Our neighbourhood has enough…

Our neighbourhood has enough emissions as it is. Emissions don't just effect ones living right by the factory (ie. Terragon, Viella), it affects also the pocket I live in - near Harwood school. The unpleasant odours of slaughter are a constant part of our daily life. Not only do we have smells from meat packers but we also get emissions from the car wreckers on McCormack as well as other industries there. For example, the smell of paint is almost overpowering some days as there are car repair shops also on McCormack as well as other business. Combine this with meat packers, breweries, malls and the Bermuda Triangle of traffic and you will see that you should not be allowing St Helen's to proceed with this. The Stockyards neighbourhood has evolved over the years and we should be encouraging the industries to move away or at the very least, restricting their expansion. The High Park area housed race tracks in the early 1900s and City Hall housed shanty towns for new immigrants - do we see that anymore? So why is it that we keep allowing our industry to expand in our neighbourhood? And more importantly - polluting the air we breathe. There's no bigger mood killer at a summer BBQ then to have to move everyone inside because the smell of slaughter is too overpowering.

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