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REPA Newsletter March 2009

 RURAL ENVIRONMENT PLANNING ASSOCIATION Newsletter March 2009

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CONTENTS

Annual General Meeting

Draft South East Queensland Regional Plan 2009 - 2031

Proposed Upgrade of Gap Creek Road

Proposed Kenmore Bypass

Proposed enlargement of facilities at the Pet Chalet, Upper Brookfield

Moggill Country Club

Proposed development between Witty Road, Church Road and Matfield Street, Moggill

Membership

Opportunity to ‘have your say’ in Brisbane City Council Surveys on Mountain Biking and their Tree Policy

Proposed upgrade of Rafting Ground Road culvert near Wilunga Street

www.repa.org.au , www.westernbypass.org

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Community Forum: Opposing unwanted development - 24.04.10, 2:30pm

Still worried about the Kenmore bypass? Angry about plans to turn your local golf course into houses? Upset with how Gap Creek Road is being turned into a thoroughfare? Want to share ideas and strategies with other community groups?

Speakers include experienced environmental lawyer and lead Greens senate candidate Larissa Waters.

Attend this forum organized by West Brisbane Greens and hosted by UQ Greens to join others in finding out how best to tackle inappropriate development.

For more information download the flier or see the web notice: http://www.greenupmoggill.org/events/

Note: actual start time is 2:30pm (the software on this site rounded the time I set up down to a whole hour).

Time: 2:30pm

Date: Sat 24th Apr, 2010

Location: UQ St Lucia SSH Library conference room

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My website is: http://opinion-nation.blogspot.com/

Moggill 444/443 timetable

Moggill 444/443 timetable

Translink 19th May 2008

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REPA

REPA, the Rural Environment Planning Association Inc. is a community-based planning association which has been active in the Brookfield-Pullenvale- Moggill area, and adjoining rural suburbs, since 1973. The aim of REPA Inc. is to contribute positively to the planning process in ways which will preserve the rural amenity of the district which now comprises the major part of the Pullenvale Ward.  REPA operates for the long-term benefit of local residents and the balanced development of the City of Brisbane and also participates in local environmental community projects.

Please visit REPA's website at http://www.repa.org.au">www.repa.org.au to find out more about our contribution to the local community.

My website is: http://www.repa.org.au

Greens in Moggill

I'm Philip Machanick, and I'm your Greens candidate in the next state election.

I don't believe people choose to live in the outer suburbs because they like traffic, but because they like the semi-rural life and the small-town feel of this kind of neighbourhood. For this reason, I believe there are better solutions to traffic than building more roads. What are these solutions? Kenmore High School is bursting at the seams. Put a new high school in at Bellbowrie, and a good fraction of school-related traffic on Moggill Road will disappear. Put in a comprehensive school bus system that will not leave children stranded at the side of the road, and you get rid of most of the rest of the school-related traffic. Add in entertainment, as well as professional and public services close to home, and fewer people need to travel.

Then there's the Greens plan to put in a light rail system, and park and ride to connect to existing bus services, and you really can live in the outer suburbs without spending half your life in unpleasant traffic. This could be done for a fraction of the cost of the tunnels being put in around Brisbane, which will have the effect of encouraging more people to use cars.

I would also like to see safe bike paths everywhere, not just paint on a road that does nothing to separate you from traffic. They have this right in distant, exotic places like Copenhagen and http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/info.cfm?top=70&pa=1154&pg=3476" target="_blank" title="Copenhagen bike lanes in Melbourne">Melbourne.

What of traditional Greens concerns like climate change? I'm on top of the science, with over 25 years in academia (computer science PhD, with a second major in physics in my BSc), and understand the need to phase in alternatives gradually, rather than wait until we have no choice but to move fast in the face of environmental catastrophe.

Closer to home, I am keen to support local environmental initiatives like catchment groups. One of the great features of Brisbane life is the amazing wildlife all around us. Let's not throw all that away, and turn our great little city into another LA, dedicated to the cult of the car to exclusion of all elses.

Most of all, I want to move away from the old politics approach of telling you what's good for you. I want to hear your ideas. I will be watching here but if you want to talk directly, mosey over to my http://greenupmoggill.org/" target="_blank" title="Green Up Moggill">web site.

My website is: http://opinion-nation.blogspot.com/

Build A Bridge

Build a bridge !!!

Get Over It

My email is: ua.ten.enilnoailartsua@dnalkcub.sirhc

Kenmore Bypass

Kenmore Bypass - Your Say?

It has been announced that the Kenmore Bypass proposal will now go to a full feasibility and community consultation.

Your chance to have a say ends 26-5-08!

If our community doesn’t answer the call to make comment you can be certain nothing will happen.

That is why you need to have your say at : http://moggill.net