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 …

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 …

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: …

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: …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Faster reforms to parking

A previous article examined Yarra’s existing parking policies, highlighted their inconsistencies, and offered solutions. Most of the proposed solutions require council to update their systems and technologies, such as releasing …

Return congestion levy to councils

Streets Alive Yarra has written to Tim Pallas, Treasurer of Victoria, asking for the revenue from the state government congestion levy be returned to the local government councils from whence …

On equity and social justice

One of Streets Alive Yarra’s values is a commitment to equity and social justice. All of our policy proposals and street designs are based on this value, including our proposals …