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Advocacy Roadmap
Yarra City Council adopted an Advocacy Roadmap in November 2025, and in April 2026 chose to highlight some of the items under the brand ‘Yarra Decides’, with the aim of obtaining spending promises from the state government in the lead up to the November 2026 state election. The Advocacy Roadmap is a flawed document because…
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Inquiry into Local Government funding and services
Streets Alive Yarra made a submission to the Parliament of Victoria’s submission into Local Government funding and services: The inquiry has made submissions public – our submission is number 67. You can read our brief submission by downloading from their website or from our website: In our submission, we stated that inner-city councils are able…
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Draft Financial Sustainability Strategy
Council is asking for feedback on their draft Financial Sustainability Strategy: Strategic Levers The Draft Financial Sustainability Strategy offers seven Strategic Levers: Notably, the strategy describes the user pays principle: The user pay principle, in the context of local government, is a guiding concept that advocates for individuals or entities benefiting directly from specific services or…
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Yarra plans parking reform
Documents published for the City of Yarra council meeting on the 12th September 2023 offer insight as to why Yarra is planning to deliver reforms to on-street parking. Draft Transport Action Plan 2023-2033 The Draft Transport Action Plan describes how Yarra’s Transport Strategy 2022-2032 will actually be delivered. The Transport Action Plan offers six Strategic…
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Melbourne’s new Parking Plan
The City of Melbourne has adopted a draft Parking and Kerbside Management Plan, which is now out for community consultation: Most importantly, the draft recognises that on-street parking is subsidised: The draft clearly defines a hierarchy of uses, with safety at the top and parking for residents or commuters down at the bottom: Reflecting the…
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Darebin’s new Parking Permit Policy
Tonight, the City of Darebin will consider an updated Parking Permit Policy to go out to community consultation. Notably, the policy includes a new ‘User Pays’ Permit, which isn’t subsidised: This contrasts with the City of Yarra, which doesn’t use the work ‘subsidy’ or ‘subsidised’ anywhere in its Parking Management Strategy or Parking Permit Policy.…
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Priority for Budget 2023/24
The City of Yarra is asking residents and ratepayers to suggest what the priority should be for the Budget 2023/24, at Your Say Yarra. Budget importance Although the City of Yarra has developed a Community Vision and adopted a best practice Transport Strategy, we have yet to see those aspirations reflected in the budget. If…
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Better parking for better places
The Committee for Sydney has released a barnstorming report that advocates for multiple reforms to on-street parking, aligning with asks from Streets Alive Yarra: The report points out that on-street parking often restricts the outcome that it was intended to deliver, namely access; and that cities need to be comprised of walkable neighbourhoods that are…
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Open Data
The federal government hosts data.gov.au, where organisations such as the City of Yarra can publish datasets, and anyone can view, download or follow the datasets. The main purpose of the site is to encourage public access to and reuse of public data. It was created following the Government’s Declaration of Open Government and as a…
