ABOUT 40 people on Saturday clambered around the steep hillsides that if Housing NSW gets its way will be turned into an 18-unit development.
Comments were made about how access could be gained from Davidson Street around private property along land set aside for highway bypass and down terrain the resembles a ski run .
Eurobodalla Shire Council has concerns about whether garbage trucks and other service and emergency service vehicles could negotiate this access.
Once around the corner the development of one and two-bedroom would stretch up another steep hillside to frontage on the Princes Highway.
Councillor Lindsay Brown questioned why the State Government was attempting a project that any private developer would fine too costly and challenging.
The shire council did however back in 2003 approve a 13-unit private development on the block at 192 Princes Highway that allegedly was sold to Housing NSW for $850,000.
Housing NSW under current legislation however does not development approval from the council and the comment period for neighbours who were notified of the development last month expired earlier this month after a two-week period.
How the State Government came to choose and acquire the land for the housing project is one of the key question being asked by opponents and those who visited the site on Saturday.
Saturday’s expedition took place after a meeting the night before at the Narooma Services Club called by State Member Andrew Constance to focus opposition against the proposed State Government development that is being funded under the Federal Government stimulus package.
A motion was passed unanimously by those present stated "That the Honourable Andrew Constance on behalf of many concerned residents of Narooma request that the NSW Parliament suspend the proposed development at 192 Princes Highway pending a full review of the proposal by State and local authorities in conjunctions with residents."
Mr Constance said he hoped to present the motion and a petition circulated by residents to the House yesterday although he had real concerns only national media attention of the particular folly and expense of the Narooma site would halt the project.
Similar stimulus package affordable housing projects in Batemans Bay were about to begin construction and engineering works on the Narooma site could begin anytime, he said.
Mr Constance had also made appeals directly to Federal Member Mike Kelly for him freeze the funding for the project.
Collecting more than 800 signatures for the petition is neighbour to the project and developer of the Parklands housing estate John Wallens.
Mr Wallens said the project did not meet the guidelines set forth in Housing NSW own website stating the community would be consulted and that the steep terrain meant the developments' residents would be isolated and further disadvantaged by the lack of access.