NIMBY Groups Warn Brisbane Has Hit Peak Capacity In Teenagers Smoking Bongs Under Indro Bridge

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Brisbane’s anti-sprawl campaign is well underway this week, as the City Council reveals plans to review zoning laws.

This comes as Queenslanders join Sydney and Melbourne in adjusting their ‘Australian Dream’ to high-rise living, rather than the traditional quarter-acre block that school teacher’s used to be able to buy for less than a year’s salary.

Nearly 50 years after the city’s little brother on the Gold Coast starting building residential skyscrapers, it seems like Brissy is finally going up up up.

The push will allow for high-density housing to be built closer to major shopping centres like Indooroopilly and Nundah Village.

This comes as both state and local government vow to limit the amount of bushlands getting torn up for the type of unsustainable sprawl that has turned Western Sydney into a 50 degree city.

Carindale Shopping Centre has also been flagged as a potential location but thanks to the lack of public transport options, Brisbane’s McMansion belt is safe for now.

Apartment buildings could soar above 20 floors in the suburban Brisbane locations that have been earmarked.

However, as was imagined from the start of this conversation, the plans have been fiercely protested against by ‘community groups’ who are vowing to protect their suburb’s ‘heritage’ (property value) as well as the area’s ‘character’ (predominantly white population) from the perils of high-density living (poor people and immigrants)

The group says that there aren’t enough schools and the roads will get busy.

But more than that, there’s not enough public space for the influx of new people in their suburbs that have only been earmarked because they already have a major shopping four-story shopping centre with an adjoining train station.

“We are already at capacity for giant pubs full of high-vis” says local NIMBY, Walter Taylor (55).

“We even have a pub in the Westfield. Nobody else does that. But it’s only because we alrady have too many people moving in”

“Now they are talking about 20 storey towers. Forget NIMBY. This place will smell like NIMBIN if we cram anymore teenagers under that Indro bridge”