Why you should care?

They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel *, a boutique
And a swinging hot spot

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

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

Big yellow Taxi – Joni Mitchell

It is your park

Tell the state government “hands off our parkland.” If they sell it off it is unlikely that the money will be spent on local infrastructure.

Open green space is not wasted space. It is essential to the health and welfare of the community.
Growing population pressure in suburbs increases the need for active and passive recreation spaces.
Do you want high-rise, $10 beers, a playground for the rich…or a space for the community?
Developers are only in it for the bottom line – profit. They will always want more land including land that belongs to the community. Our parks must be preserved.
The Jetty Foreshore is one of our defences against rising sea levels.
The Jetty Foreshore is an essential element of the heritage of Coffs Harbour. Future enhancement should provide an opportunity for the community and visitors to engage with that heritage – both Aboriginal and European. Current interpretation of that heritage is poor.
The parkland provides opportunities for cultural exchange. We are a diverse multicultural region and the Jetty should be a place to showcase this wonderful asset.
Community access to all of the parkland must be maintained and recreational activities catered for in any future development. It’s important that our kids have these spaces and their kids in the future.
The construction of high rise on the foreshore means increased traffic flow and exacerbates the parking problems that already exist. This, in turn, impacts on how the community and tourists access and use the parkland.