Nelson Weekly Locally Owned and Operated
Wednesday 25 September 2019
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Who will be the face of Nelson? Weekly pub debate heats up mayoral contest. Full coverage on pages 6 and 7.
Fears Tahuna becoming ‘concrete jungle’ Kate Russell When Joy Shackleton thinks of her long-time home of Tahunanui, the lyrics of Joni Mitchell’s song ‘Big Yellow Taxi’ come to mind. “Don’t it always seem to go that
you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone, they paved paradise and put up a parking lot.” The mother of four boys is on a mission to put a stop to the construction work that has already started on the Beach Rd section of the Great Taste Trail
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extension, next to the playing fields. Joy also wants Nelson City Council to rethink plans for the second stage of the Tahunanui Pathways Project, which will see the stage one route between Annesbrook Roundabout and
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Parkers Rd progress further down Parkers Rd, Muritai St and Waikare St with a two-way separated cycleway. Joy presented a 150-signature petition against both projects to last Thursday’s full council meeting. She’s always lived in Tahunanui
and even lives in the same house she grew up in. So, when she saw the fencing go up and the digger move into Beach Rd a few weeks ago, she thought “what on earth is that about?”
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