I am some-what bemused that the builders, Hutchinson's, has managed to get the GCCC to:
1) remove all the parking spaces on the south side of Alexandra Ave., from Hedges Ave to the school crossing, and replace with a loading zone - only to have it used as personal parking for their site workers, thus forcing the cranes, tip-trucks & cement delivery trucks to queue up on the north side of Alexandra Ave. in the BUS STOP in front of the school crossing.
2) install 'FOOTPATH CLOSED' barricades between #2 up to, and including, #8 Alexandra Ave.with one of the barricades not only being erected on private property but denying pedestrian access to #8 forcing them to walk on the road.
3) Today they have installed BOOM GATES at the school crossing and #2 Alexander Ave.
It is already a nightmare when twice a day Alexandra Ave. becomes a CAR PARK as parents drop off / pick up their children.
When I moved into Alexandra Ave. the south side was all day parking and there was a height limit for development in Mermaid Beach - south of Alexandra Ave. - then came the 3 hour limit for 'the games - and are still here', and the no standing yellow lines being invisible to parents as apparently never policed and now - skies the limit for developers..
I was even refused a 'residents parking permit' for my daughter, who is a nurse and incurs shift work, and has been booked more than once, while sleeping.
I am not against progress, just the disrespect given to permanent residents.
Where are the future owners of these multi story projects going to park their vehicles?
Why is there not a ruling insisting that two car spaces be provided per bedroom
- any surplus spaces could be let to local employees servicing our tourism industry.
Disappointing
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