The Master Plan and Activation Strategy is a BOLD and BRAVE document put together by the Tasmanian consultants with some great ideas. Do read the detail and complete the survey. Their effort and that of the Council hands-on Council project manager should be congratulated for all the effort this weekend. Well done A.R.
The process to select participants could have been improved and the advertising much wider and longer plus a schedule of pop-up events would have helped.
The consultants listened and explained their views. Some good others ..very poor like closing the south side boat ramp is not accepted but many other ideas are good.
The choice between a "Youth Central" and an existing boat ramp is not an either or choice as per the survey form - so dont be fooled. Object.
The boat ramp is not a decision made by Council. It is Dept of Lands paid for in the most part by boat licence fees. So dont any Council employee think that it will be closed down without either a big fight or some negotiation of an off-set for alternative facilities.
Like what? More floating pontoons at say the oyster farms jetty west of Lions Park. Not a new idea.
So what next?
Will these ideas be negotiated away by the power that be? Will there be no money to go forward? Or will all the ideas be collated, dissected, reviewed and consolidated to pop out the answers that the powers that be and vested interests want?
Well take a bold step into the sunlight, be transparent, get moving and just do something NOW to show that the Council is serious about activating the foreshore and improving the water land interface.
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