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At last night’s City of Sydney Council meeting, Greens Cr Chris Harris moved a budget amendment to include a contribution by the City of Sydney Council to a light rail link between Railway Square and Circular Quay down Castlereagh Street.
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Greens Cr Chris Harris has welcomed the government’s decision to re-open Bourke Street south of William Street in Darlinghurst.”I’m pleased that the Greens were able to be part of the community’s success in getting Bourke Street reopened ” said Cr Harris.
Greens City of Sydney Councillor Chris Harris and Greens parliamentarian Lee Rhiannon MLC conducted a Martin Place protest meeting which was attended by about 100 cyclists.Changes to roads following the Cross City Tunnel debacle caused traffic chaos and increased air pollution in Eastern Sydney and so the government, following a parliamentary inquiry, has decided to reverse some of those road changes.
In order to create an extra right turning lane into Palmer St on William St westbound, the RTA has announced that it will remove the bicycle lane on the north side of William St between Palmer St and the Kings Cross Tunnel. In addition it will remove cycle lanes in Kings Cross Road and Craigend St.
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The Greens have called on Minister Sartor to stipulate that a percentage of affordable housing targeted to people on low to moderate incomes be included within the new development on the CUB site on Broadway in Chippendale.
“Minister Sartor is currently thinking about taking over the CUB project. He has said that he will levy the developers for affordable housing, but it will be spent in Redfern/Waterloo. We are saying that affordable housing should then be provided at the CUB site, not a suburb away”, said Sylvia Hale, Greens spokesperson on planning and housing, and Councillor Chris Harris, City of Sydney Greens councillor and local resident.
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Greens spokesperson for planning, Sylvia Hale MLC, and Sydney City Councillor, Chris Harris, have condemned the decision of four government appointees to overrule the three elected members of the Central Sydney Planning Committee and ask Planning Minister Frank Sartor to ‘call in’ the Carlton United Brewery site in Chippendale.
“If the Minister bows to pressure from Fosters to increase the number of units and height of the towers, the impact on Chippendale’s residents will be enormous,” Ms Hale said.
“Not only will Chippendale’s population treble, but the development levies that would usually fund the community facilities needed to provide decent living conditions for residents will be diverted to Redfern/Waterloo.
“This is an exercise in robbing Peter to pay Paul. The government should be providing the funds Redfern/Waterloo so desperately needs, not stripping them from Chippendale.
“Good planning should not result in minimal sunlight, few community facilities and almost no open space. Yet this will be the result if speed and appeasing the developer are the Minister’s dominant concerns.
“The people of Chippendale and of the city of Sydney elected the Council to plan for their future. The Minister should not step in and usurp that role,” said Ms Hale.
Greens City of Sydney Councillor, Chris Harris, says the draft planning controls supported by the Lord Mayor already allow 1800 units, 1750 cars, two towers the height of a football field plus other towers with 20-plus storeys.
“Over 500 of these units could see no sunlight. It is already looking like a slum - how could it be made any worse? It looks like Mr Sartor is willing to give it a try! It is amazing just how much those political donations from developers can buy,” Councillor Harris said.
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