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April 24, 2024

Mandy Nolan’s Soap Box #169 Developing Byron

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Given the plethora of new development proposals afflicting the Byron Shire, Mandy has taken up the flag with her own vision for the area.

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  1. You’re so right Mandy! Getting rid of cars is the only way! Have been to some clean, calm, unsmelly fab much larger cities that ban cars in the center – Napier, NZ, Munster, Germany! It’s not impossible, it’s just that our mafia-style state government has no interest in future planning for sustainability and human habitation.

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