“A radical plan to overhaul the tax system for housing, open up Melbourne’s middle suburbs and stop rampant population growth on the city’s outer fringe has been proposed by Victoria’s peak infrastructure body.”
“A radical plan to overhaul the tax system for housing, open up Melbourne’s middle suburbs and stop rampant population growth on the city’s outer fringe has been proposed by Victoria’s peak infrastructure body.”
Just walked past a NIMBY “stop development and protect our heritage” sign in Albert park yesterday.
It’ll be interesting to see how this long standing “culture war” of sorts goes. In terms of demographics, there is in my experience a real generational aspect to it. “This isn’t the city I signed up for” would say the “Boomer”. Will it be a matter of coffins in the ground marking progress?
@maegul @ajsadauskas@lemmy.ml I think some of it is generational, but a lot more of it is about socioeconomic class.
Protecting heritage sounds nice, until you realise that the people who would have lived in Albert Park, a short tram ride from the city, are instead forced to the suburban fringe in places like Wyndham, Melton, Pakenham, or Craigieburn.
And instead of being served by the existing infrastructure in Albert Park, we instead need to build new schools and hospitals to service those new suburban fringe housing estates.
And because public transport is often atrocious out there (a half hourly bus), many opt for cars.
Which causes more traffic congestion from the outer suburbs to the inner city. And more pollution.
Yep and yep and yep and …