Dear Friends and Owners
of Unley,
Please enjoy the Autumn News, having survived last
week’s 41°C you may like to see the link on my new Mayoral Unley Facebook page
the link to the article, ‘We’re doomed’: Expert loses it over the jaw-dropping
image. https://www.facebook.com/MayorMichaelHewitsonAM
This new page
seeks to build our community with accurate information about things Unley. You
are welcome to join in to provide links to your story and events. Please ‘like’
or ‘follow’ the page to show your support.
On Monday
night our Council unanimously resolved to approve the submission to the
Parliamentary Inquiry to the Urban Forest: Parliamentary Urban Forest inquiry
Unley Council Submission. The link to my complementary submission is, Why we lose our trees,
$552,857.07 submission to Parliament Mayor.
This
newsletter contains the following stories
ROLE OF Council? Australians
want more from Councils or do we?
Unley loses $552,857
Unley Road Plans
Free Fringe events
Citizen of the year
Two more schools safe to cycle to.
LeCornu park needed.
Reformed smoker?
At the Council Meeting on Monday; with the Council vote I expect to result in spending the estimated $190,000 of Australian carbon credit shortfall to be Carbon neutral within Unley. This will actively reduce our Carbon emissions within Unley, but we would not be Carbon neutral until 2030. I hope we can achieve Carbon Zero by then! I have attached the motion and voting for this and the Tour Down Under motion and voting as a late press release. Go to the Mayor’s Facebook page where I will discuss the meeting and the 2023-4 budget.
With my
best wishes,
Michael
Mayor Michael Hewitson AM
Council’s submission to
the parliamentary inquiry into trees canopy can be found and to Council Planning Rules submission to
Ministerial review here.
- Every
Year we lose another 2 Unley ovals of trees and we have less than 200
across the whole city,
- A
once-off offset payment is a license to never plant trees.
- In four
years of accelerated planting Unley will run out of Council land, we need
to increase from 22% to 27% canopy on private property.
I have made a complementary submission as Mayor to highlight the lack of power the Council has to enforce even the weak current rules. and what we need to do, Mayor Planning Rules submission on trees to Ministerial review
