Presentation by Andrew Kelly, Yarra Riverkeeper Is the document too - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Presentation by Andrew Kelly, Yarra Riverkeeper

Our Yarra: healthy, protected and loved

Is the document too complex?

The Act was an Act of a Plan

From the Yarra River Protection (Willip-gin Birrarung murron) Act

Our Yarra: healthy, protected and loved

Draft Yarra Strategic Plan Part 1

Our Yarra: healthy, protected and loved

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Modern governance

Does the Draft show how collaboration and coordination will ll deliver better outcomes for the Yarra Corridor?

In order to implement the Yarra Strategic Plan, the Yarra Collaboration Committee has decided that we need to embed long-term change in the way government agencies and councils work together in the Yarra River corridor. To embed collaborative management of the Yarra River corridor, the plan proposes four changes to be implemented over the next 10 years:

• 1. There is continued commitment of the Yarra Collaboration Committee to oversee

rolling three-yearly implementation plans and ensure whole-of government decision-making for Yarra River lands.

• 2. There is commitment to coordinated investment decisions on Yarra River land.
• 3. All stakeholders, including the community, are involved in taking care of the

river.

• 4. Government agencies and Traditional Owners are supported in

their transition to deliver on the 50 Year Community Vision and the Birrarung Water Policy.

Page 43 – Draft Yarra Strategic Plan

20 Contents of Yarra Strategic Plan (2) In addition, a Yarra Strategic Plan must— (c) contain performance objectives for waterway health, river parklands amenity, landscape amenity and environmental, cultural and heritage values to be achieved over a specified period in relation to Yarra River land;

Yarra/Birrarung Act

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Gaps?

Quest stion: : How would you know if you had achieved the Performance Objectives after the 10 years (that is in 2030)? How do they then form the foundation of a 50 year plan? Are they SMART goals? Page 15

Reference the State of the Yarra Report in the Strategic Plan

Missing from the YSP - GAPs

Caring for Country is looking after biodiversity. Culture and biodiversity are

• intertwined. Maintaining of

ecological integrity is Caring for Country.

OVERLAYS

Caring for Country is looking after biodiversity. Culture and biodiversity are intertwined

Caring for Country is looking after biodiversity. Culture and biodiversity are intertwined

Our Yarra: healthy, protected and loved

If $80 million invested then say at 10% $8 million for the environment as net gain.

Our Yarra: healthy, protected and loved

Draft Yarra Strategic Plan Part 2 Most content Still unclear as to how the intended outcomes are going to be put into the planning schemes

Our Yarra: healthy, protected and loved

Annual assessment of implementation

• f Performance Objective 2 – a

culturally diverse river corridor— to be paid for by each entity to the Wurundjeri Woi wurrung Tribe Land Council.

Our Yarra: healthy, protected and loved

Draft Yarra Strategic Plan Part 2

Our Yarra: healthy, protected and loved

Draft Yarra Strategic Plan Part 1

Our Yarra: healthy, protected and loved

Draft Yarra Strategic Plan Part 2

How

will the content be included in the planning schemes? How is it to be included in each council’s planning scheme? How are the ‘Directions for land use and development’ to unfold over time? (Problem with the plan in general is that it does not articulate how cumulative actions over time are to unfold along the Yarra?)

Our Yarra: healthy, protected and loved

Draft Yarra Strategic Plan Part 2

How

will the Land use Framework confront the issues of urbanization, especially the expansion of impermeable surfaces, and climate change OVER TIME, over the the 10- year period? How will it address the 50 year period? We need climate change scenarios included to inform the report and the Land Use Framework.

Our Yarra: healthy, protected and loved

Draft Yarra Strategic Plan Part 2

Contradiction between improving access and improving quality of habitat! Key biodiversity threats fragmentation and disturbance. Explicitly set aside protected areas in the Planning Schemes!

Our Yarra: healthy, protected and loved

Draft Yarra Strategic Plan Part 2 Key question from the list on the engagement site:

Our Yarra: healthy, protected and loved

Draft Yarra Strategic Plan Part 2 Include ‘NET Gain for the environment’ in Planning schemes

Our Yarra: healthy, protected and loved

Greater Yarra Urban Parklands

GYUP

Give expression to the GYUP in the Planning Schemes?