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Mt Arapiles development plans 19-Oct-2010 At 4:04:57 PM wombly

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>People who are trying to popularise climbing in australia for their own financial gain are >utter scum

if it is built, it needs to generate a profit, which means a regular flow of visitors. If these can't be sourced from the existing user base, then you have a situation where the proprietors will advertise & popularise the activity, drawing more punters to the mount. Given that it is already a popular location, and under stress from the folks willing to sleep in the dirt and/or drive from somewhere more luxurious, then the environment/amenity of the area will suffer from such a development - unless current users are excluded. So from a personal self-interest point of view as a user that likes dirt with my muesli I only win with such a development if there's a large enough proportion of the existing user base that is willing to fork over the dough for a higher standard of accomodation, & based on my own experience there I don't see this being the case.