Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell – Wow! This is a very groovy song for all generations! Sadly, it is still as relevant today as it was when written 40 years ago!
Come on Brisbane City Council - Get Groovy!
A workforce construction car park for the Northern Link Road Tunnel Project does not belong in Anzac Park, Toowong!
They took all the trees
Put 'em in a tree museum
And they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see 'em
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
See the Joni Mitchell, ‘Big Yellow Taxi’ original from 1970 - You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWwUJH70ubM
And the recent cover done just last year in 2002 by the Counting Crows - You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvtJPs8IDgU
Anzac Park is significant – It was listed on the Brisbane City Council’s very own City Plan Heritage Register in January 2004 – it fitted more than just one of the criterion under the Heritage Register Planning Scheme Policy of the Brisbane City Plan 2000:
• as a place of informal recreation since the early 20th century, it has a strong or special association with the life or work of a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons; and
• as a 19th century cemetery reserve, then early 20th century rifle range and after the Great War a memorial park, it is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of the City’s or local area’s history; and
• an extensive area of undulating parkland including open eucalypt forest, distinctive plantings of pines, palms and ornamentals with a scatter of picnic areas and landscape features, it is important because of its aesthetic significance; and
• as a place for remembering the fallen from the district in the Great War, it has a strong or special association with the life or work of a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons.
BCC - Get Groovy and Respectful!
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