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What do you think of the draft Greening Port Phillip vision for the future?
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Council's vision for the future is:
"The City of Port Phillip will have a healthy and diverse urban forest that uses innovative greening solutions to enhance the community's daily experience, ensuring environmental, economic, cultural and social sustainability for future generations".
An urban forest is defined as the sum total of all trees and associated vegetation growing within an urban area.
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Comment 1 20 May 2010, 8:30 PM
Dear PPCC,
Please consider the following feedback for consideration / amendment of the Greening Port Phillip draft document.
Pg 4. Measuring our success. Please include as an indicator total park area. There has been a steady decline in Park area with spaces consumed by activities such as Yarra Trams extension with no local replacement of equivalent park area. Each year it is ebbed away until minimal quantities will remain. More parks of course means more space for trees.
pg 8. Open spaces, paragraph two incorrectly states there is limited opportunity for expanding open space with increasing population. Port Melbourne has an abundance more…
Comment 2 23 May 2010, 9:42 PM
Fantastic strategy, and great website. I agree with the strategy, especially around creating more 'open spaces'. And through better collaboration with the public, such as through this website, we might now begin to fill some 'missed' gaps.
For example, there is a current Port Phillip Council plan to build a new bike lane along Beaconsfield Parade (between Langridge and Mary streets).
Whilst this is a great plan, which will remove one lane from the road and introduce wider nature strips and hence more 'green', the plan has missed a fundamental issue - the unsightly and unnecessary power lines and poles along more…
