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The Age
25-05-2025
- Business
- The Age
The Sydney football club fighting plans for 200 apartments
A Sydney football club is fighting against a plan to build eight-storey apartment blocks overlooking its home ground, worried that an influx of neighbours will bring a barrage of noise complaints. Developer Platino Properties has lodged a planning proposal seeking permission to construct four buildings – two with eight storeys and two with six storeys – on industrial land next to Lambert Park, home of the APIA Leichhardt Football Club. The development is the latest example of rising tensions between locals and developers in the inner west, as established suburbs are set to get more high-density buildings under council's mass rezoning plan to deliver 30,000 new homes. APIA president Tony Raciti fears that once residents move into the new units, the club will become 'the next Luna Park' and that it will be flooded with complaints from neighbours. In 1995, the NSW Supreme Court restricted the operating hours of the Big Dipper rollercoaster after a group of neighbouring residents complained about noise. 'It's a sports facility used from 7am up to 10pm, and we make a lot of noise. We scream, shout, the referees blow whistles, floodlights would be penetrating into people's bedrooms,' he said. 'We aren't anti-housing. We want skyscrapers in Leichhardt. The more people that move here, the more registrations we get – [but this proposal] is just not compatible.' The developer wants to build 210 dwellings with retail space on the ground floor and extra public green space. The site is next to the light rail tracks and the GreenWay, and a short walk to the Marion stop. Currently, the site is occupied by a warehouse and car parking spaces.
Sydney Morning Herald
25-05-2025
- Business
- Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney football club fighting plans for 200 apartments
A Sydney football club is fighting against a plan to build eight-storey apartment blocks overlooking its home ground, worried that an influx of neighbours will bring a barrage of noise complaints. Developer Platino Properties has lodged a planning proposal seeking permission to construct four buildings – two with eight storeys and two with six storeys – on industrial land next to Lambert Park, home of the APIA Leichhardt Football Club. The development is the latest example of rising tensions between locals and developers in the inner west, as established suburbs are set to get more high-density buildings under council's mass rezoning plan to deliver 30,000 new homes. APIA president Tony Raciti fears that once residents move into the new units, the club will become 'the next Luna Park' and that it will be flooded with complaints from neighbours. In 1995, the NSW Supreme Court restricted the operating hours of the Big Dipper rollercoaster after a group of neighbouring residents complained about noise. 'It's a sports facility used from 7am up to 10pm, and we make a lot of noise. We scream, shout, the referees blow whistles, floodlights would be penetrating into people's bedrooms,' he said. 'We aren't anti-housing. We want skyscrapers in Leichhardt. The more people that move here, the more registrations we get – [but this proposal] is just not compatible.' The developer wants to build 210 dwellings with retail space on the ground floor and extra public green space. The site is next to the light rail tracks and the GreenWay, and a short walk to the Marion stop. Currently, the site is occupied by a warehouse and car parking spaces.
Forbes
06-05-2025
- General
- Forbes
Finding A Better Life: Beyond APIA Heritage Month
'Finding a better life' is one of the most common refrains in the composition of the immigrant story in this country. My family is no different — my father and mother immigrated to the United States in the late 1960s from Thailand so that the family they wanted to start and raise together could have a better life as far as education and social mobility. As an Asian American born, raised, and educated in the Midwest, I was afforded opportunities to explore my cultural identity, celebrate my own culture and those of others, and evolve into a multi-dimensional individual who sees how my life intersects with and contributes to the lives of others in enriching ways. Prior to my current 15 years at Santa Clara University overseeing our Center for Student Involvement, I spent the first decade of my career in higher education supporting, empowering, and advocating for BIPOC students — Asian Pacific Islander American (APIA) students in particular. I not only worked in multicultural student affairs at Northwestern University and Duke University, but I also volunteered for a non-profit organization called the Midwest Asian American Students Union (MAASU). A common thread that connected my work at Northwestern, Duke, and MAASU was traversing alongside APIA students on their own respective journeys to do the same thing I was able to do when I was in college. Through these interconnected experiences, I was able to broaden my network and deepen my skill set to help guide students in leveraging their life experiences and aspirations toward agency and activism, however they wanted to define that for themselves. That thread continues even though my roles and settings as an educator have changed. Learning about the history of our communities in this country, commemorating our multiple and shared identities, and accompanying students in their activist endeavors were paramount, no matter my title or institution. None of these means have changed — nor should they — as the ends remain the same today as they have over the past 25 years: to achieve inclusion, equality, and justice for all. This APIA Heritage Month comes as a bittersweet moment and at a critical nexus of both the history of the United States and the history of APIA individuals, families, and communities in this country. In this moment, the specter of past despicable movements such as the Chinese Exclusion Act and Japanese Internment Camps has sadly begun to descend on this nation again as identities and mere existences are questioned. APIA Heritage Month — or any other month honoring the heritage of the innumerable vibrant communities that provide the foundation of the U.S. — is simultaneously a time to reflect on our shared history and be proud of who we are and what makes us indispensable to American society today. That reflection often comes with painful memories of what used to be, yet also comes with the remembrance of how strength and unity help refresh the reality that this country is our home too, and, more importantly, a home we helped build and continue to make better. At Santa Clara University, APIA student organizations are hosting marquee programming, such as cultural shows that demonstrate an artful balance of recognizing the history of their respective cultural heritages with a proclamation of how their heritages are an organic piece of fabric in American society today. APIA student organizations achieve this through truthful yet heartwarming forms of storytelling. In addition to the vibrant cultural programming at Santa Clara University, students across campus are making meaningful efforts to connect with each other and our democracy through nonpartisan civic engagement. The university's work to make voter participation a defining part of campus life has been recognized since 2016, and remains an important method of creating a strong and more representative American democracy. Tedd Vanadilok with the student body president Ryan Rani inside the Mission Church. Nina Glick That goal of 'finding a better life' is common for anyone who calls the U.S. home, no matter where they or their family came from or when they arrived. As a nation, we are at a crossroads where we are striving to communally 'find a better life' for all of us. We are not there yet, of course. Will we ever get there? One thing that will keep us on track is to project our voices, speak for the voices of those who cannot speak for themselves, and amplify our voices in synergy for the common good. Registering to vote, going to the polls, and encouraging everyone around you to do the same is our civic duty to keep us moving in that direction. Exercising the right to vote and engaging in our democracy preserves the right to celebrate our culture — and reminds us of the importance of honoring our heritage in the American story. Santa Clara University is one of more than 1000 colleges and universities currently participating in the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge. Learn more about ALL IN and support our work here .
