Councillor Asren Pugh has publicly derided members of the Mullumbimby Residents Association (MRA) for being NIMBY in their efforts to have Byron Council’s affordable housing project moved from the town carpark to Council’s carpark.
He has also blatantly misrepresented MRA as trying to stop this housing project – in fact MRA is trying to get MORE housing by moving the location, because the Council carpark is twice the size of the town carpark.
Councillors all talk about the dire need for more affordable housing, but they don’t want it on their own carpark, even though it would provide at least twice the number of housing units.
Why don’t they want it there? Because they have solar panels (and why can’t they go on the roof?) And because the library may need to expand sometime in the future, according to the mayor. Strange coming from the Greens…
So you have to ask, who are the real NIMBYs here?
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