Clive Bibby The Parata report covering the East Coast Land Use Inquiry is due on May 12 now after a 12-day extension 'due to the number and substance of submissions'. The findings will no doubt make some people feel very uncomfortable. And so they should. Yet in spite of likely recommendations for change to the way we do things, our council will probably ignore the opportunity to restructure our whole 'modus operandi'. You don't have to be someone who lives at the coalface of the recent cyclone destruction to realise what needs to happen in order to avoid the consequences of these destructive weather events in the future.

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