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It's our birthday we can reform if we want to.
On May 22, come join the team and celebrate one year of YIMBY Melbourne.
🎟️🎟️🎟️ are free and they're here:
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Why is Brunswick—one of Melbourne’s trendiest suburbs—almost entirely restricted to low-density housing? Why can you only build two storey single dwellings around its plentiful train and tram stops?
The answer: NIMBYs. 🧵
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We're excited to announce that
@Boroondara
has entered a new frontier of heritage-listing: concrete roads.
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The development in question? It is simply two 2-story townhouses replacing a single detached dwelling. The horror!
If this is overdevelopment, then what exactly constitutes a good level of development?
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A development in Thornbury has received 38 objections and a petition against it with 129 signatories.
It's claimed that this "overdevelopment", that it will devalue property prices, and that it will set an "unwelcome precedent" in planning outcomes in Darebin.
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And the state of affairs in Melbourne is even more dire: more than 30% of residential-zoned land within 10km of the CBD is heritage-protected.
This is untenable for a city that wants and needs to grow.
The NSW Productivity Commission report found about a quarter of residential-zoned land within 10 kilometres of Sydney's CBD is subject to heritage protection restricting redevelopment
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Today, we release our flagship Melbourne's Missing Middle report.
We want a Melbourne for everyone. One that's liveable, affordable, and sustainable. This document provides the key steps to getting us there.
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We're pleased to welcome
@Kevin_McCloud
to the Australian YIMBY movement.
Home truths: TV’s Kevin McCloud thinks Australia should stop building such big houses
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Did you know that most Councils do not notify the public when new meeting agendas are released? You have to check manually.
That is, until now. Our team has just open-sourced a project to solve just this problem.
And it can work Australia-wide.
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A victory for Maribyrnong residents tonight, as Planning Scheme Amendment C172 is abandoned by
@MaribyrnongCC
.
800 homes have been saved tonight from "protection" by a new
#heritagemadness
overlay, forever restricting housing use and supply.
Thank you councillors.
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3.3 hectares of land in Brighton was unlocked upon Xavier College closing their campus. A developer proposed building 84 double-storey dwellings on this lot.
Only 34.9% of the site will have buildings and 48.9% will be garden area.
It's 350m from Brighton Beach station.
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The
@cityofmelbourne
has been working with a Heritage Consultant who wants you to know that accessibility is "not relevant" to their assessment.
CoM appears to be taking that advice onboard, and recommends using a heritage overlay to keep a train station inaccessible forever.
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ANNOUNCING: Save Nicholson Street Village
Homelessness is a housing problem. That's why we're doing our part to save Nicholson Street, and raise money for
@LaunchHousing
's Parachute Fund to support individuals and families at risk of homelessness.
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Last night
@MerribekCouncil
considered (and approved) Hope St, Brunswick, where a mixed-use development with 280 dwellings has been proposed by Nightingale!
We had some of our lovely members and supporters appear to fight for it and other developments in consideration!
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Today, we put out a press release about Melbourne's Missing Middle. Our definition is simple: Melbourne, our nation's most European city, needs six-storey, mixed-use Parisian density.
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Last night at the Merri-bek council meeting Cr.
@JamesMConlan
explains how he wants to weaponise heritage overlays as a way preventing housing developments rather than it's original purpose to protect cultural & historically significant buildings
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It's great to see that VCAT overturned the decision to reduce the scale of Nightingale's Florence Street project!
The project will now be able to deliver 10% affordable housing.
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We’ve been profiled alongside
@SydneyYIMBY
by
@EliasVisontay
for
@GuardianAus
.
The piece is fantastic, and really lays out what we’re fighting for, and why housing abundance is a fight everyone can get behind.
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Today, we release our brand new report: Missing Middle Housing Targets.
Our policy gives Councils a clear choice: let more homes get built and get paid, or refuse to do your part and get penalised.
To end our housing crisis, that's the kind of accountability we need.
