Our friends on the other side of the overpass have been going since 20th of September, when they discovered the Application for Project Change (the same doc that contains the shocking details of the Anzac Park plans) would contain plans to completely and permanently destroy their only neighbourhood park (Ada Park – opposite the Mt Coot-tha Gardens entrance). The Toll Control Centre in the plans is 100m long, 20m wide and 10m high – effectively a 30 storey building lying on its side (think of the Marriott Hotel in Bris city). It’s almost the length of an average Bunnings – and will be surrounded in barbed wire. It will be on zoned parkland, less than 20m from homes and will operate 24/7 permanently – with incident and emergency response being dispatched all hours of the day and night. Given the siting is also 8km in the wrong direction for access to the tunnel, there seems no valid reason to remove parkland at the foothills of Mt Coot-tha for this industrial building. Their biggest concern is that if Council can take parkland in such an iconic part of our city, then no park is safe in Brisbane.
Since the winning tender was announced they have had a rally, a stall at the Milton Fair, a huge media blitz, a paper petition and e-petition. They’ve been blogging and printing posters and painting banners and generally making a nuisance of themselves to all the people in charge of the planned destruction of their park. They will be helping us with our own objections to the loss of Anzac Park for car parking. We will boost each other’s numbers in our shared commitment to the same issue of green space in Toowong by combining forces on our submission to the Coordinator General.
Sign their e-petition and forward to your friends:
A few seconds of your time to sign this petition could make a lifetime of a difference. Please sign by no later 15 November. Anyone can sign this petition as long as they live in Queensland (and they can be of any age). Just go to this link and follow the prompts:
http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/view/EPetitions_QLD/CurrentEPetition.aspx?PetNum=1552&lIndex=-1
In return, the Mt Coot-tha Residents' Group will ask their membership to sign our e-petition. There is strength in numbers, so please do give these guys a hand. Karma works.
Are you on Facebook? Then ‘like’ their facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/MtCoottha
Read their very lively blog:
http://mtcoottha.posterous.com/
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