{"id":1251,"date":"2014-07-31T22:34:47","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T12:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/?p=1251"},"modified":"2014-07-31T22:34:47","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T12:34:47","slug":"sos-update-july-2014-election-lead-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/2014\/07\/31\/sos-update-july-2014-election-lead-up\/","title":{"rendered":"SOS Update \u2013 July 2014 Election Lead-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the lead-up to the state election, there are several important events coming up addressing issues vital to the democratic planning and liveability of Melbourne. <a title=\"SOS eUpdate 2014-07 July Election Lead-up\" href=\"http:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/sosnewsletters\/sos-eupdate-2014-07-july-election-lead-up\/\">Our Full\u00a0Article can be found here<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Accommodating population growth.<\/li>\n<li>Upgrading\u00a0infrastructure\u00a0assets and services.<\/li>\n<li>Living standards.<\/li>\n<li>VCAT fees have risen astronomically.<\/li>\n<li>The new Plan Melbourne strategy is unashamedly designed to facilitate development, not regulate it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the very least, we need a wide public debate on future planning for Victoria.<\/p>\n<p><strong><b>* The next Victoria First meeting is this\u00a0<\/b><\/strong><strong><b>Sat. 2 Aug.\u00a0<\/b><\/strong><strong><b>at\u00a02 pm, at\u00a0the Frankston Life Saving Club. F<\/b><\/strong><strong><b>eaturing\u00a0<\/b><\/strong><strong><b>Ian Hundley (PTUA) speaking on &#8220;<em><i>The transport crisis in the Frankston area<\/i><\/em>&#8220;<\/b><\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>* The first of 3 big public events organised by IMPA (the Inner Melbourne Planning Alliance) on the planning crisis in Melbourne is on Mon. 4 Aug. at 6 \u2013 7.30pm, Deakin Edge \u2013 &#8220;<em><i>City in Crisis:\u00a0Housing &amp; Public Realm\u00a0Challenges facing an Expanded Melbourne<\/i><\/em>&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0<em>see attached flye<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>r\u00a0\u2013\u00a0no booking required: \u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.impa.org.au\/city-in-crisis\">http:\/\/www.impa.org.au\/city-in-crisis<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><i>(Also note the recent Age article on architects concerned about the\u00a0<\/i><\/em><em><i>Govt leaving apartment design standards up to developers: <\/i><\/em><em><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/victoria\/strict-design-standards-needed-now-for-melbourne-highrises-architects-20140727-zxf1n.html\">http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/victoria\/strict-design-standards-needed-now-for-melbourne-highrises-architects-20140727-zxf1n.html<\/a><\/i><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><b>* The Great Population Debate between Kelvin Thomson (MP\u00a0for\u00a0Wills) &amp; Robert Doyle (Mayor of Melbourne) is on Mon. 13\u00a0Oct.\u00a0at\u00a05.30 \u2013 7pm,\u00a0Deakin Edge.\u00a0<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ian Wood,\u00a0 President,\u00a0Save Our Suburbs Inc. (Vic)\u00a0\u00a0 <a title=\"SOS eUpdate 2014-07 July Election Lead-up\" href=\"http:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/sosnewsletters\/sos-eupdate-2014-07-july-election-lead-up\/\">Our Full\u00a0Article can be found here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the lead-up to the state election, there are several important events coming up addressing issues vital to the democratic planning and liveability of Melbourne. Our Full\u00a0Article can be found here Accommodating population growth. Upgrading\u00a0infrastructure\u00a0assets and services. Living standards. VCAT fees have risen astronomically. The new Plan Melbourne strategy is unashamedly designed to facilitate development, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44,29,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletters","category-presidentsblog","category-public"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258,"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions\/1258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}