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A LEGAL CHALLENGE by residents who will be affected by Council’s Byron Bay Butler Street bypass looks set to be heard in court after a recent mediation conference failed to come to any compromise.
Council is planning to divert the Jonson Street main road to a bypass that would run past the Butler Street Recreation Reserve and markets, through a heritage conservation area of homes, through protected wetland habitat. The bypass would emerge at Mitre 10 at the end of Jonson Street.
Commissioner Maston from the Land and Environment Court attended a site inspection on Friday December 2 to hear the concerns from Butler Street residents as well as market stallholders association representative Gyan Purno.
Councillors Cate Coorey, Jan Hackett and Paul Spooner were also present, along with legal representatives and Council staff.
What the hell has it got to do with stall holders at the markets?
The only ones you should be listening to are the ratepayers and the people who live here, not the ones who come to town make a buck then p.o.
Before you jump on me, Markets are good and we should have them, but in the right place.
But let us get on trying to find an answer to our traffic problem and god do we need one! I myself, in all my years of living here, I’ve never seen anything like it.
Parking, shopping, just trying to get to the beach, a beach part of my life growing up, when I thought it was the only place on earth.
I can’t put my foot on the beach or walk around the rocks were I played, all because of traffic problems.
No, listen to your local ratepayers and residents – we are the ones who have to put up with this greedy man-made shit.
Personally I think its beyond repair – the damage has been done.
No by pass will stop people coming in, we have the biggest bypass around – its called the Pacific Highway.