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Plans to clear footpaths of motorbikes
The City of Melbourne has flagged re-marking on-street car parks as motorbike spaces in an effort to alleviate clogged CBD footpaths.
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Services for rough sleepers overhauled
Grassroots homeless charities are to be linked with established housing services under a new City of Melbourne initiative to ensure well-intentioned goodwill is better harnessed in the city.
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“Fearless Girl” arrives amid fanfare, optimism and lawsuits
You may have noticed a bronze statue of a confident, wide-eyed young girl at Federation Square in the past month.
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Opposition grows over skinny tower proposal
Heritage and community groups are baffled that the Royal Society of Victoria (RSV) is pressing ahead with plans for an ultra-slim 60-storey tower on the CBD’s north-eastern corner.
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Cladding, short-stays and rooming
As evacuees trudged out of the CBD high-rise building that caught fire in February, the media stepped in to interview the victims of this alarming incident that has been blamed on combustible cladding.
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Towers targeted for takeovers
Apartment towers are facing takeovers by short-stay apartment operators able to turn them into quasi-hotels.
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A storm of pain is looming
The threat of short-stay operators taking over residential towers stems from a failure of government regulation.
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Calls to dob in drug dealers
Local police and the City of Melbourne on February 14 asked locals to dob in drug dealers.
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Fears lead to fewer fines
Melbourne councillors have been told almost $2 million in parking fines was not collected in the last quarter mainly because of “infringement officers requesting to be paired up over safety concerns”.
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Blender finds new lane for street art
The crew dubbed Melbourne’s “spiritual home” of street art has moved into a new abode near Flagstaff Gardens.
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Fringe in search of truth
New Local Government Minister announced
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