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NACCAi ordinary meeting this Saturday 13 August from 2-4pm

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bobreidTue, 09/08/2022 - 7:07pm

The NACCAi August ordinary meeting will be held this Saturday 13 August 2022 at the Community Centre from 2-4 pm.

Members and residents are invited to attend.

Stay for a cuppa and chat afterwards.

The agenda and the minutes of the May 2022 ordinary meeting are attached.

The meeting will be chaired by John Kugel.

North Arm Cove and Carrington Local Community Plan

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bobreidSat, 06/08/2022 - 9:11pm

I am pleased to advise that the North Arm Cove and Carrington Local Community Plan has been completed.

When we first started preparing it in February 2021, following instigation of the process in mid 2020 by MidCoast Council, we didn't expect it would take so long. But despite Covid lockdowns, steering group members leaving the Cove, disagreements with Council staff on the plan content, and then Council rescinding the community plan framework without any consultation, we have finally got a completed plan.

Yallarwah Park exercise track - update on progress

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bobreidSun, 31/07/2022 - 10:10pm

We finally have an executed grant funding deed, and the first instalment of the grant ($72k out of $90k) has been paid into the NACCAi bank account.

This means that we can now order the exercise equipment and the concrete path.

The concrete exercise path will be 1.5m wide and 250m long,  and wind around the edge of Yallarwah Park and through the treed area on the eastern side.

MidCoast Council - waterways and rural zones in rural strategy submissions being considered at this month's Council meeting

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bobreidSun, 24/07/2022 - 9:12pm

At Council's Ordinary meeting this coming week (Wednesday 27 July) Council will be considering rural strategy submisions on:

  • A. Waterway Zones – zone criteria, land uses and development standards; and
  • B. Rural Zones – zone criteria, land uses and development standards. 

The minutes for the meeting contain a detailed report on these zones, together with responses to these submissions and details of any proposed changes to the Rural Strategy as a result of them.

Today's featured/historical article ...

Present vegetation - a short history

Submitted by mpickles on Mon, 06/02/2012 - 12:33pm
Introduction to the present vegetation of North Arm Cove

Aboriginal Lands. The area would likely have been natural grassland and open woodland that was cared for by the clans of the Worrimi tribe.(More on the original grasslands later).

Post European Settlement .Since the time of European settlement with the arrival of the Australian Agricultural Company in the 1830’s, much of the original eucalypt woodland vegetation was cleared or extensively thinned and converted to grassland, where the original natural grassland did not exist. The bushland that we see around the cove now is open forests and woodlands that has regrown...

 

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