Tonight’s council meeting will decide on Item 9.2 – subdivisions and the ‘vesting’ of 7 lots in Council. There is also the important consideration of – “To remove and replace outdated easements with a new drainage easement”. What all this means is that council is preparing for the sell off of numerous strips of land to surrounding owners. All well and good – if the sell off has been calculated to reap more dollars than it costs.
Over a year ago, it was revealed that in order to flog a strip of land, council had to update the drainage system and that this would be in the order of $40,000. The proceeds from the sale were declared not to come anywhere near this figure. Given this history, we can only speculate as to whether there really has been a full and in depth cost benefit analysis done? Of course, there are no figures contained in the Officer’s report to provide guidance, nor satisfactory justification. We therefore ask:
- How much will this cost ratepayers in terms of officers’ time; potential new works, etc?
- What is the anticipated revenue from these eventual sell offs?
- And the bottom line – has a cost benefit analysis been done?
Glen Eira Debates 
September 20, 2011 at 1:00 PM
Also, Glen Eira is going to be developing a walking plan for the City, in a small number of cases there is a possibility that a lane way here and there could be useful to this plan. So this should be a consideration before any lanes are sold.
September 21, 2011 at 11:44 PM
Anyway all proceeds from lanes being sold should be accumulated and out aside for more open space. Proper prices per square matre should be charged as well as it would seem that these “land grabs” made easy by council only make the liklehood of larger blocks and naturally larger developments everywhere on cheap land acquisition.