Joni Mitchell wrote some prophetic lyrics some years ago concerning a taxi.
We have already ‘paved paradise and put up a parking lot’, but what we don’t need is ‘a pink hotel, a boutique and a swinging hot spot’ in Station Street, Mullumbimby.
The carpark should stay as-is and another site found for the accommodation building. The hospital site perhaps.
The other decision to be made is the one concerning ‘The Nest’, at 115-119 Stuart Street. This proposal will change the whole dynamic of our much-valued Heritage Conservation Area of Mullumbimby. It is too big, too cramped, and one wonders who it is actually being built for. It is a backpackers design, or student accommodation type of building?
It just does not fit aesthetically in that part of town. Although there is parking on site, there will not be enough for the people who live there. I would not like to see the old, small, white house on the corner of Stuart Street and Whian Street demolished. It is a valuable piece of built history of this town. The Brunswick Valley Historical Society will be lodging an objection to this proposal.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
