- Dec 7, 2016
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The whole suburb - that's impressive. Not bad for a club that can barely keep its football department together. This is a Club which is still only paying down its debts by means of the Box On Campaign which rakes in $280,000 per-year. Since when did North Melbourne Football Club have a City Planning or Civil Engineering Department? Keep the perspective that they are just musing their ideas to try to garner an appeal to the Council. It's not unlike the Western Bulldogs lavish plans to develop Whitten Oval into an 18,000 seat boutique stadium. It's aspirational at best, but not a serious plan that will survive one or two more Melbourne City Council terms much less two State Governments. At best, the Arden Street oval zone will coat tail onto the Arden Station development and will ultimately end up being blocked in by apartments, convenience stores and eateries. Any available land (and there's not much of it available around there) for recreational purposes in the precinct would likely be allocated as public spaces (mainly for children), and certainly not for the North Melbourne FC's exclusive use."our plans for the entire frigging suburb?"
As I said, I know and appreciate your thoughts on the matter and I have mine, just accept that we're not going to agree and leave it there.
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