I REFER to the article in the CWD on September 14 promoting agriculturally-related products to China as a prelude to the possible free trade agreement.
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Assuming there is support for business promotion to Asia, why then would Orange City Council continue to be at odds with state and federal government by proposing to rezone the land around the Orange airport to industrial, in a prime agricultural area, and in the water catchment for Orange residents?
It simply does not make sense when there is less productive land in other areas surrounding Orange.
Better still, why does the council not consolidate all the significant areas of vacant industrially-zoned land existing already within the five industrially-designated areas within Orange.
As Orange ratepayers and residents, are we so complacent, and so assured of our water and food supply, that we can afford to allow some of the most productive prime agricultural land in New South Wales, and within the Orange drinking water catchment, to be destroyed forever with enormous lumps of concrete built on it?.
Sally Playfair, Orange