Nimbys v Yimbys: the affluent inner Melbourne suburbs that aren’t pulling their weight on housing
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New article from
@abcnews
about the conflict between maintaining broad Heritage Overlays—and building the 800,000 homes Victoria needs.
You cannot solve the housing crisis by turning your city into a museum.
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Fantastic news coming out of Frankston! The restrictive 3-story interim control has been removed and the Frankston City Council's proposal of a 12-story preferred height limit will proceed!
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SRL precincts will deliver less than 10% of the 800k homes
@VicGovAu
aims to deliver over the next decade, as per the Housing Statement.
We have the opportunity to unlock the other 90% right now, through broad transit-oriented upzoning.
NSW already did it. Now it's our turn.
Suburban Rail Loop: a billion-dollar vision for Melbourne to be a ‘city of centres’ that might take too long
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We announced our four key Policy Pillars today. Over the coming months, our team will be developing actionable policies under each of these pillars.
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Our local democracy favours the time-rich and homeowners above everyone else.
If we want a more equitable system it needs to change:
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We'll be at the City of Darebin meeting tonight to speak in favour of the two-storey townhouses! Check out the live stream below!
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The development in question? It is simply two 2-story townhouses replacing a single detached dwelling. The horror!
If this is overdevelopment, then what exactly constitutes a good level of development?
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Check out our (brief) appearance on 7News tonight talking about the SRL precincts!
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It simply shouldn't be *this* hard to build good medium-density apartment projects right next to an abundance of public transport.
The planning system needs to be fixed!
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"Australian cities have an abundance of affordable, subsidised and often free homes – but only for cars."
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AFTER RAISING $2000 IN SIX HOURS BEFORE GETTING SHUT DOWN BY BIG NIMBY (GoFundMe's automated filter) — THE YIMBY MELBOURNE HOMELESSNESS FUND IS BACK!
DONATE NOW!
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Whilst
@CityofDarebin
may have good intentions, who benefits from protecting an empty church from being turned into housing?
Who benefits when we force Uniting Church to foot the bill to maintain an unused delapating asset? 🧵
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The politics are different now: this year, renter wellbeing and housing affordability are on the ballot.
Victorians know it's time for our planning system to focus on delivering more homes for more people, instead of running a protection racquet for incumbent landowners.
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C'mon Melbourne, we can't let Sydney beat us! We need ambitious upzoning to unlock our missing middle!
Probably the most Sydney YIMBY-coded policy of all time. Let’s get it done!
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Melbourne's obsession with upper-level setback requirements needs a desperate rethink.👇
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Arbitrary design regulations like those in the thread below are stifling the soul of our city, and seriously impacting Melbourne's ability to deliver more homes where people want to live.
As part of their forthcoming reforms, the Victorian Government must unban beauty.
Depressing outcome: A proposal for 9 dwellings in Fitzroy is cut back to 1 after being rejected by VCAT and City of Yarra.
✅Commercial Zone
✅Neighbourhood Activity Centre
✅No building height requirements specified
✅Non-contributory heritage
❌Still found to be 'too tall'
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Fantastic news! Brunswick has long been evolving as a high-demand, well connected liveable suburb, and it's not fair for young Melbournian renters and first-home buyers being priced out of these areas because of NIMBYs abusing the heritage system
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The solution to the housing crisis isn't 2 hr+ commutes everyday with endless suburban sprawl. It's too painful and the economics are completely warped. Car ownership isn't cheap.
The answer has always been to build where people actually wish to live.
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Fantastic new research from
@rachel_gall_
et al shows how heritage rules exclude poorer people from our cities, reserving amenity and infrastructure for only the wealthiest land-owning incumbents.
Brisbane planning laws keeping poor out of city’s most desirable suburbs, research suggests
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Enormous news ahead of the State Government's housing and planning overhaul.
The proposal is simple: provide affordable housing, and you get to bypass NIMBYs.
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As discussed in our newest report, Missing Middle Housing Targets, Melbourne *needs* accountable targets to ensure that we build enough homes in our core urban areas. This is a step in the right direction.
