Community rallies against Toondah plan

Re Rally at GJ Walker Park to petition against Redland City Council building 3,600 apartments on reclaimed land at Toondah Harbour, Cleveland.
It doesn’t matter, in my view, how many signatures are on a petition, they will all find their way into the bin as experienced in Capalaba in past years when then Mayor paid no attention to the over 300 signatures I had collected on a petition to prevent selling to commercial developer Peter Endacott the specially protected wetland site under Koala Coast Policy at 29-37 Moreton Bay Rd Capalaba, that led to a Council officer transferring out of Council who was angry that no one listened to him, who knew value of the site.
Loyal AWU Labor Cr for Capalaba lied, telling me the site would be purchased with our environmental levy, who was normally absent from Council when the issue was raised. At meeting prior to final one, our Capalaba representative was led in like a dog to pin point on a map over a decade old, that greenspace was left to local residents and agreed to the destruction of the site. Our Cr was absent at final meeting and I was prevented from entry as one councillor had his foot on seat in front of the door so when finally the door opened, (changed from 3rd on Agenda to 1st) the Cr for Wellington Pt looked up at me and said “it’s all over Amy”….only 3, if I recall correctly, were on hand at the time, so you see folks, no matter how many signatures you have, like my late husband Paul said many times “they will do what they want to do anyhow”. I wept tears of anger and sadness as I drove home to the site and took photo of a young koala reaching over to the neighbouring tree to chew on new leaf. This destruction of a beautiful small oasis was a loss felt by many in the area between Coolnwynpin Ck Crotona Rd & Finucane Rd supported by AWU Labor State government members in Capalaba, that today is off limits to locals from units at 19 Crotona Rd through to bridge at Old Cleveland Rd Capalaba.
Div 7 Cr Gleeson put icing on the cake so to speak by… on request by Central Mgt to fix metal fence built when Leda bulldozed tonnes of earth into waterway in order to build a tavern and bottle shop on man made bank… erecting a tall, timber non-see through fence, driving locals away, who, like my neighbour who loved running his 2 dogs along the Crotona Rd walkway through to Old Cleveland Rd able to view what was left of a green view, now having to run his pet dogs elsewhere. Tall concrete graffiti filled towering walls adorn the once lovely creek bank that paved the way for Mr Endacott to build an apartment bldg. in Cleveland with water views. We, in turn, lost our quality of life because environment, koala corridors, well being of local residents, didn’t matter when politicians local & State, made deals behind closed doors with wealthy developer where all those involved got a piece of the action….and no petition no matter how destructive to the community, will change that. As a Birkdale Cr, who stopped me in mid-sentence, on hearing the word ‘tree’ said: “It’s a done deal, Amy”. From that day on, I gave up trying to speak up for our now extinct local creek corridor koalas, in Redland City Council.
It is my understanding five councillors were kept in the dark for many years as Mayor and associates made deals with Walker Corp heads on how the Toondah Harbour surrounds should be developed. It is to be supposed, since Lang Walker boasted of being able to buy politicians, that those involved in the deals, have been well compensated…thereby rendering petitions of objection to this gross over-development, useless…the way I see it.