Detailed reports on tonight’s council meeting will follow in the days ahead. However, readers should note the following outcomes:

  • The Kornhauser application accepted unanimously and not one single word stated about student accommodation/shared housing. Lobo even declared at one point that ‘rabbis would love’ him now!
  • The so called greens see nothing wrong with the Gordon St 8 storey 55 unit development because it’s close to transport and will ‘enliven’ the area. Lobo/Magee motion to refuse got up by 5 votes to 4. Voting against refusal – Lipshutz; Delahunty, Sounness and Pilling
  • The most important items (ie. proposed amendments for large lot sizes and the revisiting the C87) took about 10 minutes in total! Passed unanimously. Our view is another ‘victory’ for developers and deceiving the public.
  • A sporting allocation policy that changes nothing and still cedes all control to unelected officers
  • Audit committee report nothing more than self-congratulations and how wonderful Gibbs and McLean are.
  • CCTV funding from government refused. Voting to accept – Hyams, Esakoff, Okotel.
  • Many public questions demanded that councillors provide INDIVIDUAL answers to specific queries – in other words, tell residents of their views and why they voted or felt the way they did. No councillor had the guts to address the questions and state what their actual views were. Instead it was all about ‘councils’ views.