THANK YOU for your fantastic support of our three SRB events over the last week or so. It was wonderful to see so many of you at the Lauderdale and South Arm Community Forums and the Rally in City Hall on Tuesday.

Thanks, too for all your generous donations, purchases, new memberships and renewals - what a difference they will make! After the submission period closes, there will be Hearings and the more money we can raise, the more expert witnesses we can bring forward. Paypal donations have started to come in through the website. This is very encouraging.

Welcome to all who have joined SRB or signed up in recent days to receive SRB emails. Here is an update on the current situation:

- we still have 18 days until the 4.30pm deadline on April 6th for submissions to reach the RPDC.
Contact details for the RPDC are at http://www.rpdc.tas.gov.au/poss/lauderdale_quay/whats_new
- our experts are working away, studying their sections of the DIIS and the appendices. Some have already completed their submissions and sent them through for inclusion in the SRB submission.
- we have a new section on the SRB website at http://www.saveralphsbay.org/submissions/submIndex.htm to help you plan a submission. This is where you can find arguments against the development and some key quotes from the DIIS. This evolving section is very much a work in progress, so send us more great quotes as you find them in the DIIS, indicating which section they should go in, and the exact page the quote comes from.

WHAT CAN YOU DO TO HELP SAVE RALPHS BAY?

Pick something that suits you - there are plenty of ways to help!

* Read the Executive Summary of the DIIS - it’s only 28 pages of text and a few pages of colour illustrations. Click http://www.ralphsbay.net.au/DIIS.asp for the Executive Summary, but be warned, it may take a few minutes to download even on Broadband.
* Read the DIIS itself which is “only” 415 pages long. Click http://www.ralphsbay.net.au/DIIS.asp for the DIIS, which is a smaller file size and downloads fast.
* If you’re an expert, by all means read your section/s of the appendices (over 6000 pages in total, so not for the general reader!). Contact us if you can offer expert input, even if you won’t be able to put your name to it.
* Send in your favourite short quotes from the DIIS to illustrate what madness the canal estate proposal really is.  Don’t forget the page number.

*** WRITE a submission, and deliver, mail or email it to the RPDC by 4.30pm on April 6th. It doesn’t have to be long and you don’t need to be an expert. You can just say how the development would affect you and your family.*** Contact details for the RPDC are at http://www.rpdc.tas.gov.au/poss/lauderdale_quay/whats_new

* Forward this email to your friends and encourage them to sign in to receive these emailed updates from http://www.saveralphsbay.org
* Join SRB at http://www.saveralphsbay.org if not yet a member.
* Send us a donation to help fund expert witnesses. This can be done electronically at http://srb.pmhclients.com/index.php/common/donate/ or by snail mail to PO Box 161, Rokeby, Tas. 7019
* Put a Save Ralphs Bay sticker on your car.
* Keep talking about the bay.
* Letters to the Editor and to politicians are always worthwhile.

Thank you for all your help and support - it is all very much appreciated.
With your help we WILL win the battle to save Ralphs Bay!

Save Ralphs Bay Inc