Change to Territory Plan gives Tuggeranong scope for change

miz said :

The govt forgets that Tuggers is over 30 years old and was built on the cheap when self-govt was new. Sure, bring on swanky infill on the (very stinky) lake foreshore, but in exchange for that cash cow can please we have some serious ongoing maintenance and completed road duplications?

Well the lake itself needs work as do all the lakes in Canberra, but its really not as bad as some make it out to be. I use it to kayak on and many fish in the lake, sois Tuggers as bad as many make it out to be and if so why do people still live here? I’ve lived here for 38 ish years and have traveled extensively and yet to find many other places I’d prefer to live.

Drakeford drive is a far better road than Gungahlin ever got. Yeah there are bottlenecks that need to be fixed of course, but everyone will argue they have bottlenecks in their bit of the woods. We have plenty of houses with decent sized yards, but lack the medium and high density, which other have that invigorate the town centres themselves.

The town centre needs rejuvenation, I’m interested to see just what SouthQuay development does for the area. Building more houses on the other side of the river will fix no problem and create more and Zed is way of the mark at that suggestion. Some higher density living in places like Erindale and tuggeranong itself will help attract business, because there are more people nearby and its convenient.

The govt forgets that Tuggers is over 30 years old and was built on the cheap when self-govt was new. Sure, bring on swanky infill on the (very stinky) lake foreshore, but in exchange for that cash cow can please we have some serious ongoing maintenance and completed road duplications?

Don’t worry, the tram will fix it.

Agree that better planning and use of the land from the Hyperdome to the lake would have been a good start. Why do we have a KFC and a MacDonalds by the lake instead of some good cafes and restaurants. It all seems screwed up.
Fixing this will be better than Zed’s stupid plan of building across from the Murrumbidgee.

How about actually putting some effort and money into improving the areas near the shops and Macdonalds and building something to attract people into the Tuggeranong precinct.

There is nothing here that you would bring a visitor to, nothing for teenagers who don’t like skateboarding and graffittii, the ACT government has ignored the area for so long that increasing the building height from 4 to 8 stories is not going to make any difference to help Tuggeranong residents.

Maybe the press release would have been better used to soak up lake scum or to lay on the benches by the lake that haven’t seen a coat of paint in 20 years. Lake Belconnen must have had $1000 from ACT taxpayers to every single dollar spent on Lake Tuggerenong.