Councillor Motion - No Change to Urban Growth Boundary

 

This is taken from JIM CHILD'S Blog 

At next Tuesday night's council meeting Cr Len Cox will move that Council:
1. Supports the retention of the Urban Growth Boundary without amendment.

2. Authorises officers to write to the Minister for Planning and all submitters advising them of this position.

My Comment:

Members of the public can make submissions to this item, and also make a request to be heard.

I would like to hear from the Officers outlining what the costly analysis has found so far in regards to extending the UGB. Why no Officer report in regards to this motion?

This item is another example of Council's new meeting procedure which forewarns the public of pending Councillor motions and gives the public and the Council Officers an opportunity to comment.

Christine Fyffe MP Responds

Hi Mario,

Yes I know about this and I am disappointed because there is a genuine need for more housing so that local young people and those who wish to move of rural properties can continue to live in the area they love.

As you are well aware I am not in favour of sprawling suburbia on fertile rural land and neither am I in favour of development for developments sake where there is no existing infrastructure.

However we are a democracy and  the councillors were elected by the

residents of the shire to administer council operations and services including the planning scheme.

 Kind regards,

Christine Fyffe MP

Deputy Speaker Legislative Assembly,

Member for Evelyn

143 Main Street,

Lilydale,

3140

Tel. 9735 3208, Fax 9735 3697, e-mail christine.fyffe@parliament.vic.gov.au

 COMMENT: Thanks for your comments

JIM CHILD WRITES

At next Tuesday night's council meeting (13/12)Councillor Motions -
Cr Cox will move that Council:

1. Supports the retention of the Urban Growth Boundary without amendment.

2. Authorises officers to write to the Minister for Planning and all submitters advising them of this position.

COMMENT:  by Mario Galteri

The people of COLDSTREAM have "voted" to have the UGB expanded around Coldstream by an official shire survey conducted by Cr Jeanette McRae.  

Is Cr Cox just going to ignore this and other surveys? (such as one by Christine Fyffe MP and our own initial survey)

Will Cr McRae support her own scientific survey?

The shire has engaged an external company to look at the UGB in the whole of the shire.  The report is almost finished.  Does Cr Cox suggest that we just pay for the work done and tear up the report?  More waste of time and money!

The council officers have also spent a lot of time looking at this issue.  I can see no reason for this to come to a COMPLETE STOP!

If you feel the same way please contact Jeanette McRae or your ward councilor.

 

The fat lady has not sung yet!

Comment:  It's far from over!

Raised eyebrows over new bylaws for Yarra Ranges

IF YOU plan on owning a goose, singing in public or being a car collector, you might find yourself in trouble with Yarra Ranges Council.

The council has just released a 77-page document for public comment on its proposed local laws.

And the proposed bylaws have been raising some eyebrows.
A person is allowed to own two guinea pigs, two ferrets and two domestic turtles or tortoises.

Read the rest here from the LEADER

COMMENT: This is a DRAFT document and needs tweaking.  Would you like your neighbour keeping a rooster? or 20 geese?  Me thinks not!

To me the draft looks like a list of complaints the Shire has had to deal with over the past decade and has put them down on paper.

As I said, "it's a good start".