Community

Showing 81 to 100 of 508 results for q=community

  • Image of various community members completing surveys at pop-up event at Edinburgh Gardens

    Hitting the streets to shape Yarra's future

    Huge turnout for community vision engagement Residents, businesses and visitors have turned out in droves to share their ideas, aspirations and vision for the future during stage one of Yarra’s new community vision. Between November 2020 and January 2021, 1,275 residents, businesses and visitors provided their feedback to the project. Of these people, 44% spoke to us in-person at one of our pop-up events held across Yarra, and 56% engaged online via our Your Say Yarra website. The community vision will guide our planning in Yarra over the next 15 years, as we face challenges like a changing climate and growing population. It was fantastic to see young people so actively engaged in the process, with more 26 to 35-year-olds participating than any other age bracket. We also heard loud and clear from our culturally and linguistically diverse communities, with 20% of people speaking a language other than English at home. The consultation explored five themes important to what kind of future we want for Yarra: • Resilience – what makes a great community in the face of uncertainty? • Our people – how do we make sure we look after everyone in our community? • Spaces and places – who uses council’s buildings and assets now and in 2035? • Sharing our streets – how do we create streets for everyone? • We're different – how do we protect our diverse economy and community? Next steps The feedback collected from the broader community will be considered by a randomly selected panel of residents later this year, who will work together to create the community vision. You’ll be able to read more about the findings of stage one in the coming weeks and months. Visit the project site at yoursayyarra.com.au/future, or sign up for our Yarra Life e-news at yarracity.vic.gov.au/news to stay in the loop!
  • Image of a cafe on Swan Street with dining tables and chairs on footpath

    We're revitalising Swan Street

    We want to hear your ideas on how we can make Richmond's Swan Street an even better place to visit, work and live. Help us create a new streetscape masterplan for the area by sharing your ideas at yoursayyarra.com.au/swanstreet The plan will look at improving things like footpaths, trees and landscaping, outdoor dining and seating, public art, and pedestrian accessibility and safety. The streetscape masterplan will aim to: • design high quality streetscapes and public spaces that are welcoming, fit for purpose, attractive, flexible, accessible, safe and long-lasting. • provide well considered design solutions that contribute to an area’s character, sense of place and identity. • make sure our designs are future proof, and will consider any other future projects (including those that we don't manage, like tram stop improvements). It won't look at changing private land, the actual road/traffic space of Swan Street, or nearby public transport stops and stations. Have your say before 5pm on Wednesday 12 May 2021 – there's no idea too big or small!

  • Yarra’s vision in view: resident panel to plan for our future

    Yarra’s vision in view: resident panel to plan for a brighter future A representative community panel of 60 locals is set to meet this Thursday for the first of four workshops, bringing the City of Yarra one step closer to its first-ever community vision. The community vision will guide decision making about Yarra’s services and projects for the next 15 years, including its next four-year Council Plan. The community panel strongly reflects Yarra’s diverse community, with people from all walks of life to share their life experiences and views with each other. The first session will bring panellists together for a meet and greet, and to get to know their important task ahead. In the following sessions, they will share information and get to understand Yarra’s challenges. The panel will work together to draft their vision, and finally identify the priorities to achieve the vision. To respect the time and effort of the panel, Yarra Council has committed to receiving the community vision and adopting it as the panel provides it. The community panel builds upon extensive engagement with the broader Yarra community from November 2020 to January 2021. During this stage we heard from over 1,300 residents, businesses and visitors. Their feedback has also informed our proposed budget 2021/22, which is available for comment until Friday 21 May 2021. To stay in the know about Yarra’s community vision, visit yoursayyarra.com.au/future

  • Exploring our vision: round two of our resident panel discussions

    EXPLORING OUR VISION: ROUND 2 OF OUR RESIDENT PANEL DISCUSSIONS A representative community panel of 60 locals met last Saturday for the second of four workshops, bringing Yarra even closer to its first-ever community vision. This session saw the panellists share and discuss common values. They identified key themes that underpin their aspirations for Yarra’s future, and started drafting statements to describe the themes. These themes and statements will form a major part of the overall vision, which will guide decision making for Yarra’s services and projects for the next 15 years – including our next four-year Council Plan. Check out this recap listen to some of the panellists explain what Yarra and their participation in our vision means to them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR1JK_PTzzs The community panel strongly reflects Yarra’s diverse community, with people from all walks of life sharing their life experiences and views with each other. It builds upon extensive engagement with the broader Yarra community from November 2020 to January 2021. During this stage we heard from over 1,300 residents, businesses and visitors. Their feedback has also informed our proposed budget 2021/22, which is available for comment until Friday 21 May 2021. To stay in the know about Yarra’s community vision, visit Your Say Yarra.