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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

10 years old! Why are we so insane with safety messages to parents lol

Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I get irrationally irritated by these 'teach kids to walk safely' initiatives. They should invest more in 'close the roads so kids can be safe walking to school' days.

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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Imo trees make the biggest difference to street quality, not architecture

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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Watching some overpriced rentals in Melbourne and its nice to see that landlords still don't decide the price - the market does

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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Sort of. It assumes you take the extra $45K a year and invest it.

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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

More high income people are promoting renting over buying, and I think this will be good for the politics of renters rights

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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

It's happening: Melbourne is now a perfect city

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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Does this offend you? Having a taller building next to a smaller building is condemned in our planning system, but I think it looks fine.

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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Now that Melbourne is a marginal seat do we get some perks? More infrastructure funding, cool parks, maybe a new pool?

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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Asked chatgpt "what is the optimal size of a city?" The answer was pretty good:

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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Vaguely YIMBY/ pro-housing messages?

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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Less of: This apartment building was a great housing outcome, it is now our case study for the whole planning system. More of: This international system got great housing outcomes. It is now the case study for the whole planning system.

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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

State/local planners seem to over-rely on lessons from excellent individual developments. They should instead take a lot more of their lessons from excellent planning *systems*.

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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

At least have a voting site in Docklands. You would think there is a space there

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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Why is there no early voting in the CBD?

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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Good that there is no "stop greedy developers" language from the Greens

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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Interesting style choice for this heritage house

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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Our walkable neighbourhood has a few high end toy stores my kids like to browse when we get coffee on the weekends. Useful to see the price of toys without China - 18 wooden blocks for $50 (made in Europe).

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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

For every 'heritage car park' there are 10 'heritage warehouses'

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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

This proposal honestly looks way too small for a renewal area Link: www.northwestcitynews.com.au/no-clear-com...

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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Yes a suburb of retired barristers who love to keep using their legal skills in VCAT cases

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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

So bizarre. The Melbourne Lord Mayor confesses his desire to leave Carlton and move to East Melbourne. Pandering to a suburb with only 2 per cent of the council's population. Link: www.innercitynews.com.au/east-melbour...

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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Apartments are obviously more affordable than houses. Yet you still hear NIMBYs argue the opposite. Link: www.theage.com.au/property/new...

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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Her main cause was preventing government-led renewal but the process she found most useful to that goal was preventing all change via the historic protections. Noble goals, problematic outcomes.

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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Jane Jacobs altered the facade of her NYC house and removed the ground-floor shop before she advocated for historic protections for everyone else's house in the neighbourhood. From the book "Stuck": www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/700580...

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Jonathan O'Brien @jonobri.com · 13/04/2025

Do your part. Emergency submission workshop online this Wednesday night.

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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Tree-lined shopping streets are good. We should build a lot of new housing on/near these streets to make sure they stay alive.

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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

The correct feelings to feel when a cute old house is destroyed... Sad: Cute old house destroyed by a fire. Meh: Cute old house destroyed to replace with a modern house. Excited: Cute house destroyed to make way for townhouses or apartments.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 11/04/2025

How do we get the infill housing we need while preventing displacement and helping Californians build generational wealth? By letting cash-poor homeowners partner with developers to build small condo buildings. This strategy worked in postwar Greece and it can work here if we get the policy right.

sfchronicle.com

Greece offers a blueprint for ending California’s housing crisis

Post-war Greece was short about 3-4 million homes. The problem was solved within a generation using a homespun financial agreement called antiparochi.

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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

High quality Chinese electric cars everywhere I go now

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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

My daughter picked up this made-in-China Easter bunny this morning. She doesn't know how privileged she is compared to American children.

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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Weird that Australians might have better access to cool cheap stuff now compared to Americans

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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

By the way, the council decided during this process that one of the carpark lots was just too important as a place to park cars to progress it for affordable housing

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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I'm sure it is just as feasible now as it was in 2020 for community housing providers to build this. Nothing ever changes financially or politically over a 5-6 year timeframe... participate.melbourne.vic.gov.au/victoria-str...

participate.melbourne.vic.gov.au

Affordable Housing at Victoria Street, West Melbourne

Council will lease 325 – 341 Victoria Street, West Melbourne, for affordable housing.

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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Oh good they have set up the next community consultation group in the FIVE YEAR LONG timeline to just get a PLANNING APPLICATION for affordable housing on a public car parking lot. This timeline does not include actually building the housing.

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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

They are all some of the safest new cars

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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Haven't looked at buying a car myself for years but have been seeing more and more Chinese brands on the street. Are Chinese cars the best value cars in Australia now?

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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

My instinct when I'm a pedestrian in this situation is that the ringing is telling me to move out of the way

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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I get that but when I'm a pedestrian the ringing always makes me feel like I should move

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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

If 2 are taking up space, or 1 is walking in the wrong part of the path, yes. But what is 1 is walking correctly and you just can't pass because bikes are coming the other way? I always wait because I feel like ringing the bell is rude in this situation?

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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

What's the correct cyclist etiquette on a shared bike/pedestrian path? I see a lot of cyclists ringing to get pedestrians to move, but that feels wrong to me? When I am on a bike, I always just go slowly behind people until I have room to pass.

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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Interesting how some areas are apparently still very high demand and low supply. Maybe we should allow more apartments there instead of just Box Hill and the CBD.

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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

We can only hope that AI will put agents out of a job

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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Larger landlords (eg corporations) would be better, I agree. But I would still want more quantity of large landlords as well

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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The landlord's agent is trying to schedule a pointless inspection next week. Yet, my desire to keep renting keeps these agents employed. Conflicting situation.

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Heritage: Why? @heritagewhy.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Landlords are very hateable, but as a renter I have to remind myself that I will only benefit if there are more landlords.

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