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Here’s the PETITION. Get EVERYONE of your friends and neighbours – every resident in your building – to sign it!
The CEO of the City of Sydney has taken an official stance: Council will not respond to correspondence on this issue.
Lord Mayor Clover Moore writes: “It is important to note the City advocates for a state-wide approach, reflecting the views of community members, platform owners, tourist and visitor accommodation operators and investors.”
This is a 380 degree back flip and is a recommendation affecting every NSW Resident, not just those in the City of Sydney.
Can we identify just one – one – “community member” who has been consulted by Ms Moore and the City? Anyone from Sydney? Anyone across the State?
The NSW Police in Byron are operating under conditions they describe as a ‘war zone’, Byron’s mayor is putting pop-up housing to house residents priced out of housing, the homeless folks down in Nowra are told to move up into the caves, the highest ever levels tenant evictions and homelessness, the low-paid workers of Sydney sleeping rough in their cars? We’ve got record levels of homeless right across the State.
Airbnb reportedly spent USD8 million in San Francisco lobbying city officials. Can we know if any members of Council or State Parliament have received donations from the short-term platform owners?
You can ask questions but, officially, Council will not answer you.
Here’s another great quote (and see the video): “Zoning Laws are only as good as the enforcement behind them. If you don’t enforce, what’s the good of having them on the books? It comes down to trust in Public Officials to enforce the laws…because if they won’t enforce, they might as well not be there.”
Very, very, very angry Clover Moore/Monica Barone/City of Sydney. Will we be adding the NSW Parliament to this?