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The weather has not kept these figures from coming out to play in the bay.
Well with the tagging around Freyberg St, Queensdrive and Onepu Road in the bay I once again find myself thinking and wondering about progress, is it a good thing is it needed or in our need to progree do we infact end up distroying what we have and what people enjoy about an area.
Those of you that live in the bay will know that the tagging in the area has only really been noticable to the degree that is now over abot the last 3 years and I have to wonder is it because someone or something has moved into the area or is because someone or some group is branching out into the suburbs of the south coast ?
im not trying to discount people moving into the bay though I do worry if the plans for in-fill housig are still being tossed around with the kind of things that have been talked over in the time that i have been here regarding in-fill housing and an overall population increase i feel it will wreck the unique feel of what we have.
Maybe i am being a ludite and trying to hard to hold onto the past, I guess i am trying to make sure we dont loose what is special about our little corner of the world.
If there are plans for Lyall Bay and the South Coast that will see a population increase, lets make sure we do it in a way that is respectful and not rip shit and bust so we get more people in, make loney and than regret it latter.
Anyways, please feel free to comment, discount what i have said or suggest what you would like to see along the south coast.
Joe
Updated 1900: 27 March
I went on a bit of an amble before round the bay, very nice but i came across this and it well once again made me think what price do we pay for progress, im not out to promote the new housing and hey im not anti progress as long as we dont loose the history and feel of what a place is.
But looking at the pictures the forsale sign and the house they are looking to build vs the house that is there at the moment which one would you rather have, for me it would have to be the house that is there at the moment as the picture of the house on the for sale sign just looks to cold and inpersonal.
