Logan Village Master Plan

A click on the word will take you to the Flyer that now is the official version after some confusion as to which was correct when several different ones were being given out to people in Logan Village, according to a reliable source.

The plan itself is being rushed through its consultation period with the only information session for the public held outside a shop in the centre a week into the comment submission period which is also questionable due to it being held over the Christmas break and the last day being the 4th January 2008.

I have to say the stories coming out of Logan Village of late are disturbing and there are many more serious allegations which I don't have background information to back up so I'm certainly not publishing them, but let me outline this one as it has been told to me.

It seems the OUM left the planning process in the urban footprint of Logan Village to Council and I assume that money was budgeted for the purpose but the work may not have been done until now, and given that after January 8th 2008 Council has no ability to make major planning decisions due to the impending amalgamation, it needs to be finalised before then and hence the big rush is on.

Council has used 'Tract Consultants', a town planning firm, for other projects including the recent Logan Village Green upgrade that also didn't consult with the community except for a select group before being given the green light, so it was easy to get them to quickly put something together, and it seems that is exactly what they did with ideas and images put forward in the proposal that come from all over Australia and date back more than ten years and are hardly relevant to the quiet rural amenity of the area under question.

Information from community members and business owners in Logan Village is that until a letter to the Editor of the local Paper alerted them they hadn't heard of the concept and a letter to them looking like an information circular was written and sent days after a letter of complaint was received by Council and yet gave no response or answer to it leading one to believe that if there was no letter in the paper the Plan could have been snuck through.

An information session was held then, another week later, and attended by Councillors and officers who tried to explain to locals about the plan and how it wouldn't affect zoning and how the Master Plan was in fact only policy underlying the town plan which would have no effect on property values and wouldn't change the character of the Village until such time as it was implemented and that it was done at the request of Logan City so that the would have it locked in before the Transition was complete. You believe all that ?

So the question is why does Logan Village need a Master Plan for development unless there is going to be some? and if there is development, where is the water and sewerage coming from? and Who gave the consultants the briefing on Logan Village to get it so wrong anyway?

Unowho

Scenic Rim Community Briefing

The Transition between Beaudesert and Boonah Shire Councils continues to happen and at this stage it appears there will be some community information available. As a sceptic, I suspect it will be an opportunity for the mayors to put their case for re-election out due the the good job they are doing dismantling our shire .

It does puzzle me to see the recent action by a group from the south, which will be in the Scenic Rim Council now making a lot of noise about moving the BSC/Logan boundary further north now that it has become apparent how weak, financially, the new Council will probably be for quite some time even if the go is given for that State Development Area along the Logan River, and it prompts the question; where were you all when the first group organised petitions to ask the AEC to hold a referendum to determine if our shire wanted the mergers or not?

It seems that the Mayor is also backing the new group and even thought her Council eventually capitulated and asked for the Plebiscite to be run on their behalf (rather than a community group) I feel the motive is more about increasing the rate base than doing the right thing for residents of the North who will be in Logan on March 16 Next year.

Any way, you can hear for yourself according to a notice in last week's Beaudesert Times about a community briefing to be held about the new Scenic Rim council -

7pm Wednesday 12 December
The Centre, 82 Brisbane St, Beaudesert

10 am Saturday 15 December
Boonah District Cultural Centre, 3 High St Boonah

Guest speakers will include - Joy Drescher, John Brent (Boonah Mayor), Mr Ian Flint (Interim CEO Scenic Rim Council).