Please Sign The Victoria Park Support Petition

[Howie]

Sign the Victoria Park Support Petition

Wednesday, 12 December 2007

The rejection of the proposed Victoria Park grandstand by the Adelaide City Council as a result of a vocal campaign by nostalgic minorities is a backwards step for Adelaide and South Australia as a whole. It is a short-sighted decision based on fear and not reason.

The Victoria Park grandstand is a visionary project designed to provide permanent and superior facilities for the award winning Clipsal 500 event. Such a project would enhance our competitiveness in being able to retain if not bid for more world class events, which add to the vitality but also to the economy of our state.

Furthermore the proposed grandstand would facilitate the renaissance of Victoria Park into a premier horse racing venue, something which the under-utilized and tired facilities of today are incapable of achieving. The Victoria Park grandstand would allow Adelaide to put its best foot forward.

A permanent structure on the parklands is not a threat to our unique parklands, but rather an enhancement. Had it not been for similar visionary projects, we would not have Adelaide Oval, the zoo, Adelaide University, the Museum and Art Gallery amongst many other structures built on the parklands, which have become valued additions to our city. The proposed Victoria Park grandstand is no different.

As such, I as a progress-loving citizen of Adelaide or to the state of South Australia hereby declare my full and un-wavering support for the Victoria Park re-development in its full and original form.

To sign the petition please follow the link here : http://www.sensational-adelaide.com/petitions/vicpark

Note: You can ignore the donation message on ipetition website after you sign.

[Hotwire]

Done!

Well done setting it up

[Whiplash]

done

[Mr Sniper911]

Done......

What are we becoming here..... "SA the retirement state where progress happened in the past?"

Goodluck!

[Howie]

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[bezender]

done

[cruzin33]

Done

[Whiplash]

haha i just noticed i wrote my name wrong

i'll post this up on the ford forums for you howie if thats ok

[Howie]

Absolutely Nick, spread the word. Hopefully we can get this decision overturned.

[heslo]

Done

[darkhorse]

i've signed ~! it's a good thing for Adelaide, and adelaide will be more exciting place to be~! Yeah~

[KISIN]

done

[R334door(s2)]

done

[harvesteros]

Done.

[webng]

Good work Howie!

Having worked on both the initial proposal that was rejected by ACC and the demountable structure that is now proposed, it is such a shame that this development has been stopped. There's no other city in the world that has the potential to access so many major events from within 10mins from the CBD. To have the ability to walk to the cricket, tennis, festival centre, convention centre, and what would have been the horse racing and motor racing, would have given such a boost to the life to the city. It is of upmost importance that Adelaide is city centric to keep moving forward. Thing is, the SAJC will probably end up moving out of Vic Park altogether which means the eye-sores that are the dilapidated buildings along Fullarton and Wakefield Rds that are there will be there to stay.

All this because of the very influential East End residences that consider Vic Park as their own personal back yard.

p.s. jeez that's a pretty old image you have there Howie! i'll post up a slightly more updated image if interested.

[Howie]

Also Nick. Would love an updated render if you have one mate!

Btw, so far we've got 100 sigs on our first day!.. our aim is now 1000 signatures before the 23rd December (weekend), it'll be going in the Sunday Mail - hopefully this will give the gov a mandate from the people.

[webng]

Also Nick. Would love an updated render if you have one mate!

Btw, so far we've got 100 sigs on our first day!.. our aim is now 1000 signatures before the 23rd December (weekend), it'll be going in the Sunday Mail - hopefully this will give the gov a mandate from the people.

No worries. I've forwarded the petition to the entire office so wait for the ball to start rolling. Unfortunately it looks like the online petition is limited to the single IP address so they'll have to sign in from their home computer since i've already signed it.

Edited December 13, 2007 by webng

[MikeyGTRmike]

done. also forwarded it to a few people

[typevu]

Signed it... will pass on to others too!

[SLED]

Done.