URGENT NOTICE OF MOTION
Councillors Caroline Stott, Patrick Kelso, Lyall Kennedy, Marc Rerceretnam, and Monica Wangmann.
McGill Street Precinct Master Plan
On Wednesday, 18 November, a community forum was held at the Summer Hill Community Centre where several Marrickville councillors and community representatives briefed local residents on a Master Plan for the McGill Street precinct commissioned by Marrickville Council.
Previously, a submission was lodged by a developer with the Department of Planning as a 3(a) Application; it covered only part of the precinct and proposed residential towers up to 14 storeys containing more than 500 residential units and a large retail complex.
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Planning & Building Development Applications
NOTICE OF MOTION OF WHICH DUE NOTICE HAS BEEN GIVEN BY
COUNCILLORS Lyall Kennedy, Marc Rerceretnam and Patrick Kelso
DECLARATION OF POLITICAL DONATIONS ON PLANNING APPLICATIONS
To move Notice of Motion No. NM50/2009
Council’s website provides the following advice to those wishing to submit a DA:
“As a result of amendments to the EP&A Act 1979 and Local Government (LG) Act 1993 which commence 1st October 2008, all relevant planning applications (e.g., LEP’s, Section 94 Plans, DCP’s and development applications or modifications) and all relevant public submissions are required to disclose information relating to all reportable political donations and gifts (if any) made by any person with a financial interest in the application or submission within two (2) years before the application or submission is made and ending when the application is determined. If the political donations and gifts were made after the application or submission was made, the disclosure must be made within seven (7) days after the donations and gifts were made. The disclosure relates to:
- all reportable political donations made to any local councillor, and
- all gifts made to any local councillor or employee.”
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Cr Marc Rerceretnam
13 August 2009
Due to Ashfield’s central location, Sydney residents utilise local roads travelling to and from work on a daily basis. While residents accept this as a necessary evil, living in an area with major arterial roads such as Parramatta and Liverpool Roads, increasing levels speeding traffic continues to infiltrate our residential street areas.
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Positive Role Played by International Students’ in the Ashfield Municipality
Cr Rerceretnam, Kennedy and Kelso
Recent assaults on international students in Melbourne and more recently in Western Sydney have created trepidation between the concerned Sydney Police local area commands, the Australian government and the Indian government.
Ashfield has a large international student community and the rise in assaults against this new and susceptible community would be a concern to not only to the students and their guardians/parents overseas but their local Ashfield host community.
Joining the global move towards ‘Smart Grids’ and Decentralised Energy
Councillors Rerceretnam, Kennedy and Kelso
May 2009
Preamble
At the last Local Government elections held in Sept 2008, the Ashfield Greens promised to fight promote sustainability and encourage the use of public transport options and bicycle use where possible. These initiatives fight Climate Change and its devastating consequences seen around the globe with unprecedented floods and bush fires.
According to the London-based World Energy Council, electrical power generation is the single largest contributor to increases global CO2 levels. However the electrical power generation industry has the potential for great reductions in CO2 emissions in the short and medium term.
In the last 2 decades we have also seen monumental shifts in communications, especially in relation to the Internet. While the use of computers has been allowed to evolve over the decades, one of our largest and most expensive pieces of infrastructure, our electrical power grid, remains largely unchanged in function, interconnectedness and scope.
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June 9, 2009
COUNCILLORS Lyall Kennedy, Patrick Kelso and Marc Rerceretnam
To move Notice of Motion No. NM10/2009
The Rudd government was elected with a clear mandate to tackle climate change. The signing of the Kyoto Protocol early in his term was well received both in Australia and overseas. It placed Australia in a strong position to play a leading role in future climate change negotiations.
Unfortunately the emission trading scheme unveiled by the Rudd government earlier this year with its unambitious target of 5%-15% reduction in emissions by 2020 failed to capitalise on the goodwill previously achieved. The target was well below that recommended by Prof Ross Garnaut, the governments own climate change expert. In the report prepared by Prof Garnaut a minimum reduction of carbon emissions of 25% below 2000 levels was required to save the Great Barrier Reef from destruction and slow the rise in sea levels.
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COUNCILLORS Mark Drury and Lyall Kennedy
To move Notice of Motion No. NM29/2009
Ashfield Council acknowledges that the parking in the town centre of Ashfield is a major problem for residents, commuters, shoppers and local businesses. We don’t want to turn the CBD into a car park and we recognise the need to encourage residents and visitors to use other forms of transport and to develop solutions to car parking that integrates into local public transport plans.
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May 4, 2009
Councillors Marc Rerceretnam, Lyall Kennedy and Patrick Kelso
To move Notice of Motion No. NM24/2009
The Ashfield Town Centre has become a vibrant and bustling business centre, specialising in Shanghainese cuisine and groceries. Clientele numbers and the ensuing pedestrian traffic are high especially on weekends and public holidays.
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April 28, 2009
Councillors Marc Rerceretnam, Lyall Kennedy and Patrick Kelso
To move Notice of Motion No. NM19/2009
Ashfield residents have complained how heavy downpour causes an underground stormwater drain located in Queen Street Ashfield, to back up and overflow into surrounding properties in Queen Street and Service Avenue.
Several of these properties experience severe flooding in their backyards and in some cases flooding in parts of their home and other built up structures.
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April 17, 2009
Notice of Motion to Ashfield Council.
Councillors Rerceretnam, Kennedy and Kelso
Preamble:
The Ashfield municipality, like many intermediate areas, act as transit routes for mainly east-west and to a lesser extent north-south, small and large vehicle traffic in Sydney.
It is therefore imperative that Council look at ways to discourage, impede and circumvent the use and exacerbation of neighbourhood streets as traffic ‘rat runs’. The increase of such traffic into such streets make it much more dangerous for local residents, pedestrians, the elderly and children.
This motion proposes that Council update its review of traffic trends in the municipality. We believe the last one was done in the early 1990s.
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