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overheard in tech central: 'the bar-owner is so charismatic, in another life he could have sold mid-market b2b saas'

This was a wonderful day for renters, future home buyers and everyone who cares about housing affordability. Inner West Council approves plans for 30,000 new homes. And the NSW Liberal Party reverses its housing policy to be "unashamedly YIMBY". Hooray!

The primary motion has 8 in support, 7 against. The Motion passes and absolute chaos breaks out

I'm invoking it - I think it's loathsome and rancid to petition to defer change that would add substantial housing where people want to live and work under the guise of an abundance of concern for public and social housing.

One person behind me keeps jeering whenever anyone suggests that there was an extensive community consultation, muttering that only 1.7% of the residents were consulted. But a) 1.7% feels really high to me, and b) more community consultation isn't necessarily more democratic,

Alright I've become radicalised against the Greens. Based I've what I've seen tonight, they semantically equivocate concepts such as 'a tight knit communal feel' and a 'drawn out community consultation' with being community-forward

I've noticed that the mayor is so keep to get through the primary motion that he's just incorporating all the amendments that ask for specific streets or areas to be excluded from the uplift plan. It feels pretty arbitrary and undemocratic to me - if you CBF lobbying a local

Councilors keep moving amendments that just substantively oppose the motion 😭😭😭

The Greens have moved an amendment that would slow down the proposal, under the guise of being 'holistic', 'considered', and 'thorough' about the provision of services and amenities in response to extra housing. How fast do you think buildings get built ?

Amendment - we are now telling cute stories about individual houses to argue that specific properties with architectural or heritage significance should be excluded from the uplift plan. It's been incorporated into the primary motion

Two Greens councillors are asking fiddly questions about phasing, stages, and uplift. No idea what they're on about, sounded like a word salad to me. Don't know what their M/O is but I'm feeling sus

Councillor Jessica D'Arienzo is a queen 👑 speaking with courage and conviction for the plan. Some boos and jeers from the opposition but she looked really chuffed when the YIMBYs gave her a round of applause

The groups against the plan in the gallery are being fairly hostile to the speaker, e.g. booing and groaning when he thanked the public servants for their work on the plan. He's standing his ground tho!

It strikes me as interesting that having a pecuniary interest or personal in an area is seen as grounds that a councilor might have to recuse themselves from discussion and voting. Shouldn't we seek to be represented by people who have percuniary and personal interests in the

We've started and now all the councilors are declaring one by one that they own houses in the area so have a conflict of interest, but will stay in the meeting regardless. This part could definitely have been an email

Overhearing conversations around me (while we wait) - there seems to be a narrative from those opposed that the apartments they will build will be expensive (>$1mn). That's probably true; but for developments to be feasible, developers have to be able to sell each unit for decent

I'd hazard the room is 90% members of organised movements (as opposed to generally concerned members of the public) There's a strong showing of Sydney YIMBYs (wearing Build More Homes T-shirts) who are in support of the plan, and representation from various community groups