The Brisbane Baylands is not a load of potential, it is a fetid swamp that has remained undeveloped because it is a flood prone wasteland well apart from all ne

The Brisbane Baylands is not a load of potential, it is a fetid swamp that has remained undeveloped because it is a flood prone wasteland well apart from all nearby inhabited areas. The Brisbane Baylands have remained undeveloped since the gold rush for very solid reasons. Simply adding one or two stories to permitted development in downtowns in nearby areas would open up large volumes for more development, but because of the depraved and irrational state of land use planning a fetid swamp is considered vastly more desirable than an added story in an existing and already developed downtown with transit access and all the rest. Zoom out and look at the big picture of bay area land use and this idea that the Brisbane Baylands is an absolutely critical development falls away.