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Tonight,
@CityofMaroondah
will be voting on Heritage Overlay C148—one that has already devastated the lives of families across the Council area.
Today,
@abcnews
has covered the story of two affected families.
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I guess we'll have to wait and see! Hope to see some of y'all at the next Darebin meeting:
Planning Committee Meeting to be held at Darebin Civic Centre, 350 High Street Preston on Monday 13 November 2023 at 6.30pm.
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If we cannot build the most milquetoast developments in well-located brownfield sites then something is deeply wrong with how our planning system functions.
This is a clear-cut case of a wealthy suburb fighting tooth and nail to close the gates to their community.
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Bye bye parking minimums! Parking reform is important step towards a more affordable and livable Melbourne!
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Governments everywhere are realising a fundamental truth: real action on the affordability and liveability of our cities will make them popular.
First NSW, now ACT, and next? Victoria.
Great to see
@ChrisSteelMLA
focusing on barriers to missing middle housing and the need for more homes near local shops! More homes in the places people want to live means greener and easier commutes, and more affordable housing options for all Canberrans.
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"Giving residents the right to build granny flats without a planning permit rides roughshod over community concerns and could irreversibly change streetscapes"
City of Boroondara takes a stand against common sense.
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We'll be on ABC Melbourne Radio @ 8:50 to talk about Bayside Council's blocking of this project!
A bid to build 84 two-storey townhouses on a former Xavier College campus has been rejected by the council – against its own planning advice – after a barrage of resident complaints, including that the homes would have flat roofs.
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DANIEL ANDREWS CALLS FOR 'ABUNDANT' HOUSING.
Our press release in response to this morning's Victorian Housing Statement, recognising that
@DanielAndrewsMP
and the
@VicGovAu
have made a clear call for housing abundance, and this first step is welcomed.
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This morning, we are excited to launch the YIMBY Melbourne FAQ!
This is quick answers to all your YIMBY queries—from planning reform and zoning, through to common misconceptions, the YIMBY Melbourne FAQ is a one-stop shop for quick answers.
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Upzoning works.
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The YIMBYs are here.
Article ft.
@MaxHolleran
,
@klrhull
,
@jonobri
, calling for a better, denser Melbourne.
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This year has been more than we could have ever imagined. We'll see you in the next one.
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Today,
@peter_tulip
releases his fantastic summary of how housing abundance really is a rising tide that lifts all ships.
It is no longer tenable for NIMBY Councils to block new housing supply. We have to build more homes, and we have to build them where people want to live.
"A shortage of housing is like a game of musical chairs. Regardless of who is playing or the quality of the chairs, if there are not enough then the weakest will miss out. If supply is abundant, those at the bottom benefit most," writes
@peter_tulip
.
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Yesterday the
@VicParliament
Inquiry into the rental and housing affordability crisis dropped their final report! At a mammoth 388 pages, it highlights the scale and the depth of the challenges our state is facing.
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The Victorian Government has laid out an ambitious target to build more homes across our growing state. But the Housing Statement only covers two ends of the spectrum: $50m+ developments and granny flats. It completely ignores Melbourne's Missing Middle.
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Good news from Maroondah! A planning panel has recommended removing many properties from their proposed post-WWII heritage overlay.
"Maroondah homeowners up in arms over council’s proposed heritage reforms"
Eastern suburbs’ homeowners have accused their council of “wasting” more than $240,000 on consultants for a controversial proposed heritage reform plan.
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For years, Melbourne has been growing in the most environmentally damaging way possible: greenfield development. Destroying the natural environment, pushing poorer people out of the city, and creating car-dependency.
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Many zoning decisions that affect us today were not made using any empirical science or methodology. They were made, by and large, for political reasons.
The story of Merri-bek becoming a low-density LGA is a clear demonstration of how the system is broken.
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It’s disappointing to see another housing project with good access to public transport and local amenities and which provides social housing being opposed by the local council and NIMBYs.
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We have just released our press release off the back of today's Victorian Budget.
