Politicians sometimes make the most outlandish statement/s

The member for Cairns Gavin King was talking to talk-back host John McKenzie recently and was discussing the housing and accommodation situation in Cairns.
As most residents have said in the past we DON'T want to be another Gold Coast but it would appear that the member for Cairns could be looking at changing that by having high rise residential living in the CBD rather than having a sprawling residential housing on the southern area of Cairns.
One has to ask "where are these units going to be built?"
The flight path for landing approach on runway 33 virtually has a flight path over the city so are we going to play games and put lives at stake or better still just forget the idea which is a better solution for all and continue with the growth on the southern side of Cairns.
I have tracked the approach path for runway 33 below so you can see for yourself that there is no safe room for units going up within the CBD:

This is the virtual flight path for the approach to runway 33.

 I have also included an edited  discussion the Member for Cairns had said on that day: in which he says that "many hundreds of thousands" of people will be moving to Cairns over the next 6 months to 5 years or so, which led John McKenzie stating "really".
Why do politicians make these types of statements is beyond comprehension.
Listen to the edited conversation from the talk-back program.