Was Armadale council bullied into the parking option decision by a local resident?

Is this ridiculous council parking decision the result of bullying by a vociferous, zealous resident of Croydon Road?

Possibly …
An interesting site run by a Croydon Road resident, (who really must have a HUGE down on Linton Reynolds since he has even gone to the extreme of purchasing his dot com web address!) mentions amongst many other Armadale council attacks, the traffic chaos during Araluen festivals.

ref:http://www.lintonreynolds.com/gpage8.html

“Traffic Chaos
Council officers estimate almost a three fold increase to 5000 vehicles/day along Croyden Rd plus an additional 5000/day in the valley during the regular Araluen Spring Festival, Chilli festivals and other Botanical Park event, will mean traffic jams, continuous noise, widened roads, & great loss of amenity for all. "

A simple calculation therefore shows that the current traffic along Croyden Rd is a third of that… averaging about one car a minute?... Wow! you live on a very quiet main road and I don’t blame you for trying to keep it like that BUT there are other social points to consider.
Over the years I have attended many of the excellently managed festivals at Araluen. These ‘regular’ festivals occur ONCE A YEAR! and they would certainly be a great loss of amenity for the thousands of Perth residents and their families who attend. You make it sound as if they happen every week!... Festival traffic has always been well supervised, directed and organised. Emergency services can always get through and the one way system introduced at the annual Chilli festival works very well.
Yes there is some noise and possible inconvenience to the hundred or so residents of Croyden Rd in their large, set back houses… But THOUANDS of people and their families attend and enjoy these annual weekend festivals!!... I only wish that I was lucky enough to live within walking distance of Araluen for 350 festival free days a year!!.. Maybe when they are on all the residents of Croyden Rd should be given a free family ticket to encourage them to attend and support?
This same resident is campaigning against the lot69 development further up the valley which may or may not be a good cause. My cause is Araluen. Has he thought what will happen if Araluen ‘happens’ to be re-zoned due to financial collapse, because of the removal of festival revenue, because of the new parking restrictions being imposed by what he alleges to be a ‘corrupt’ Armadale council?? (read West Australian article above)
Araluen is absolutely prime real estate, a developers dream for the council to sell that would become a millionaires haven and Perth would be without two of its’ best festivals and its' best Southern Park.