The community action group set up to combat the proposed orbital road will host an old-time town meeting on Sunday.
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The Port Macquarie Better Orbital Options Alliance says there is rising community concern about Port Macquarie-Hastings Council's controversial project.
Alliance convenor Grant Mitchell says people worried about the orbital road proposal will get the chance to send a direct message of concern to the council.
"The town meeting has been called for Sunday afternoon," Mr Mitchell said.
"This meeting will be used to examine all aspects of the orbital road proposal from the residents' point of view, and deliver that point of view very bluntly to the council.
"The Alliance felt it was time the council listened to the majority, who are concerned and alarmed about the great uncertainties and confusions of this proposal and the damage it could do."
He said the council had flatly ignored addresses at its meetings, by residents worried about the lack of transparency; unexplained costs and other questionable procedures involved in the road proposal.
A rescission motion was put to the July council meeting but was lost. That decision saw council move forward with its plans to build a strategic business case for the controversial road.
Residents have held silent protests at several council meetings over the past six months, with many holding placards warning that pushing ahead with the orbital road was the wrong decision.
Mr Mitchell said only the mayor and two councillors had been prepared to listen to the residents' concerns and they had been forcefully over-ruled by the other six as though we had not spoken.
"The Alliance includes resident groups - Sanctuary Springs-Greenmeadows-Dahlsford Village; Fernhill Road; Lake Innes; and Lady Nelson Drive; and community groups Port Macquarie Race Club; St Agnes Catholic Parish; Revive Lake Cathie; St Columba Schools and Hastings Regional Shooting Complex; and has been approached by other community organisations to express concern and support.
"Speakers at the meeting will each detail a specific area of concern; including the questionable viability of the proposal and its real cost to ratepayers; resumption of unknown hundreds of homes; major threats to koala habitat; doubtful forward financial planning; and the lack of transparency; or realistic consultation and effective community engagement; loss of sporting facilities, including the iconic Port Macquarie Race Course; and the adjoining Hastings Regional Shooting Complex.
"There will be a Q and A type question session from the audience," he said.
"Most of all, we are not convinced we need this project; or that it will solve Port Macquarie's road traffic problems.
"We don't see any convincing evidence to demonstrate this.
"This will not be a soapbox for councillors or politicians," Mr Mitchell said.
"Councillors may attend as ordinary citizens, if they wish, but they will not be acknowledged or heard. We have already heard most of them, several times; and we really don't like what we've heard.
"Now it's our turn to be heard, and their turn to listen - just for a change."
The town meeting will be held next Sunday, September 8, at the Restaurant in the Livermore Building at the Port Macquarie Race Course, from 2pm.
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