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1 hour ago, New display name said:

What on earth is this?

Indoor drop tower confirmed/s

1 hour ago, Guest 239 said:

New supporting documents and plans released to the public:
Plans.pdfSupporting Documents.pdf



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Idk about you but I feel like having a the hotel taller then DCR will take away from the feeling like your higher then everything else when your on rivals. It might shrink it a little. Ofc giant drop is taller but it’s far enough away to still feel like when your going over that drop your on top of the world

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2 minutes ago, REGIE said:

Idk about you but I feel like having a tower taller then DCR will take away from the feeling like your higher then everything else when your on rivals.

Yeah that was my thought initially but this projected view in the documents kinda eased that worry a little.

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13 minutes ago, REGIE said:

Indoor drop tower confirmed/s

Idk about you but I feel like having a the hotel taller then DCR will take away from the feeling like your higher then everything else when your on rivals. It might shrink it a little. Ofc giant drop is taller but it’s far enough away to still feel like when your going over that drop your on top of the world

Don't look at it.🤷‍♀️

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3 hours ago, REGIE said:

Even village forgot it’s real name. Since 98% of people call it joker anyway they might as well change the name

Everyone I know calls it Rivals…

FYI - no one working for Village is putting this application together, it’s an external company they’ve engaged that specialises in DA’s/planning etc, and would just be a naming error by them 

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The area isn't known as Cades County. The substation was built in the Cades County days and the name has stuck.

 

Quick history lesson for you. The original owner of Cades County had a theme-park approved to be built where MW is now located and was to be named "Around the world in 8 hours" or something like that.

 

 

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Haha that was hilarious. Good on ya @DaptoFunlandGuy  So many looney’s. Build it at dreamworld one says 😂 I am sure DW would love their competition to build and pay for a hotel for DW.  I can’t say I am completely in favour of the hotel how ever I can see the benefits.  If rooms were affordable I would definitely stay there from time to time.  I also like that it forces DW to either expand the park instead of do a hotel or it means they gotta think more outside the box on an attempt at having a hotel/resort.  My only concern is it taking away from the MW skyline but top golf has already ruined it so it won’t really matter.  Either way I am excited to see what happens and I definitely won’t lose any sleep over which way they end up going. I loved reading the objections 😂 

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8 minutes ago, Slick said:

Really appreciate you taking the time to filter through some of the submissions. I almost get "Clarkson's Farm Season 2" vibes, except instead of an insane council, the locals seem clearly opposed to a tent-pole business that literally makes their entire local community grow.

Happy to - i was interested and humorously summarising them as I went wasn't much additional effort.

I especially loved the contradictions - some people said it would close down local businesses because they would lose patronage to the big hotel, while others said that local businesses wouldn't cope with the increased visitation from all the extra tourists staying nearby. 

The Koala habitat thing just blows my mind too - they clearly have no idea. 

I will say - many objections i've listed haven't detailed every single complaint. It was getting a bit repetitive so I edited each down a little by excluding the things being said constantly (like traffic, noise, light pollution and koalas) that seemed to be a very common theme.

6 minutes ago, REGIE said:

So many looney’s

Technically only 1, with a possible second.

 

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33 minutes ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:

The Energex objection alleges the following (my emphasis):

So the entire substation is already built lower than the Q100 flood level. A 55mm increase in levels may mean the site is impacted earlier, but it sounds like Energex already knows that they have a problem, and i'm wondering why they haven't already taken steps to mitigate the flood levels since their equipment is already around 500mm lower than the flood line.

 

The Q100 goes up all the time and a big chunk of the gold coast is under the Q100 because of this, but the fact remains, you can't build on your property and make flooding worse on the neighbouring property.  All this means is MW will have to create flood storage on their property.  Council were already unsatisfied with the flood issues before Energex objection.

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2 minutes ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:

The Koala habitat thing just blows my mind too - they clearly have no idea. 

It is funny how dumb some of the reasons people are voting no are TBH. "Koalas will lose their habitats" and "Village should build there hotel at Dreamworld" just makes me laugh. I have also noticed that the people wanting the hotel are generally smarter than the people opposing it.

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6 minutes ago, TBoy said:

It is funny how dumb some of the reasons people are voting no are TBH. "Koalas will lose their habitats" and "Village should build there hotel at Dreamworld" just makes me laugh. I have also noticed that the people wanting the hotel are generally smarter than the people opposing it.

Change is the great fear that fuels NIMBYs.

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13 minutes ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:

When they dig up the existing high voltage main, they can just not backfill the trench, and that'll give plenty of flood storage! /s

That's why you get paid the big bucks @DaptoFunlandGuy🤣

15 minutes ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:

The Koala habitat thing just blows my mind too - they clearly have no idea. 

It might blow your mind but the Gold Coast council in the last couple of years have created a koala paperwork nightmare with Council zoning anything with a eucalypt tree, environment significance land.

MW is on environment signific land according to council.

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The only objection that has any teeth is the Energex objection, which can be sorted if MW decide to spend the money on it.   MW being shocked Energex is objecting is a strange one because the first time Energex has probably seen the flood reports was after the application was lodged.  MW would have had discussions about moving the infrastructure under the property and this is what Energex would have agreed to.

As seen by attached request by council, MW didn’t submit the flood calculations with the application, so I highly doubt Energex had seen them.

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The other objections are pointless (it’s really just a way for council letting people have a winge).  MW already had an approval for a hotel so 99% of the concerns were delt with the original approval.  Besides Energex issues with flood, everything else is a tick & flick. 

 

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Considering the budget is 333M I am sure they could spend some of that on dealing with the floods better. Put in some big tanks or something 

8 hours ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:

Technically only 1, with a possible second

Don’t be too hard on your self. 

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11 hours ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:

What I did find though is that many of the objectors did not appear to have read through the application or its associated studies and other supporting documents and have made very large assumptions which mostly appear to be false.

That’s usually what happens with development applications. So many people object with such irreverent or ridiculous reasons that the majority just get overlooked because they’re stupid. A lot of the time, the people who actually write these complaints are either direct neighbours (who likely bought the home knowing the theme park was next door) or they have nothing better to do. The only comments I would acknowledge are the ones in regards to traffic, but as the report comments on this, it is very likely the planners and council won’t have any issues with this application.

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At least, in the spirit of good fun and good news, they’re planning on tearing down that stupid light sign along the M1.

Should redirect some of that much needed electricity to a place that so desperately needs it.

https://7news.com.au/news/qld/controversial-gold-coast-public-art-installation-to-be-torn-down-c-10038377.amp

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5 minutes ago, New display name said:

What does that have to do with anything?

 

It's tangential sir, but it checks out...

On 20/03/2023 at 9:31 AM, DaptoFunlandGuy said:
  • Woman is all for bringing money into the northern gold coast, but doesn't want hotel that will bring more money to the northern gold coast. Complains about the waste of electricity for Lantern and DCR, says nothing of the stupid street light art on the M1. Thinks the hotel should be half the size and powered by plants.

 

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