Top line: in the absence of meaningful reform, the Allan Government will soon run out of time to blame external factors for low housing delivery.
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The City of Darebin just BLOCKED this development.
Off to VCAT!
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Here we are at the
@VicParliament
Inquiry yesterday, summarising the Melbourne's Missing Middle report for
@bach_mp
and the rest of the committee.
The report here is being tabled as evidence after
@BrendanCoates
mentioned our work during his testimony on behalf of
@GrattanInst
.
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It’s fantastic to see Melbourne finally get a proper town square (no offence Fed Square) especially in place of a car park. More open greenspaces for those in the CBD improves the quality of living for market goers and the local community!
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Continuing on with the Inquiry into land transfer duty fees, we have
@_davidlimbrick
from the
@LibertariansAus
asking about equity issues with land taxes. First Jonathan's answer:
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Front and centre on
@theage
: calls from
@AndrewMaynard
,
@colleenpeterson
,
@ThompsonKerstin
, and
@jonobri
: make it easier to build beautiful things.
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"We’re looting active and public transport budgets to subsidise parking budgets."
The way we approach car parking in planning needs a rethink!
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Why did the council block a development that their own planners recommended by approved?
The answer: NIMBYism
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Maroondah may have "an obligation to conserve important buildings"—but these buildings are not important.
These are families' homes with no historical value. They are of interest only to heritage consultants, a tyrannical minority granted the outsized power to ruin lives.
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Infrastructure Victoria's new report highlights the imperative to build Melbourne's Missing Middle!
More growth in our inner-to-middle suburbs will lead to better access to jobs, health and education services, amenities and all of Melbourne's wonders.
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A train station is, first and foremost, public infrastructure. It should serve the public.
This might be a fine example of heritage, but it's not the world-class infrastructure a world-class city deserves.
This overlay will keep Flemington Bridge Station outdated forever.
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On this map, the aqua marks the 'Capital City Zone'—the CBD. The salmon is 'Neighbourhood Residential Zone'. This is where it is illegal to build more than a single two-storey dwelling.
In the middle of our inner-city.
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"...when the council asked the community whether they wanted to see the trees remain along the trail – which has little shade or vegetation – 94 per cent of more than 700 respondents said they did."
NIMBYs still get their way even if it goes against local democracy.
The insanity of Melbourne's NIMBY culture writ large.
Removal of newly planted trees along a public path to protect views and property values of a tiny minority🤦♂️
@liveable_melb
@heritage_why
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The obsession with treating all homes over x age as archaeological artifacts needs to change.
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Last week we released our Missing Middle Housing Target report.
A key pillar of the report is highlighting *why* we need higher excess-zoned capacity 🧵
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The coolest thing about building more homes where people want to live is all the knock-on effects you get.
Not only do you see housing prices reduce, but also transport costs & emissions.
Dense cities are better because they reduce movement costs for both people & environment.
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Implementation of housing targets on local councils is a great step towards helping align different levels of government towards housing abundance.
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We're honoured to have been invited by the Planning Institute of Australia (Vic) to present a briefing on our newest report, Missing Middle Housing Targets!
@jonobri
and
@Jonathan_Nolan_
will present this briefing online on Friday, May 10th 👇
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HERITAGE MADNESS.
Paired flyer drops for Tuesday's dual council meetings. Tune in to us and
@SydneyYIMBY
on the night to hear how it all goes down. We're hoping to see Councils make the right decisions as homeowners speak up.
In a crisis, aesthetics are not the priority.
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In 2013, Merri-Bek Council started the process of rezoning all its land to implement the newly created residential zones.
The rezoning logic was simple: focus upzoning within 400m of activity centres and train stations with a gradual decline of density further away.
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Did we mention? This weekend, we incorporated. Please welcome a brand new legal entity: YIMBY MELBOURNE INCORPORATED.
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Our full appearance on this morning's
@abcnews
/
@BreakfastNews
is now available for all who missed it!
Watch our own
@jonobri
cover zoning, heritage, and the importance of building out the missing middle across Melbourne and Australia.
