THE BYRON SHIRE Volume 23 #22 Tuesday, November 4, 2008 Mullumbimby 02 6684 1777 Byron Bay 02 6685 5222 Fax 02 6684 1719
[email protected] [email protected] www.echo.net.au Pages 19 - 21 22,700 copies every week REALITY BY A HALF HEAD Council seeks to exhibit new LEP Michael McDonald key strategic directions as they af- fect the planning document. Cr Bar- Unease pipped Confusion at the post ham found the LEP process to date in the Local Environmental Plan confusing and sought greater clarity: Stakes last Friday. Byron Shire coun- ‘This is meant to be our community cillors struggled to come to grips document to define the future.’ with the new draft LEP, staff stressed Mayor Barham was also critical the urgency of getting the plan on of the way the LEP was progressed public exhibition, and Belongil resi- through Council without council- dent John Vaughan voiced concerns lor input through a formal planning over some of the plan’s ‘arduous and committee. ‘I’d like to return to that stringent’ zonings. time-honoured tradition, ‘ she said. The process was no easier for the She described some of the state general public and the media. An- government planning templates as nexures from an earlier meeting were ‘not appropriate’ and said the LES missing from the agenda papers and ‘shouldn’t have cost $100,000’. one related report only turned up in During public access Mr Vaughan, paper form on the day. the lone speaker, claimed that, un- You will believe a turtle can fly: Australian Seabird Rescue’s Garry Fenton gets ready to release Rasputin at The And what was meant to be a meet- der the new LEP zonings, property Pass last Friday.