Bundjalung people:
- Acknowledge the local Widjabul people of the Bundjalung nation as the custodians of the land.
- Consult the custodial Elders in the approval process for significant developments.
- Respect sacred sites and those of significance to the local peoples of the Bundjalung nation.
- Promote local Aboriginal sites as tourism plans after consultation with the local Elders.
- Develop and maintain the Elders Park in Goonellabah.
Planning, Climate Change and Sustainability:
- Ensure full and open consultation on future land-use planning, rezonings and other major developments throughout our LGA.
- Commit to economic, environmental and social sustainability principles.
- Support CCP initiatives.
Trees and the Big Scrub:
- Support tree preservation programs to protect habitat in urban and rural areas.
- Ensure council’s tree protection orders and policy and procedures enhance the environment while protecting people and property.
- Work with Friends of the Koala to develop a new Plan of Management for Koalas and their habitat
- Protect and enhance remaining remnants of the Big Scrub.
- Provide additional plantings to link where feasible.
- Maintain Rotary Park in conjunction with committee and volunteers.
Our River:
- Develop practices to ensure a healthy river and riverbank.
- Enhance riverbank facilities and complete Wilson River Redevelopment project.
- Encourage outdoor dining and other appropriate businesses on the riverbank.
- Encourage use of amphitheatre performance space.
- Increase tree planting for shade and visual amenity.
- Develop a tourist brochure and signage markers along river linking historical and interest points.
- Monitor adverse effects of the levee on North and South Lismore in flood situations.
- Restore blue 1974 flood markers.
- Support the SES and emergency services that assist Lismore in times of flood and other natural and man-made disasters.
Lismore Lake:
- Monitor water levels at Lismore Lake and supplement when needed
- Promote Lismore Lake for passive recreation only.
- Promote Lismore Lake to bird watching in and outside Lismore.
- Monitor bird populations.
- Enhance bird watching by provision of hides and pathways
- Develop facilities including bbqs, pathways, cycleways that do not endanger bird habitat.
- Maintain free swimming pool.
Lismore Rainforest Botanic Gardens:
- Work with the Friends of the Lismore RBG to develop the gardens.
- Support community initiatives for the gardens.
- Support submissions for Federal and State and National Heritage Trust funding for the gardens.
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