PLANS to rezone 16 council parks have stirred a string of resident meetings ahead of a November 27 deadline to finalise the town plan.
The most recent group up in arms met in Alexandra Hills on Sunday to discuss Redland City Council plans to rezone Workington Street park from open space to residential low density.
Their meeting followed Redland City Bulletin publishing a leaked list of 35 sites considered for rezoning in 2014 as part of a land divestment plan to raise capital and ditch “surplus” properties.
Workington Street park spokesman Robyn Grayson said there was concern rezoning would result in land being sold and carved up into 400sq m lots.
“There are flow-on effects such as increased traffic, noise, loss of amenity and security, and most definitely there will be a detrimental impact on the green corridor.”
Similar rezoning plans for 53 Fischer Road, Thorneside, and for a park at Bunker Road, Victoria Point, sparked outrage from residents and environmental groups last week.
The Victoria Point land, bordering Eprapah Creek, was gifted to council as open space for a koala corridor in 1996 but the proposal is to rezone it from conservation to low-medium density and allow units.
In the leaked document to Redland City Bulletin, council identified the site as "surplus" in October 2014.
Eprapah Creek Catchment Landcare Association coordinator Lynn Roberts, pictured, regularly tests the creek's water and said it failed last year's Healthy Waterways survey.
"Eprapah Creek needs more conservation buffers, not less and more development on such a sensitive creek is crazy," she said.
A council spokesman said no decision had been made about the zoning and encouraged residents to voice concerns during consultation for the City Plan.
Council said the proposed zone change was in line with the planning scheme’s intention of containing urban growth in specified areas.
The spokesman said the proposed rezoning would ensure council met state obligations to find room for an estimated extra 50,000 people and 26,000 new homes between now and 2041.