City Promotion
Promote Palmy and get people out of the mindset that it's a boring place. My partner moved here from Wellington to the disgust of many people questioning her decision. This is the perception of many people outside (and many inside) the city. You just need to go to one of the many free events and festivals held every year to know this isnt true. But more can always be done! How about attracting some world class events (agricultural/ student based/ military)?
City Beautification
Huge amounts of money have been spent to spruce up the CBD, which includes our newly developed Square. Agree with it or not, it's there, but if you walk around on a Friday/Sat/Sunday morning with your family you'll be greeted with litter, vomit, and urine. Not a good look for our city. Where has the city pride gone? "Lets get the basics right first"
Enforcing litter fines, and promoting Adopt-a-roadway campaigns. The clean, green image we'd like to portray as a nation is being swept aside due to lack of morals and respect for our environment.
Encourage more recyling by providing color coded wheelie bins to seperate materials (such as those found in Melbourne).I fully support the user pays system. Our landfill costs have gone up dramatically, and we have a magnificent new recycling facility to help curb our wastes - lets use it and promote it even more than we are now.
Continuation of CBD redevelopment, to make our city appear attractive and alive
City Safety
Lobby Central Government to increase the Police on the Streets - they're doing a great job, there's just not enough of them.
Promote Palmy and get people out of the mindset that it's a boring place. My partner moved here from Wellington to the disgust of many people questioning her decision. This is the perception of many people outside (and many inside) the city. You just need to go to one of the many free events and festivals held every year to know this isnt true. But more can always be done! How about attracting some world class events (agricultural/ student based/ military)?
City Beautification
Huge amounts of money have been spent to spruce up the CBD, which includes our newly developed Square. Agree with it or not, it's there, but if you walk around on a Friday/Sat/Sunday morning with your family you'll be greeted with litter, vomit, and urine. Not a good look for our city. Where has the city pride gone? "Lets get the basics right first"
Enforcing litter fines, and promoting Adopt-a-roadway campaigns. The clean, green image we'd like to portray as a nation is being swept aside due to lack of morals and respect for our environment.
Encourage more recyling by providing color coded wheelie bins to seperate materials (such as those found in Melbourne).I fully support the user pays system. Our landfill costs have gone up dramatically, and we have a magnificent new recycling facility to help curb our wastes - lets use it and promote it even more than we are now.
Continuation of CBD redevelopment, to make our city appear attractive and alive
City Safety
Lobby Central Government to increase the Police on the Streets - they're doing a great job, there's just not enough of them.
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2 comments:
Litter: My business is downtown and I often have new flat dwellers nearby who pile up black plastic bags of trash. Once I tore one open to see if there was anything in there that could ID who was dumping outside my door. I found nothing with a name on it but amazingly 90% of the contents were recyclable. All new students of any tertiary institution should have an orientation session to explain to them that: yes, they are now free of parental influence, and no, they can't abuse our city. We need to DRILL it into them that leaving all their furniture and rubbish on the kerb on the last day of classes IS NOT COOL. Then we need to publicly shame and fine these people by finding out who left the trash through detective work.
I agree that litter is an infection on our streets. I also agree that we need to be fining people caught littering. I think the best way to "drill" into them not to mess up our city is to focus on promoting a sense of pride. Students tend to feel like transients for want of a better word. If this is a city they can see themselves living in after they graduate, they are much less likely to be so careless. Not so sure about the public shaming, tends to make people bitter more than half the time, but everyone will have a different view on that. Have you approached the people living in the flats near your bussiness? Also, hopefully you repacked the bag you tore up so it didnt spread litter around the street! As for recycling, it needs to be pushed harder by Council as an option, and made easier to do by the provision of proper recepticles, not just plastic shopping bags.
Thanks
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