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1. Yet another high rise development and 14 storey proposal clearly not needed in Elsternwick considering what has been already been approved.
   I have a strong objection to any reduction in car parking spaces as already a very bad situation as it stands where spaces are at premium. It will also increase the congestion in Glenhuntley road enormously with pile up of traffic when trying to get across Nepean Hwy which already very bad at peak times and current short traffic light cycles.
   strongly oppose such big project and definitely no reduction in parking!!!

2. I agree totally with Erika Wils. In addition to that, I wish to state the following:

   What is it about the 'Elsternwick Village' concept that developers and council refuse to acknowledge? In my view, a 'village' encompasses a sense of community, belonging, family and the obvious rest. Where do multi-storey developments, constructed in the main by developers whose only interest is to get in, get out, and make the most profit in the shortest space in time, then disappear without accountability for the mayhem and loss of amenity they have created, fit into this so-called 'village' fabric? These edifices are generally too small to attract long-term owner-occupiers, opening them up, as can be demonstrated time after time, to transient, anonymous populations of short-term renters who have no real affinity for the 'village', other than a convenience factor. These occupants are more than less of a younger demographic, more often than not childless, and when they decide to become 'fertile', as it were, suddenly there is a palpable and clearly identifiable effort to vacate these tiny living spaces for 'something' more commensurate to the lifestyle demanded by a normal family environment; that is to say, a home with a yard, a garage so dad can play with his car and maybe even build or make 'something', and mum can move around in the yard with the children and so on. The 'family' and the village concept is the absolute last issue in the minds of developers of these multi-storey monstrosities, it's all about profit and clearly council is not immune to this culture because, where else is it possible to exchange one rate payment on a single block of land to multiples of rates from that same footprint, now containing a multi-storey nightmare? In due course councils and developers will be held to account for these awful developments in the wrong locations.

   Most Sincerely Yours,
   Lars T. Holden

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