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This is NOT how the parking bays in Drayton Street, Nanango, should look … the home-painted angled bays have since been painted over (Photo: Jane Erkens)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Street Cams May Catch ‘Vandals’<\/strong><\/center>South Burnett Councillor Damien Tessmann said the people who painted in the parking bays could be facing serious consequences.<\/p>\n

Cr Tessmann said police had been contacted and there was the possibility there could be video of the incident.<\/p>\n

“Cameras on the traffic lights will most likely have picked up something,” he said.<\/p>\n

“The perpetrators are on notice. Provisions in the Traffic Act have been broken and it is vandalism of a public asset. There could be serious repercussions.”<\/p>\n

Cr Tessmann said the barriers Council had erected had also been stolen.<\/p>\n

He said the safety issues were “just too great” to have angled parking along the street.<\/p>\n

“You could see that on Tuesday morning. There was a truck parked there and its backside was right out into the traffic,” he said. “It would be a recipe for disaster.”<\/p>\n

Cr Tessmann said the parking issue was why Council had gone to so much expense with the Scott Car Park, purchasing more land, resurfacing the area and installing shade sails.<\/p>\n

He asked residents to be patient, saying $900,000 had been set aside for the Nanango streetscape in today’s Council Budget.<\/p>\n

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July 25, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Enterprising Nanango residents, sick of waiting for upgrades to Drayton Street, this week decided to paint in their own angled parking bays outside local shops.<\/p>\n

The roughly painted lines appeared overnight on Monday.<\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, council quickly blocked off the area with barriers and the offending lines were later painted over.<\/p>\n

Nanango businesswoman Jane Erkens said the incident reflected local businesspeople’s frustration with delays to the Nanango CBD upgrade.<\/p>\n

She said the original plans, shown to residents before the makeover commenced, showed angled parking bays and a leafy green streetscape.<\/p>\n

But instead, the few plants that had been in Drayton Street – Nanango roses – had been removed and concrete had been installed where the gardens had been indicated.<\/p>\n

Ms Erkens said she had now heard the angled parking bays would not be happening, either.<\/p>\n

“We were told that it was going to be green with little shrubs,” she said.<\/p>\n

“What are they going to do, dig up the concrete they’ve put in?<\/p>\n

“The original plan also showed angled parking (to replace the lost bays in the centre of the road) but afterwards they discovered it was too narrow.”<\/p>\n

She said the lost parking spaces were hurting local businesses because people could no longer pull up for a short time and pop into a shop.<\/p>\n

The original plans had also shown cobbled walkways, she said; these had been laid as just plain concrete.<\/p>\n

Ms Erkens questioned whether anyone from the South Burnett Regional Council had consulted with Main Roads before the plans were drawn up or if they were just pretty drawings.<\/p>\n

“I think it was a figment of their imagination,” she said.<\/p>\n

“Obviously the plans we were originally shown are not going to happen.”<\/p>\n

She said she had heard new plans were being drawn up.<\/p>\n

Ms Erkens suggested that if this is being done, a little space be taken off the footpaths to enable the angled bays to be re-instated.<\/p>\n

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How Nanango’s CBD upgrade was originally imagined … looking down Drayton Street from Fitzroy to Henry streets<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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