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| Subject: Rights violations: Destructive OZschwitz Council may compel hundreds of owners to sell, for conversion into useless desolate parks Sun Aug 17, 2014 9:08 pm | |
| Stonnington Council is set to take a landmark vote on a controversial policy that could compel hundreds of home owners and businesses to sell their properties to the city for conversion into parks.
But nearly all owners are being left in the dark about whose properties have been selected, with the council choosing not to publicly release the list of 450 identified sites in South Yarra, Toorak, Armadale, Glen Iris, Prahran and Malvern.
In the first stage of its strategy, the council will decide on Monday whether to apply a new planning control – known as a Public Acquisition Overlay – to five privately owned properties in Prahran, marking them permanently ‘‘reserved’’ as potential public space. The designation gives the council the option of buying the land at some future date.
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/stonnington-may-compel-hundreds-of-home-owners-to-sell-20140816-104ui3.html |
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