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An ABC of Expressions used by Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority

SHFA's ABC SHFA's Real Meaning
Architectural competition A convenient trick to "consult" the community, but it makes no difference because we will pick the winner we want, anyway
Bitumen What we will use to build the 10m wide footpath - sorry, we mean "the quality open space providing public access to the foreshore"
Community consultation Community? Consultation? - Isn't that where we get to do leaflet drops at taxpayer expense telling the community what we are going to do to them
Development application A legal requirement. A DA has to be approved before a development can proceed. Luckily it's not a big deal because SHFA prepares, assesses and recommends its own DAs
Enhanced public domain See bitumen and open space
Foreshore Development opportunity
Government Who gets the money when we lease and sell off public land
Heritage Inconvenient considerations a few cranks use to obstruct our development plans
Income That's what we want, right now - don't worry about long-term consequences
Jumbled overdevelopment What some people mistakenly think we are creating on the harbour - they just don't understand high quality development, with public access to the foreshore and open spaces to create community neighbourhoods, when they see them!
Known facts Information to be manipulated, for example "building development on public land" = "giving public access to the site for the first time in 100 years"
Link to the surrounding areas Buildings
Master plan The overall plan for a site's development - that we can change if it doesn't suit us
Neighbourhood plaza A paved patch between road, buildings and bitumen (see bitumen )
Open space Paths and the bits of the development between the building footprints
Public access to the harbour A path, half to one cricket pitch in width
Quality development Residential units
Residential units That's where the money is, so we want as many of these as we can get away with on each site
Statutory development process SHFA's power to prepare its own master plans for approval by its minister, prepare its own development applications, assess its own DAs, recommend them to the minister for approval, and select a developer. Too bad if you don't like it, coz it's legal.
Transparent, open development process Secret, closed development process
Urban renewal Opportunity for over development
View corridors What you are left with after we put up foreshore buildings to block out the old views
Waterfront neighbourhood Buildings - with a neighbourhood plaza (see "neighbourhood plaza")
Your concerns for open space SHFA addresses these by building multi storey buildings on public land and calling the bits between building "quality open space"
Zero The level of SHFA's respect for the long-term interests of the community