A quick note on tonight’s council meeting. Much, much, more to follow!
- Frogmore application for Jewish Care Aged Care Facility – refusal passed unanimously with both Esakoff and Delahunty declaring conflicts of interest
- Truganini Road application – permit
- Bent St – permit with conditions about protecting street trees
- North Road 6 storey application – Esakoff moved motion to lop off two storeys and reduce number of dwellings. Motion passed.
- Minister’s letter – officers to prepare another report on inconsistencies with VCAT decisions and follow up on resident claims regarding Wynne being amenable to structure plans and zones. This was suddenly a discussion only about COMMERCIAL ZONES!
- Lobo gagged from asking questions by Magee, Pilling, Lipshutz
- Magee taking on the mantle of chief council promoter!
Level of consistent and cogent argument remains appalling. Political expediency the winner!
Glen Eira Debates 
November 25, 2015 at 8:12 AM
The Myrtle Street parking issue discussion deserves inclusion in your listing.
This discussion was based on an Officer’s Report, formally requested by Councillors on 13/10/2015, on the recently implemented changes to parking in Myrtle Street (Resident outrage was reported in the Leader).
The truly mind boggling aspect of the Councillors request for a followup report, is that the request for feedback from residents is defined as being “That feedback be passively gathered from correspondence via Councillors or directly through the current feedback channels available to residents”.
Another graphic illustration of how deficient Glen Eira’s consultative processes and practices are.
So folks take heed, after you have spent considerable time and effort presenting your case and alternative solutions to Councillors, who pay more attention to the Administration than you, you then have to continue to provide feedback because if you don’t, on the odd chance that there will be “passive” followup, Council will give itself another pat on the back.
November 25, 2015 at 8:53 AM
Sham community consultations are the norm in Glen Eira. Humour the community/ residents in providing an opportunity for their voices to be heard and then ignore them! No matter how viable the options snd ideas the community puts forward, they’re ignored. The council officers and admin, of course, know better. So little respect is shown for the expertise and knowledge in the community. What is more, we as the community, live and use this space every day and know how it functions and can be optimised. The council assumption is that we are anti- change. Most of us are not. We are happy for enhancements to our environment not for our environment to be fast tracked to ghetto status.
November 25, 2015 at 2:57 PM
As a member of council member stated in a public meeting on planning 16/11/2015
I don’t work for you (The rate payers) I work for the council and we make the decisions not you. We will decide whats best. You can just feel the love and understanding with comments like that!!
November 26, 2015 at 6:26 AM
Council should be ashamed that they allowed the developer the upper hand in the 9 storey proposal for Centre Rd by not complying with the regulations. It now goes directly to VCAT due to incompetence of council and administration. What a cop out. I have to agree that this get Councillor do not represent the residents. The question is then who do they represent? Must be the developers then?