Opinion New AFC HQ: We're on like Donkey Kong!

[Pugsley]

Is that a Rucci alias?

What is with his tragic attempt at a handlebar mo. The bloke is all kinds of sad.

 

[FR0GGY]

So we even have to listen to the residents or are we just doing it to be nice?

 

[chazwazza]

I reckon if I was a resident unsure of the proposed development and read some of the comments on here it’d make up my mind for me pretty quickly.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

I reckon if I was a resident unsure of the proposed development and read some of the comments on here it’d make up my mind for me pretty quickly.

Every development is a battle against residents no matter what

Heck getting back to Unley Oval was a battle

 

[GrommoT]

So we even have to listen to the residents or are we just doing it to be nice?

Yeah, I think we do have to listen to residents as the WT council will want to keep as many residents as possible happy.

If we do the right thing and accommodate residents' feedback as much as we can within reason, then the council will be able to reject demands of a relative small number of nimbys with unreasonable demands and approve our proposal.

If we are seen to be arrogant and the majority if residents turn on us, then we'd be in strife with that development.

 

[StonesThrow]

That area is pretty lucky already with plenty of nice spaces along the Torrens and not far from Bonython. One of the last suburbs that should complain about lack of green space options.

 

[chazwazza]

Every development is a battle against residents no matter what

Heck getting back to Unley Oval was a battle

Yep, it was still a battle at Unley decades after we moved back mainly due to one councillor

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Yep, it was still a battle at Unley decades after we moved back mainly due to one councillor

And one prominent past player rallying against us!

 

[chazwazza]

And one prominent past player rallying against us!

Who was that?

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Who was that?

John Paynter

 

[chazwazza]

John Paynter

Didn’t know that.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Didn’t know that.

He was a local resident and led the protest against us returning. Car parking on match days, fences/access to the oval etc

The temporary fences we have to take down and put up every single home game are a leftover from the negotiations with residents

 

[MatthewB]

John Paynter

that's a name i haven't heard in a long time

 

[TheRankineFile]

that's a name i haven't heard in a long time

You mean Old Ben Paynter?

 

[brucetiki]

John Paynter

He puts the Payn in Paynter

 

[From The Pocket]

Summary Report here.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Letter to the editor today

 

[George Kramer]

Letter to the editor today

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How about **** off

 

[SellarStardom]

So what's this stuff about second oval needing to be smaller?

Community gets 2 proper open public ovals, much better facilities and trees will be retained, what a bunch of w*nkers

 

[Concussion test]

Letter to the editor today

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Shrouded in secrecy.....
Amazed that so many of these people can write but can't read

 

[AC07]

Shrouded in secrecy.....
Amazed that so many of these people can write but can't read

It’s not that they can’t read. She is the daughter of this guy! Pleased to meet you, Chris Yiallouros

 

[Concussion test]

It’s not that they can’t read. She is the daughter of this guy! Pleased to meet you, Chris Yiallouros

That Park 23 looks under utilised. Maybe we should spare the good folk of Torrensville and move there

 

[Dirty Bird]

Letter to the editor today

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SMH

So the stuff you're losing is due to infrastructure improvement which have nothing to do with the Crows

And what the Crows are doing, are revitalising the area and increasing facilities (and access to them)

 

[El Doederino]

Get ready for more shenanigans

They are now trying to argue that a handful of trees are "World War 1 Commemorative Trees". No further info, just an accusation based on google searches and a hunch. But expect this to get legs.

These commemorative trees that no one knows are there in a park that no one uses is meant to stop this development apparantly.

Its on the agenda for tonight's council meeting. Hopefully the council bat this away.

 

[El Doederino]

This is the website for Avenues of Honour, which is a national project to document and preserve such commemorative trees.

Nothing listed for Thebarton.

The site has been active since at least 2004.

In 19 years this hasn't come up.

Places – Avenues of Honour

avenuesofhonour.org