CANEFIELDS "SUPER CITY" ON THE GOLD COAST MUST NOT BE ANOTHER URBAN JUNGLE

The envisaged development which is now in the pipeline to be built on the increasingly commercially unviable cane farms in the Alberton to Jacobs Well corridor presents a unique opportunity.

An opportunity for the Gold Coast City Council to plan and create a truly futuristic, self contained "mini city" - with much emphasis placed on making it "eco-friendly", with substantial green buffers and parkland integrated into the development, and also for the area to retain some agricultural amenity.

Not just another overly urbanized "eyesore" with no character, a lack of green space and natural amenity, and which isn't planned from the very beginning to have enough of a commercial and industrial enterprise base to allow locals to not only live and play there - but work there as well.

Councils across the board in Queensland have town planning mindsets which are way out of date. They continue to take the easy way out - as in fast tracking the development of what you would class as being cliché urban sprawl.

Gold Coast City Council, with direct input from the Rocky Point area cane farmers, needs to buck that predictable trend and aim to make this planned  satellite city clean, green and village like, not just another mass of houses and bitumen for as far as the eye can see. How different and unique would it be for a council in Queensland to do that.