November 15, 2014
Never The Zones – Or So We’re Told!
Posted by gleneira under Councillor Performance, GE Governance, GE Planning, GE Service Performance[4] Comments
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November 15, 2014 at 4:43 PM
Wow 2000 will get ya at least 60 units. Bet yas Newton’s rubbing his hands in glee waiting for 60 lots of rates so he can spend it all on more rubbish and his lackeys.
November 15, 2014 at 7:28 PM
question on average how much rates would each of these units pay? I know they have to organise there own rubbish collection
November 15, 2014 at 8:01 PM
“yes” gesac will need a 25 mill refurbish in a few years time
November 16, 2014 at 1:36 PM
The Planning Zone System is broken. It used to be contiguous (adjacent), separate purposes, easy to understand and implement with strict controls. Now it’s all a mish mash of purposes. You can have a business at home, or a home in office block, or reside in a food manufacturing outfit. Everything is flexible. Road transport expanded, and public transport neglected. How did that happen?
If you examine the ‘Reformed zones for Victoria’ and its history, you can see a direct lineage from Hamer 1981, Kennett 1995 to now. Melbourne 2030 was a continuation of that process with an attempt to restrict the Green Wedges growth and structure the planning process, with clearly mixed success, because of VCAT.
An example of the confusion is the Mixed Use Zone: “The likely application of the Mixed Use Zone is in areas with a mix of residential and non-residential development; in local neighbourhood centres undergoing renewal and around train stations, where appropriate.” All Glen Eira’s Local Activity Centres (LAC) and some Neighbourhood Activity Centres (NAC) could fit into that description. Instead we got all NACs as GRZ with 4 storeys. The LACs became NRZ with 2 storeys, but if a 3 storey is already there, the application for a further 3 storey will probably be approved by VCAT. And if it is a large parcel of land in NRZ it can still have 3 or 4 storeys as long as it passes the ResCode, which is more fundamental to VCAT then Glen Eira Planning Scheme.