02-08-2008 16:50

Cr Vivien Griffin showed why Noosa's planning scheme was such a success - their planners used studies to show what areas needed protection both for biodiversity and ecological services and what were the lifestyle aspirations of the existing residents. They then fit the number of additional people that could be accommodated within those parameters.  
 
Now that she is a Councillor for the whole Sunshine Coast however, she has to deal with planning schemes from other areas. The one comment that I disagreed with was that she has to go along with these other planning schemes because they have been developed together with those communities. That may have happened in Noosa, but it certainly didn't happen in other Sunshine Coast Councils. Just like in the Gold Coast and the Redlands, we all put in our submissions, but they were largely ignored in favour of development at any cost.