Letters to Redlands2030 discuss ethical decisions, climate change and the risk of koala habitat loss due to planning scheme changes adopted by the current Redland City Council.
Your thoughts on any of these matters and anything else is welcome on this page. Send your letter with your views and opinions to theeditor@redlands2030.net
Koala habitat and the Redland City Plan
ES
Redlands
Ethical decisions and processes in the Council??
Willards Farm
The whole scenario involving Willard’s Farm and the Mayoral minute smells. It does not pass the pub test.
Why is this sort of last-minute “gotcha” type of decision making even considered acceptable?
This sort of thing is going on in council in ways that are needlessly provocative and it seems a long way from making ethical decisions.
Some Councillors seemed to be gloating at how some of their colleagues had missed the before meeting briefing. The gloating was a show of point-scoring but revealed that some Councillors had scant regard for the public interest. And in the overall scheme of things what was the rush?
I am also concerned at a recent application that will devalue housing in Wellington Point. There are plans for a 10 medium or even high-density units on a normal (800m2 house block). This would never have happened under the old City Plan.
Apparently, there is now a proposal for 12 units on a single 800m2 block at Alexander Hills. Surely most councillors can see exactly what is going on and they should acknowledge the failings of their City Plan. No one else to blame here … except for the councillors who voted for the new City Plan.
An apology to the community would be nice but ratepayers should not hold your breath.
SC
Thornlands
Steggall’s climate change petition
Zali Steggall MP
Zali Steggall, the independent Federal MP for Warringah, will on 23rd March 2020 introduce in Federal Parliament a private members bill relating to climate change. It is called the Climate Change (National Framework for Adaptation and Mitigation)Bill 2020.
You can find the details here along with links to related and relevant supporting information.
My thinking is that Redlands2030 followers and supporters may be interested in signing this petition supporting the proposed Climate Change Act as the more signatures that are obtained the better.
Regards
DS
Capalaba
More letters
Here are more letters that have been published by Redlands2030:
Toondah Harbour and right to information
Council elections and wildlife care in letters
Claire4mayor, safety and plastic roads in letters
Redlands2030 – 24 February 2020
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I hope we don’t need to read again in the Courier Mail after the March 2020 council election, comments by Prof Paul Williams, of Griffith University, who writes on political issues, that Redlands was the dirtiest and grubbiest campaign he has ever seen…..due to sign stealing. Already I have heard from some candidates that their signs have been stolen so it appears this will be another grubby campaign. There have been some highly inappropriate decisions and proposals within Redland City Council in the last three years, the Toondah and Shoreline Proposals being just two of them. In my opinion many residents have been kept in the dark on both of these proposals. They do not realise the Toondah Proposal involves irreversible environmental damage and Shoreline Proposal, now on-sold to Lendlease, involves primary treated sewage being released into Serpentine Creek. This should definitely not be allowed. We need a council we can trust to make the right decisions for all, including our unique wildlife that cannot speak for itself.
So many areas with a koala habitat overlay are being cleared. Brisbane City Council does not prosecute people for clearing land under the ‘koala habitat’ overlay. We need higher fines to be given to people who do this and BCC should not give people approval for development application for land under this overlay. Brisbane City Council sits back while land with koala habitat overlays are being stripped of vegetation and use of land not appropriate for this overlay. Do we want our wildlife to survive the invasion of human beings into their habitats? We need to protect our wildlife and impose high fines for the destruction of koala habitat and also to come up with better housing solutions and stop greedy developers from destroying our natural environment.
Re Steggall’s climate change petition. Man-made CO2 is highly likely having an insignificant impact on climate. The echo chamber of a small percentage of academia that believes the opposite will have to deny (impossible) or otherwise explain away the evidence presented in my revised paper on the subject. Read it for free at https://www.scribd.com/document/383385011/.