Just got home from work and checked my emails - this case has been adjourned until 25th April.
Will keep tabs on this and let you all know what's happening.
Am currently on holidays so sitting in a motel far from home with the family - thought I'd just drop the latest news in here for you all.
Appeal date is set for September - cult has put in its final grounds for overturning the decision to not allow cult to put a NarCONon in Yarramalong.
Cult is saying that Yarramalong will be different from East Warburton because it won't have a Withdraw step on site; all attendees will have been off drugs "for a period" before they turn up.
Also, Yarramalong will not be a "franchise" like East Warburton but I'm presuming run directly by ABLE Int (seems like NarCONon Int has been possibly disbanded and ABLE Int. is now running NarCONons directly per this submission.)
Cult has also submitted a new staff roster that has nearly a 1-1 staff-student ratio - they claim they won't need security staff now that they aren't doing Withdraws on site.
Somehow all of this is supposed to negate the horrible PR of NarCONon in Oz by previous and current incarnations of it.
The stuff submitted by cult isn't available on-line - it can only be accessed by going to the Wyong Council building in Wyong and looking at the dox. - something I plan to do once I get back to work. But, from what I've been told, it'll be shooting fish in a barrel to shoot this latest cult bs out of court.
But it seems like McSavage is incredibly desperate to get this NarCONon up and running if He's trying the above bs lines to show the "new and improved" "rehab" is soooo much whiter and brighter than the old.
Would love to know if this new "PR line" is mirrored at Milton, Ontario and Trout Run - anyone know?:confused2:
In the link from your post, I thought this was a key point. It seems to me that the greater burden is upon the church to stretch the allowed usage to permit a drug rehab facility. If it is true that the zoning laws do not include a definition for a rehab center, then this would be a very good time to address that deficiency. I'd also add that it would be a good time for all of Australia to update their local zoning laws for this potentiality:
'Under the Wyong LEP 1991 which was current at the time, and therefore the relevant Instrument, the proposed use can be defined as a "community facility" owing to the type of service being offered, and the mode by which that service is delivered. There is no specific definition for a drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre. A 'community facility', as defined within the LEP is a permissible use within both zones.''
This came up during the hearings in the last few days.
Apparently a definition of "house" includes a group dwelling or some similar wording and the Senior Commissioner accepted ABLE's request that the proposed NarCONon be included under that definition. I don't remember the exact argument but their barrister was all over it and sounded convincing and, even more important, the Senior Commissioner was visibly in agreement with what he said. This apparently had happened previous to the current hearings.
The problem is the laws are deliberately lax to allow real estate developers to increase their already obscene profits and continue to donate large amounts to the very politicians passing the same laws. These "donations" saw several politicians from the NSW State Parliament stand aside prior to the last election due to the cash that had been funnelled into their election campaigns courtesy of said developers, despite laws to the contrary.
The problem (for the cult) is that they were so sloppy AND tardy in putting together their proposals AND they kept changing them that their own hired professional consultants ended up looking like complete idiots in the courtroom and the cult's own arguments were easily contradicted by their OWN PROMO.
And then ....
Nigel Mannock introduced the idea of BEAGLES
Yes, NarCONon at Yarramalong (if it were to be allowed to go ahead) will have a Beagle on-site 24/7. Nigel assured us all that this is not a pet but a professional working dog and he has had experience with Beagles in the past and they are great dogs.
Almost breathlessly we were informed how this dog would be trained to find contraband so that the NarCONon facility would be protected from illicit substances and that two staff would be trained in handling said Beagle in addition to their other job/s. This announcement was done yesterday at the hearing and had not been mooted before ANYWHERE.
It's typical of the insane way the cult has handled this whole saga - it's a last-minute "handling" of objections raised that the cult should have fielded and solved long before this hearing.
And it's one of many snippets that make me think Drunken Maggot is micro-managing this from His Palace. Didn't He have a Beagle that wore a Sea Org. uniform and had to be saluted?
I wonder if it will also be trained to sniff out "Out-Ethics" and "CI?"
I suspect a second application can be made to council that addresses all of the issues pointed out in this judgment?
And why on earth do we have to rely on planning law and guidelines to overturn clinically unfounded drug rehabilitation practices.
Is there no legal regulation or guidelines for operation of drug rehab (asking no-one in particular - just putting it out there).
Am somewhat familiar with child care regs in WA, and they are very stringent. Seems to me that drug addicts are also vulnerable and in need of protection against unscrupulous operators.
Also notice it is ABLE documented on the appeal. Is this part of the new organisation of Narconon? Wondering if we would have previously expected the party to be Narconon International.
Some of the listed items could be appealed but some just can't - like the bush-fire plan. That's pretty un-appealable per the Senior Commissioner's findings. The traffic plan is another one - they would have to fess up the truth and that would open a whole can of worms that they've tried to cover up. They will have a LOT more traffic than they've told their consultants - and right there is why this application failed to be granted the appeal.
I'm not thinking of appeal, but the possibility they can apply back to Yarramalong council, while addressing all of the shortfalls.
Hopefully that is just not possible with thinks like traffic - that if they were being honest it could never get off the ground.
Thanks for your excellent reportage throughout Scooter!
They can put in another DA: in fact, I was told today that that is all that they can do as there is no legal mechanism for the cult to take this appeal any further.
But the appeal judgement makes it pretty plain that any future DA stands to fail on at least Fire and Sewerage issues as the Senior Commissioner left no wriggle room on either of those issues. so the only sensible option is to get another property and try on that.
But we are talking Demented Midget and His minions here so any insanity is possible.
Do you think the zoning restrictions would also be problematic?
Ready, willing and not ABLE to set up a drug, alcohol rehab centre at Yarramalong
Yarramalong Community Action Group spokesman Ron Lee said residents were ecstatic over the decision.
“It’s an early Christmas present for Yarramalong,’’ Mr Lee said.