Changes to parking in the City of Melbourne aimed at simplifying the experience enabled the council to rake in an additional $5 million in parking fines last year.
Townhouses and apartments can now be built,with fast-tracked approval,closer to footpaths and neighbours under sweeping changes.
The City of Melbourne is aiming to reduce the number of wildlife killed and pets lost or hurt on roads.
There is uncertainty over more of the lord mayor’s election promises,including a rates freeze,as a hostile council complains about the city’s mounting debt.
The British singer received the key to Melbourne before a crowd at Federation Square. But a donation to Lord Mayor Nick Reece’s election campaign and the late notice to councillors have raised questions.
The future of e-scooters in Melbourne is increasingly under threat with Neuron and Lime announcing they will no longer operate in the City of Yarra after they copped a 400 per cent council fee hike.
Glen Eira City Council is resisting an eight-story housing project in Murrumbeena that it fears will overshadow heritage-listed shops,but it does have supporters looking to get a foothold in the area.
The government’s target tree canopy for urban areas is at odds with its new tree targets for apartment and townhouse developments.
Aidan McLindon,the former Freedom Party candidate who became an outer-suburban mayor,is at war with his own council after he was barred from attending meetings over repeated allegations of poor behaviour.
A statue of the explorers will not return to its prime location in Melbourne’s city square.