10 years old! Why are we so insane with safety messages to parents lol

Please

I get irrationally irritated by these 'teach kids to walk safely' initiatives.

They should invest more in 'close the roads so kids can be safe walking to school' days.

Imo trees make the biggest difference to street quality, not architecture

Watching some overpriced rentals in Melbourne and its nice to see that landlords still don't decide the price - the market does

Sort of. It assumes you take the extra $45K a year and invest it.

More high income people are promoting renting over buying, and I think this will be good for the politics of renters rights

It's happening: Melbourne is now a perfect city

Does this offend you? Having a taller building next to a smaller building is condemned in our planning system, but I think it looks fine.

Now that Melbourne is a marginal seat do we get some perks? More infrastructure funding, cool parks, maybe a new pool?

Asked chatgpt "what is the optimal size of a city?" The answer was pretty good:

Vaguely YIMBY/ pro-housing messages?

Less of: This apartment building was a great housing outcome, it is now our case study for the whole planning system.

More of: This international system got great housing outcomes. It is now the case study for the whole planning system.

State/local planners seem to over-rely on lessons from excellent individual developments.

They should instead take a lot more of their lessons from excellent planning *systems*.

At least have a voting site in Docklands. You would think there is a space there

Why is there no early voting in the CBD?

Good that there is no "stop greedy developers" language from the Greens

Interesting style choice for this heritage house

Goki blocks, 18 pieces

$49.95 price tag

Our walkable neighbourhood has a few high end toy stores my kids like to browse when we get coffee on the weekends. Useful to see the price of toys without China - 18 wooden blocks for $50 (made in Europe).

For every 'heritage car park' there are 10 'heritage warehouses'

This proposal honestly looks way too small for a renewal area

Link: www.northwestcitynews.com.au/no-clear-com...

Pretty bold policy proposal

Yes a suburb of retired barristers who love to keep using their legal skills in VCAT cases

So bizarre. The Melbourne Lord Mayor confesses his desire to leave Carlton and move to East Melbourne. Pandering to a suburb with only 2 per cent of the council's population.

Link:
www.innercitynews.com.au/east-melbour...

Apartments are obviously more affordable than houses. Yet you still hear NIMBYs argue the opposite.

Link:
www.theage.com.au/property/new...

Her main cause was preventing government-led renewal but the process she found most useful to that goal was preventing all change via the historic protections. Noble goals, problematic outcomes.

Jane Jacobs altered the facade of her NYC house and removed the ground-floor shop before she advocated for historic protections for everyone else's house in the neighbourhood.

From the book "Stuck": www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/700580...

Do your part.

Emergency submission workshop online this Wednesday night.

Book store on Lygon Street in Melbourne

Tree-lined shopping streets are good. We should build a lot of new housing on/near these streets to make sure they stay alive.

The correct feelings to feel when a cute old house is destroyed...

Sad: Cute old house destroyed by a fire.

Meh: Cute old house destroyed to replace with a modern house.

Excited: Cute house destroyed to make way for townhouses or apartments.