Simon promises more infill as he releases the planning strategy

Ah, if only he had built the wondrous benefits of the Strategy in Lego…

Deref said :

Gungahlins for everyone!

+1 (or should that be -1)

Sad day indeed. It’s like you can’t escape crappy development anymore, not even by living in established suburbs.

As for Simon’s push to move more people next to good public transport, wouldn’t a more logical solution to weaning the people off car addiction give better public transport to the people? It would be way cheaper to roll out more efficient, more direct and more frequent services to places like Weston (from which you can’t even catch a direct bus to the city – even though it takes 12mins or less to drive there, and approx 30mins to cycle – yes, riding a bike at 22kmh is faster than catching the two buses it currently takes to get there!) than it would to develop the Adelaide Ave corridor and expect all the people who don’t want to be car reliant move there. The only people who’d win under this scenario are developers, and the lazy ACTION planners who think their existing network is perfect and resist all efforts to modernise it.

The bush capital is turning into the capital the capital of the bush. All future developments will be exemplary and vibrant! Now German cities want to be copied.
The precedent of Gungahlin Garden suburb will be repeated in new greenfield developments. Squeezing as many blocks as possible, more 200m2 blocks, to maximise yield There will be minimal landscaping on individual blocks and only low maintenance landscaping in public open space. No wonder 50% of people buying suburban blocks in Googong are from Canberra.
It does appear that carparking provisions for multi-unit developments are going to change so the Property Council should be happy. The trend now of using the streets will continue as this is a cheap option. Tradies will have to swap their utes & 4WDs for pushbikes.
The ACT budget is so dependent on real estate on wonders what will happen when the Abbot razor starts cutting the federal public sector.

EvanJames said :

And as always, rapid population growth is projected as good, and unquestionable. Everyone gets to pay, quality of life goes down, but few people question it.

From the point of view of a wholly-owned subsidiary of the building industry (i.e. the grubbyment), of course it looks good!

Gungahlins for everyone!

How about a rezone? RZ1 becomes RZ2, RZ2 becomes RZ3, etc. At least within 3km of centres and corridors.

you are a d**khead Simon. The fact that Gungahlin is full of small single lane arterial roads would be the reason traffic is backed up like blocked sewer and make a rapid transit project impossible.

So in 9 year’s time, Tuggeranong will be over run with oldies and according to page 24, ACT households will represent between 110% to 180% of all households (depending how you try to interpret that mangled graph)?

Can’t wait for the sudden dramatic change of Tuggie Thuggies to Tuggie Wrinklies.

Also love the creation of a new way of presenting numbers on page 22. There are 69,40 jobs in Gunghalin. Using the European decimal standard, that would translat to 69.4 jobs in Gunghalin.

And as always, rapid population growth is projected as good, and unquestionable. Everyone gets to pay, quality of life goes down, but few people question it.