I tried to fill in Landcom’s feedback form but was surprised at the number of pointless questions: ‘What are the benefits you see during the construction period?’, etc and so many repetitive questions that seem designed to put residents off submitting any feedback. It put me off.
A three-storey complex with car parking is massively over scale. This formula has been applied by every developer in the Byron Shire for many years: submit a development application (DA) that is ridiculously oversize then trim it back a little so it’s only terribly oversized and everyone feels happy without really looking closely at it.
I can imagine the huge queues of traffic after this development is built (with a second car park on the other side of the rail line) at the busiest intersection in Mullumbimby. And traffic funnelled via the IGA laneway? Crazy. Developers here have always stated: ‘It’s just not viable to reduce the DA size’. Well it’s just not a viable development then, is it?
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