{"id":427,"date":"2006-05-20T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-19T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"toorongavillage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/2006\/05\/20\/toorongavillage\/","title":{"rendered":"Tooronga Village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Starting out with a development that the council supported, it soon moved into an exercise of frustration for Boroondara council and local residents. Not only would the developer not agree to a slight reduction in height &#8211; requiring deletion of a mere 40 out of 600 apartments &#8211; but when the council decided not to continue with the amendment Planning Minister Rob Hulls took control .<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Most people would agree that having the Minister involved in projects of state significance is a good idea, but HOW can allowing an extra 40 apartments be of State significance???<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nFor the history of the project go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boroondara.vic.gov.au\/planning\/planning_projects_and_strategies\/tooronga\">council page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For a brief description of what has just happened, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/news\/national\/hulls-attacked-over-his-development-stance\/2006\/04\/14\/1144521503676.html\">The Age article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Starting out with a development that the council supported, it soon moved into an exercise of frustration for Boroondara council and local residents. Not only would the developer not agree to a slight reduction in height &#8211; requiring deletion of a mere 40 out of 600 apartments &#8211; but when the council decided not to continue with the amendment Planning Minister Rob Hulls took control .<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Most people would agree that having the Minister involved in projects of state significance is a good idea, but HOW can allowing an extra 40 apartments be of State significance???<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nFor the history of the project go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boroondara.vic.gov.au\/planning\/planning_projects_and_strategies\/tooronga\">council page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For a brief description of what has just happened, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/news\/national\/hulls-attacked-over-his-development-stance\/2006\/04\/14\/1144521503676.html\">The Age article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-protest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}