Brisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner has told developers his council will review the low-to-medium density residential zone in a bid to facilitate higher-density projects.LoadingAt a Queensland Property Council lunch on Wednesday, Schrinner said the review was “about delivering more homes sooner, and where they’re needed most”.“We’re going to focus on areas with existing infrastructure – close to public transport, shops, schools, and jobs – where modest, well-designed increases in housing density can have the greatest impact,” he said.Queensland Property Council executive director Jess Caire welcomed the move, saying “Brisbane’s low-to-medium density residential zone covers 14 per cent of Brisbane but in 2023 only 445 new dwellings were delivered in these areas”.Meanwhile, Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie told parliament the state government had approved 1631 new housing lots in the Greater Flagstone Priority Development Area, and intended to fast-track another 3700 lots at North Harbour through a PDA.The area covered by the North Harbour PDA has yet to be made public.Latest postsLatest postsPresident Donald Trump clashed with his South African counterpart over claims of a genocide of white Afrikaner farmers and ranted extensively about the American media, in another extraordinary and tense Oval Office meeting with a foreign leader.Trump dimmed the lights and played a video purporting to back up his assertions about the state-sanctioned mass murder of Afrikaners, the white ethnic minority that ruled South Africa during apartheid, as the country’s president Cyril Ramaphosa was made to watch.US President Donald Trump met South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office.Credit: APTrump mentioned Australia several times during the exchange, claiming both Australia and the US were being flooded with white South African farmers trying to flee. Dozens arrived in the US last week after the Trump administration fast-tracked their approval as refugees.“You take a look at Australia, they’re being inundated, and we’re being inundated with people that want to get out,” Trump said. “This is a very serious situation and … if we had a real press, this would be exposed.”Trump held up printouts of articles about white farmers who he said had been the victims of farm attacks, including robbery, land dispossession and murder. Gang violence is rife in South Africa, although as Ramaphosa and other officials pointed out during the Oval Office meeting, many victims are black.The tense exchange between the two leaders did not rise to a shouting match, but represented the most contentious Oval Office meeting since Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance ambushed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in late February.Read more here.Two of the three wind farm projects halted by Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie in January have now been approved, and a decision on the third is imminent.LoadingAfter ordering the projects be placed under greater scrutiny, Bleijie recently allowed the applications to proceed to a decision. His department gave the green light to the Bungaban and Wongalee wind farms, and will soon decide the Theodore project.Bleijie recently told parliament the LNP honoured an election commitment by making wind farms impact assessable, requiring mandatory consultation and third-party appeal rights, after Labor tried to force projects on regional communities “from their concrete jungle offices here in Brisbane”.“We updated the wind farm code, one of the weakest planning policies which allowed for wind farm proponents to ride roughshod over regional communities,” Bleijie said.“We now make sure that: any application will not result in any loss of prime agricultural land and put the people and the environment first; that workers’ accommodation does not impact on the communities’ housing market where rental vacancies are extremely low; that construction impacts on local infrastructure are mitigated or, if unable to be mitigated, remediated; and the decommissioning of wind farms becomes the sole responsibility of the wind farm operator and guaranteed through bonds or financial guarantees, no longer leaving private landowners at risk.” A man has been killed after a trailer rolled down a hill and pinned him to a lamp post in the Gold Coast hinterland yesterday afternoon.Police were called to Bushmead Street, in Nerang, shortly after midday and found the 48-year-old suffering from significant internal injuries.Paramedics treated the man, but he died at the scene.Police have launched an investigation into the circumstances leading up to his death. Advertisement Brisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner has told developers his council will review the low-to-medium density residential zone in a bid to facilitate higher-density projects.LoadingAt a Queensland Property Council lunch on Wednesday, Schrinner said the review was “about delivering more homes sooner, and where they’re needed most”.“We’re going to focus on areas with existing infrastructure – close to public transport, shops, schools, and jobs – where modest, well-designed increases in housing density can have the greatest impact,” he said.Queensland Property Council executive director Jess Caire welcomed the move, saying “Brisbane’s low-to-medium density residential zone covers 14 per cent of Brisbane but in 2023 only 445 new dwellings were delivered in these areas”.Meanwhile, Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie told parliament the state government had approved 1631 new housing lots in the Greater Flagstone Priority Development Area, and intended to fast-track another 3700 lots at North Harbour through a PDA.The area covered by the North Harbour PDA has yet to be made public.Another mostly sunny day with a comfortable top temperature in the mid-20s is the forecast for the River City today, with much the same predicted all the way into this weekend.Here’s the seven-day outlook:Here’s what’s making news further afield this morning:Opposition Leader Sussan Ley is remaking the Liberal Party, which could deliver a seismic shift from old Coalition policies.Former Australian tennis star Jelena Dokic has confirmed her controversial father, Damir, has died.A secretive investigation into disgraced soldier Ben Roberts-Smith has uncovered damning fresh evidence as well as video of him drinking from a prosthetic leg, which he denied under oath.An online post about a death cap mushroom sighting was accessed on a computer seized from Erin Patterson’s home, a court has heard.Australians in or facing retirement are in for a nasty surprise when it comes to the new cost of aged care being rolled out from July 1.In another extraordinary Oval Office confrontation, US President Donald Trump showed his South African counterpart a video alleging the state-sanctioned murder of white farmers, and said they were fleeing to Australia.Michele Bullock and the Reserve Bank are living in highly uncertain times – mostly due to one man.Credit: Marija ErcegovacBy the Reserve Bank’s own words, Trump is more of a threat to the global and domestic economy than the COVID pandemic and the global financial crisis combined. Advertisement Good morning, and welcome to Brisbane Times’ live news coverage for Thursday, May 22. Today we can expect a mostly sunny day and a top temperature of 26 degrees.In this morning’s local headlines:The Triffid live music venue has forced the redesign of a $1.5 billion tower development at Newstead after it took the developers and Brisbane City Council to court.One of Brisbane’s leading psychiatric hospitals has entered voluntary administration amid a funding crisis that threatens the viability of private hospitals nationwide.Forensic teams and other police descended on the home in Gin Gin after disappearance of Pheobe Bishop.Credit: Queensland Police and Nine News Police are now unsure whether a 17-year-old girl who reportedly vanished after being dropped off in Bundaberg for a flight ever made it to the airport.Australian cities are building up. But in today’s Perspective column, Courtney Kruk questions whether developers are designing spaces people actually want to live in.One of the city’s most cherished casual restaurants, Red Hook, will flip its last burger patty next month after announcing its imminent closure on social media.Red Hook runs a busy weekday lunch trade, with queues for takeaway sometimes snaking down Gresham Lane.Credit: Markus RavikSkip making dinner and instead savour delicious street food as night-market season returns to Brisbane. And there’s one near you.In sport, Maroons superstar Kalyn Ponga is adamant the concussion woes that threatened his career are behind him, and he harbours no fears of stepping back into the State of Origin furnace as the state’s number one fullback.And one of Australia’s most influential players, Harry Wilson, has revealed the changes he’s made to avoid a repeat of his injury curse as he prepares to return to Super Rugby action.