Local Law 2
A little paragraph here about the whole thing.
What’s this all about?
It started with a meeting…
Representatives from the shire’s sustainability groups: SHARE, Hepburn Relocalisation Network, Hepburn Z-NET, Daylesford Community Food Gardeners, Daylesford Repair Café, Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance, Localising Leanganook, Yandoit, Clydesdale and Franklinford Community Planning Group, Goathand Cooperative, and Hepburn Wind called a meeting on Tuesday 3 December at Daylesford Town Hall.
Notes from the public meeting
Community Circle: Theatre of the Actors of Regard
(Originally published at http://blogos-haha.blogspot.com/2019/12/community-circle.html) Regarding Local Law 5.3 Dangerous and Unsightly Land I propose that the word “unsightly” be removed from Local Law 5.3 and that it NOT be used in any draft or future Local Law....
Sustainability – How the laws contradict Climate emergency declaration & Z-net goals.
I have the task of explaining the big picture sustainability context of the existing and proposed local laws, in 7mins! I want to do that with reference to the historical context and two significant sources of advice to Council that reinforce the need for all council...
Imagine a world where a mother is not allowed to gather food to feed her family
I’m going to be talking about the proposed laws that want to prevent us from freely foraging on public land, removing fallen wood or planting out our nature strips. It is my turn to cook dinner. I take my basket and my hatchet and head out to our nature strip, to our...
Local Law No. 2 and the Climate Emergency
I will be speaking more broadly about what these laws will mean for us heading into a climate emergency. I would like to first acknowledge we are currently without a Local Law #2 as the 2009 General Local Law No.2 – Community Amenity & Municipal Places has...
Changes to the definitions of “Public Place” and “Events”
I will be speaking to the issue of Public Place and Events One of the items proposed to be changed is the definition of Public Place. The old definition of meant “any land owned, leased, vested in, managed or occupied by Council and includes: (a) roads and road...
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Submissions to Hepburn Shire…
Below are the submissions that have been shared with us so far. You are welcome to read and comment, in a spirit of open, respectful discussion. And please, if you’re thinking of submitting a response to the council, share it with us here, too.
Ian MacBean
Two proposed changes concern me - briefly: 1. Cat numbers and the absence of any curfew. Research evidence on the 'killing capacity' of domestic cats clearly demonstrates their dreadful impact on native wildlife. We are in the sixth great extinction and the reduction...
‘The choices we make and the things we trade-off matter’. Recommended ways forward using new public policy documents
Below is my written submission re. Local Law no. 2 and then links to the documents I recommended in my verbal presentation to the Council meeting on Friday 13th Dec. I hope they may be of use. Dear Mayor and Councillors ‘The choices we make and the things we...
Peter Tyndall Regarding : Draft General Local Law No. 2
The Mayor, Cr Licia Kokocinski Cr Cottrel, Cr Henderson, Cr May, Cr Newitt, Cr Robson, and Cr Redwood Hepburn Shire CEO, Evan King General Manager Infrastructure, Bruce Lucas Community Safety Officer, David George Dear Mayor, Councillors, CEO and Council Officers,...
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