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Restricting dark roofs in our growth areas is a great idea!
It's also an example of where strong leadership from local councils, like
@WyndhamCouncil
, have helped pave the way for better outcomes!
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Unbanning Beauty, tonight at the Capitol Theatre, with an unbelievable number of ticket sales and appetite for change and reform.
Free sticker with every ticket.
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Boorondara claims that they aren't "NIMBY" but the facts completely betray them🧵
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The council officers' initial proposal was modest upzoning inline with the state government’s Plan Melbourne strategy.
Heritage areas were excluded from upzoning. Nearly all upzoned areas were within walking distance of a train or tram stop.
This was a pretty good plan!
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Australia has the largest average residential property in the world.
No wonder the NIMBY rhetoric of “shoebox” apartments works as a scare tactic—even when those apartments are still upward of 70m2.
The reality is that for many folks, small apartments are joyous.
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Everything listed on our flyers is contained within the overlay policies we're fighting against. We do not spread misinformation.
For paint restrictions, see the excerpt from the Marrickville DCP.
For material use restrictions, see the excerpt from the Maribyrnong proposal.
@yimbymelbourne
@SydneyYIMBY
If you want to be considered a serious organisation I suggest you learn exactly what your talking about first, half of this stuff is entirely made up like limits on construction materials? paint restrictions? this is just plain misinformation. Surely you know this?
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Today,
@ChrisMinnsMP
&
@paulscullymp
have announced that they will be building Sydney's Missing Middle.
This is exciting news, and a clear sign to
@JacintaAllanMP
&
@SonyaKilkenny
that the time for real, ambitious policy action is now.
Let's build Melbourne's Missing Middle.
Today the govt has announced that they’re basically upzoning everything within 800m of stations. 3-6 storeys by default in R3 zones, townhouses and small apartment buildings in R2 zones. This is the very rare policy that actually meets the scale of our housing crisis head on.
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This is why it's hard to argue that our current local council system works for anyone who wants anything other than the status quo.
Broken local government is good for rich homeowners who want full control over their fiefdom.
Turns out
@CityofDarebin
's toxic councillor problem is already well-documented, including in a Municipal Monitor report by the Victorian Government:
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This demonstrates how blunt instruments such as heritage overlays can be used maliciously to conserve communities for the lucky few rather than the many.
Heritage should be carefully considered on a case by case basis to prevent broad abuse
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The Royal Exhibition Building commentary is well-timed, as the
@cityofmelbourne
is currently consulting on their Heritage Strategy.
The city already has 12,867 heritage-protected properties. We think the question should be asked: what exactly could make no. 12,868 significant?
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@_ozbargain
ALTHOUGH NO EVIDENCE REMAINS OF THE ORIGINAL COMPLEX, "the location of the railway station" is historically significant.
We disagree. The location of the railway station is significant because it allows people living nearby to go where they want to go.
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ANNOUNCING: our first event of the year—a conversation with David Mepham about his new book 'Rethinking Parking'.
Tickets are free, and you can book below:
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Tomorrow morning, our own
@jonobri
will be on
@BreakfastNews
/
@abcnews
to discuss the housing crisis, housing abundance, and the importance of building more homes where people want to live.
Tune in across Australia from 7am!
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A huge success. Thank you to everyone who made this happen, and to
@klrhull
and
@Jonathan_Nolan_
for giving us their time and energy to be on the panel with
@gabster0191
.
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The Parliamentary Inquiry into stamp duty has released its report!
The report heavily features YIMBY Melbourne testimony. We were honoured to provide evidence that led to the third, key Recommendation: work toward the replacement of stamp duty with a land tax.
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The outcome of Pentridge Prison housing projects demonstrates the failings of our current planning system in two key areas: preferred heights and heritage. 🧵
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And within a 5km radius? More than 56% of Melbourne's residential land is affected by heritage controls.
There are no doubt buildings we can and should protect. But it cannot be the case that those protections should extend to more than half our inner-city.
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