Decision Time
The Gold Coast City Council are about to make a decision on the Sunland development on The Spit and we need your help to tell them this proposal is simply not in the public interest…
* To build Sunland’s two apartment towers (comprising, one tower being 47 storeys high and the other tower being 39 storeys high) in a 3-storey height zone
* To extend the Mariners Cove Marina 70 metres out into the Broadwater
* To block Seaworld Drive with traffic
* To build apartments out over the Broadwater
* Will block and disturb wind patterns coming across the Broadwater and ruination of a traditional, rare resourse, safe, flatwater sailing area
* Start a precedence and open the door for the whole Main Beach Spit Area to be developed out with many Major Multi Storey Developments
* Mindless distruction of historic sensible and sound good urban plan practice of retaining open urban recreational/green space areas forever destroyed for now and future generations, whereby there are many current zones and available developable land throughout the Gold Coast City to cater for these types of developments
Two Public Rallies will be held and we need your assistance of attendance
1. GCCC Planning Committee MeetingTuesday 13 September 8:30am to 9:30am
2. GCCC Council MeetingThursday 15 September 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Where?
Council Chambers, Evandale, Bundall…next to Arts Centre.
If you don’t agree to high-rises on The Spit please come along and let Council know how you feel…your presence will make a difference.
How can they do that, when they won't let us have a boutique Casino on great kepple island. I'm upset!
Select to expand quotekemp90 said..
How can they do that, when they won't let us have a boutique Casino on great kepple island. I'm upset!
Yeh Kemp Old Mate! I wish you can have our one that is trying to be pushed through now for The Gold Coast Main Beach Spit. That will contribute more to blocking wind across to our beloved Kfc's Kiting Spot at Labrador and render that complete area for Kiting and Windsurfing pretty well useless forever, the only times anyone will be able to sail there in the future will be on North to North East Winds that constitute approximately only 10 to 20% of the suitable wind days of the year (so we are talking about 15 to 25 days of the year when you take into account no wind days and unsuitable wind direction days like Westerlies). One Palace of Misery here of ridiculously totally stacked odds and a form of legal theft, is enough for the Gold Coast, we do not need another.
Select to expand quoteHaircut said.. I missed the first maybe 15-30 mins tonight. Did the dredging of the southport side channel get discussed?
Just to fill a few of you in, (if you really care at all???) as I attended the Gold Coast Waterways Authority Forum tonight and one of the Windsurfer Wind Warrior Brothers were there and put this question to me, here is my reply to him as follows:-
Hi Haircut, yes it was good to see a few of you guys there tonight for support. (By the way, there did not appear to be any Kite Surfers there other than myself 
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No I believe nothing was brought up about the dredging on the Southport Side Channel and as far as I know the Queensland Minister for Transport stated a couple of months ago after the findings of the Survey about the proposed Second Main Channel that there was not sufficient interest in the affirmative for it from the public and partly because a lot of our troops rallied to the cause and submitted to the Survey for the negative, which helped the outcome. Whether it is back on GCWA Agenda, I am not aware of it, unless some one else knows?
There was mention however of tonight's audience enquiring about if any dredging works are to be done or occur in regard to a Sailing Basin. The Board Members sort of danced around their answers a bit on this. They did say however this is in some one else's hands. Now it probably does not take to much of a guess to understand who the uncaring, reckless, short sighted, thoughtless, exploit at all cost and person who calls the shots around here is, that they may be referring to. To my knowledge Tom Tate in cahoots with some other Business People, wants to push for a leg series of the next America's Cup Challenge to be held here on the Gold Coast seeing there is no Fast Cat Races this year as it had been cancelled for some ungiven reasons. Not that there is any specifics on where or how big this Sailing Basin is to be but it is assumed to be held in the Broadwater in Front of the Main Beach Spit Finger and South of Wave Break Island and in Mayor Tom Tate's words when interviewed about it on 9 Gold Coast News a few weeks ago he said something to the effect, if my memory serves me right? "Oh Yeh, we want to try a secure a leg of the America's Cup here (as he was standing at the Spit Finger facing Wave Break Island), It will be great for the Gold Coast and we will just dredge the whole place to cater for it, so no worries there".
The only thing Mayor Tom Tate does not realise yet, that all the Highrise Developments (contrary to the long standing 3 Storey Height Restriction Zone) he is in favour of and promoting for the Main Beach Spit is going to be detrimental to any sailing out on the Western Side of the Spit and South of Wave Break Island due to the effects of severe blocking and disturbing of the predominant available direction winds. I don't think he has given it to much thought. But there again I don't think he gives anything to much thought as his style is just to Steam Roller anything and everything through and suffer or deal with any consequences after.
