Medals for the modest - CFA Board member John Peberdy, back left, with Coldstream volunteers George Taylor and David Dent, and regional operations officer Gavin Wright, and, front, Dave Timms, John Fe | Upper Yarra Mail | Star News Group Local community news
Well done guys
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Tuesday, December 06, 2011
Saturday, December 03, 2011
Politicians must slash the waste
- Neil Mitchell
- From: Herald Sun
- November 30, 2011
The Yarra Ranges Shire has released for public comment a massive document of draft provisions for local laws. But don't worry about the waste, look at the fiddling. Propositions seriously put forward include bans on owning a goose or a pea fowl, growing nature strip grass higher than 20cm, feeding birds, playing games on council land, throwing stones into lakes, filming in a public street, smoking on council land and riding a skateboard within a municipal building.
Terrific, isn't it? Now all they have to do is hire an army of goose-checking, grass-measuring, bird-tracking council officers who can snatch a speeding skateboard and smell smoke at 50m.
Then, the rest of us have to give the council the money to pay them. At all levels, that's how it works.
link to article
weather statistics for Coldstream Estate.
Averages\Extremes for the month of November
2011
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Average temperature =
17.4°C
Average
humidity = 72%
Average
dewpoint = 11.7°C
Average
barometer = 1013.0 hPa
Average
windspeed = 1.8 km/h
Average
gustspeed = 3.9 km/h
Average
direction = 75° (ENE)
Rainfall for
month = 149.4 mm
November
Average = 71 mm
Rainfall for
year = 1101.8 mm
Yearly
Average = 772 mm
Maximum rain per minute = 1.4 mm on day 09 at
time 20:13
Maximum temperature =
33.4°C on day 18 at time 15:52
Minimum temperature =
5.2°C on day 30 at time 03:32
Maximum
humidity = 98% on day 04 at time
07:11
Minimum
humidity = 28% on day 05 at time
14:06
Maximum dewpoint
= 19.2°C on day 09 at time 13:12
Minimum
dewpoint = 3.9°C on day 30 at time
3:30
Maximum
pressure = 1025.9 hPa on day 24 at
time 09:11
Minimum
pressure = 997.4 hPa on day 29 at
time 02:34
Maximum
windspeed = 29.6 kmh from 203°(SSW) on day
18 at time 18:39
Maximum gust
speed = 46.3 km/h from 203°(SSW) on day 18 at
time 18:40
Maximum heat index
= 33.8°C on day 18 at time 15:24
Avg daily max temp :24.7°C
Avg daily min temp :11.1°C
Total windrun = 1317.1km
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Daily rain totals
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03.2 mm on day 1
01.2 mm on day 2
01.6 mm on day 3
16.2 mm on day 7
00.6 mm on day 8
30.0 mm on day 9
01.6 mm on day 13
12.8 mm on day 15
07.2 mm on day 18
13.2 mm on day 19
13.6 mm on day 25
38.8 mm on day 26
06.6 mm on day 29
02.4 mm on day 30
Cheers,
Robert Bethell
Thursday, December 01, 2011
The Nanny Ranges
By Kath Gannaway
1st December 2011 03:20:32 PM
Under the General Provision Local Laws, they would need a permit also to fly a model aeroplane, conduct or celebrate a wedding or have an alcoholic drink on council land.
Prohibited would be swimming, paddling or wading in a ‘body of water’ not prescribed for that purpose!
Under the proposed law on camping - aimed at giving council powers to eject itinerant workers who set up camp, clothes lines and all, at places such as Coronation Park in Healesville and Lillydale Lake, sleeping, resting or sojourning in a car in a public place, such as the side of the road, would also be outlawed.
Yarra Ranges Council has this week embarked on the first stage of consultation in relation to the consolidation of established local laws, including scare gun control, streets and road, open air burning, animal control and consumption of liquor in public places with additional existing and new laws which will cover, under numerous by-laws, 25 behaviours and activities residents, or visitors, may, or may not engage in.
Council’s manager Buiilding, Health and Local Laws, David Clarkson, was keen to point out that the document is a draft… and council is very keen for people to have their say on what is proposed under the numerous by-laws.
Mr Clarkson explained that the aim is to consolidate all the local laws to reduce the burden of separate review processes each time a law reaches its ‘use-by date’ and to increase the transparency of local laws.
Many of the new laws require a permit, but how much those permits will be is yet to be decided.
“There will probably be some new things that require permits, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing, in the sense that it gives us control to allow people to do things without it being prohibited, but it also covers all behaviours that may be happening at the moment that we don’t have controls for,” Mr Clarkson said.
Mr Clarkson rejected the suggestion the Council is ‘nannying’ and that laws may have unintended consequences for residents.
“I don’t know that we are looking for a lot of prohibition in this,” he said. “We’re looking for ability to put in codes of practice, guidelines, as to how these things can be managed.”
He said council was responding to community driven concerns, and said it may be that there would be certain local laws for particular communities.
The Council currently has a team of 12 working in compliance across the shire, including animal management and parking.
“Most of our work in local laws is reactive… we respond to complaints,”
Mr Clarkson said.
In response to whether the council has sufficient by-laws officers to police it’s current, or proposed by-laws.
“Do I think we could have everyone of these controlled every day… no!” he said.
The draft General Provisions Local Law 2010 will be open for submissions until the end of the year.
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