I suppose you all saw the article in this week’s Jimboomba Times headed: “Council refloats relocation of school.” The article goes on to ask if Jimboomba State School should remain where it is or be relocated to land in East Street to make way for an extended business centre. Now, I am aware that this idea has been around for a while but I still wonder if it was given additional impetus by the revelation on my old blog “Carthorse Cart”, that Bogan councillor Madigan Axeman was proposing the same thing.
This was the relevant passage:
When the proposed Bromelton in-land port was mooted, he was straight in with a plan to construct a dry dock at Jimboomba. His innovative design is for a huge facility capable of servicing a vast range of craft from tugboats to oil tankers.
“I have a bit of land behind the police station at Jimboomba,” Mad enthuses, “and if council can get the school and library shifted it will give us enough space to enjoy an amenity that this area sadly lacks at the moment.”
I am not for one moment suggesting that life imitates art, because I would not dream of implying that anything on a blog of mine is art, anymore than I would imply that Logan councillors even remotely resemble life. However, I do worry that someone on council may be taking my ideas a little too seriously and I am particularly suspicious of that reference to “refloating” in The Jimboomba Times article.
I also saw the write up about three new town plans for the Jimboomba area. We are expected to choose one of the three and presumably don’t have the option to mix and match. I’m always suspicious of those “pick one” choices given by any government body. Invariably the choices have been cleverly crafted to make us pick the one already decided on.
For example:
Pick One of the Following.
A) Would you like a new multi-million dollar shit processing plant built on one side of your property and a battery chook farm on the other?
OR
B) Would you like a massive communication tower erected in your back yard where it can cook your breakfast and microwave your kids at the same time?
OR
C) Would you like to sell your property to the council for 75% of its market value?
I haven’t seen the three proposals for Jimboomba but I know that one option is for Jimboomba to remain as a quiet semi-rural community. I would guess that this option might be the most popular because, in the main, it’s why we chose to live here. But I also know that it’s not what is wanted by council and their developer friends. So I fully expect the other options to include lots of good stuff like park and ride, rail transport, proper street lights and drains and so on, while the ‘rural option’ will include provision for a Taipan and Death Adder reserve around Henderson Creek, two more accident black spots and a paedophile rehabilitation half-way house next to the play school.
On the other hand, I might just be coming across as cynical and unfair, as usual.
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Yes it is cynical and unfair of you and nearly everyone else to want to protect the amenity and quiet enjoyment of their rural lifestyle but we are constantly told by a certain councillor that we need more transport options, better bus services and better roads and that those of us who oppose those views are some kind of minority radical who is having a personal attack on them.
ReplyDeleteParts of the plan are common with what we saw from the old beaudesert days of one long continued industrial/commercial precinct from Park Ridge to Jimboomba and it's still disapointing that it seems planners only are concerned with house and land packages and a few shops and call that development and masterplanned at that.
I may just be the most sceptical of all because I wonder at the input of certain people and what exactly their interests in pushing particular developments are, for instance the "pub lane jobbie" where we see even the roads almost push us into those shops and it's a detour to go past that is not easy as you are having to give way to those good citizens who have already done their duty and shopped til they dropped and now with ballances considerably lower they must head home without delay.
But who got paid and how? and are they still getting a share of the profits?
Jimboomba seems to be an open book, but is it, who are the affiliates of the developers already in place and what are the connections that get things done?
Something doesn't quite smell right in my opinion and it all points to council and will probably be able to be pieced together at P&D meetings, more by who does not attend them than who does and what is said and done at them it seems.
One would have to look at the 'players' in Jimboomba. Not only the cr but those in the background - numbers growing.
ReplyDeleteIt would appear that we have another Logan Central in the making but with the connotation of 'anything they can do we can do better'. Of course there is also the opportunity to increase bank balances.
Any other 'development' is immediately knocked on the head if it does not serve interested parties - like the one proposed on cnr of Greenbank Rd and Mt Lindesay H'way. No shares available?
From rags to riches for some.