virtue of the words accompanying the deliberately long-winded ‘Coffs Harbour Jetty Foreshore revitalisation planning proposal public exhibition’ have caused me to recoil in disgust, because they only partly tell the whole truth about this proposal.
Statements from this document are only partly right, lack virtue, honesty and nobility and should be found to be incomplete and therefore improper by thoughtful readers.
The planning proposal seeks to amend “land uses”, “building heights” and “design processes” (no problem)… and says it does “not provide approval for development to commence” (incomplete and so inaccurate).
True, it does not provide approval to commence development, but it does allow developers to legally seek approvals for developments which they cannot make right now.
The hypothetical gate will be unashamedly left wide open by the proponents of this proposal and they don’t consider that they need to warn us.
These are the developments that the majority (almost 70 percent) of Coffs Harbour ratepayers voted against in a recent election.
So much for our democratically elected state and local governments taking a truly consultative approach.
Surely the same amount of taxpayers money should have been spent on developing a proposal that would explain and develop the no development case.
Regards to my fellow readers,
Colin MCENTYRE,
Coffs Harbour.
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