Below is an email that was sent by council to all Trade Associations in Glen Eira. Nothing wrong with this except:
1. Why aren’t residents included since the blurb below speaks of the ‘community’s views’?
2. Why is this the first we hear of council’s plans for A Place Making Action Plan?
We do not wish to diminish the importance of local business. However, we do not believe that traders should get precedence over the general community on something as important as planning and residential amenity. Furthermore, very little reporting of such meetings ever makes it into the public domain. It would appear that traders very definitely are at an ‘advantage’ in Glen Eira compared to the ordinary run of the mill resident!
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Local Economy and Place Making Action Plan – Traders Associations Consultation
Glen Eira City Council warmly invites you to participate in a discussion to help shape the development of a new Local Economy and Place Making Action Plan for our municipality.
As with Greater Melbourne, Glen Eira is currently experiencing a time of significant change, with transport upgrades, population expansion, shifting land use and changes to the way people work and do business. These significant, externally driven changes present both challenges and opportunities with regards to the economic and social viability of our municipality.
As a Traders Association you play a vital role in capturing and representing the views of the traders in your centre. We would like your input into what would make Glen Eira an even better place to work and do business, and how this could be achieved.
This is an exciting opportunity for you to help us ensure the Action Plan is informed by the community’s views and vision regarding developing our local economy. (our emphases). We really hope you are able to make it and contribute to this important conversation.
Date: Wednesday 27 February 2019
Time: 6:30pm for 7pm start. Concludes at 8.30pm (includes light refreshments on arrival)
Where: Glen Eira Town Hall, Caulfield Cup Room
RSVP: cityfutures@gleneira.vic.gov.au by Wednesday 20 February
Background information
- Activity Centre, Housing and Local Economy (ACHLE) Strategy
- Glen Eira Council and Community Plan 2017-2021
| Regards
Alex Francis-Yu City Futures PO Box 42 Caulfield South VIC 3162 |
Glen Eira Debates 
February 16, 2019 at 10:20 AM
Business wants people. That means more apartments. Traffic and parking they can worry about later. Get ready for big big changes to zoning and height limits that will dwarf what’s there now.
February 16, 2019 at 12:28 PM
Most busness owners and landlords and developers with exceptions will not be living in Glen Eira, but to some extent want control to whats happenes here, their desires can be unrealistic and sometimes their greed can also be unrealist. Councils planners should aware of this and contained their wants to what is sustainable and what is in keeping to the local amenityand of peaceful living, this is why we have planning laws.
At the East Pillage developemnt the presentation by council planners just about made vomit as they had swallowed the Liberal Partys rant of “jobs & growth” verbatum and repeated it ad nauseam. This wasn’t planning, this was polictical ideaology hiding behind young faces spewing out doctrine like robots.
I suspect these young just out of collage planners with their polished jargon we see around the consultation process these days have all been educated under the Howard/Abbott/Turnbull/Morrison (did I miss anyone here) eira of doctrine greed is good’ and all wealth generated no matter how and at what cost is also good.
Let’s hope this jugganaut of uglyess sinks in it own sea of unsustainable slime. Of course us ratepayer will be left to pay the clean-up bill for these decades of rorts and asset stripping and plundering.
February 19, 2019 at 9:00 AM
Nothing suspicious about what is being proposed. This is clearly aimed at traders who have a different set of goals and challenges to residents.
Nothing immoral about Council seeking to target various stakeholders.
Last year they did one for all residents under the name of “tell us about your shopping strip”
And there’s an email and phone number always available if other residents have gripes they want to express.
But to be sensationalist and claim traders are getting precedence over residents is outright wrong. Traders have had to experience changing economic climate and face many of the same challenges as residents but also unique challenges that affect their business.
February 19, 2019 at 11:21 AM
I’m puzzled why you make the claim that traders getting precedence is “outright wrong”. They are being asked first about matters that affect us all.
February 19, 2019 at 6:27 PM
Convenient how you skip the part of my reply where I wrote ALL PEOPLE (which includes residents) were asked a while back as part of “tell us about your shopping strip” and who said there will be no more consultation after this one? Why jump and assume once traders are asked nobody else will.
February 20, 2019 at 11:19 AM
I responded to an inflammatory comment [“outright wrong”] by “Michael” that was not substantiated by publicly available information. The latest exercise raises different questions and seeks different responses than “tell us about your shopping strip” and it targets traders. Whether that is the first of several or the only consultation is unknown, but clearly they have precedence using the conventional meaning of the word eg priority in order.