Uh, what does all this have to do with OSM? On Sat, 21 Sep 2019 at 21:08, Herbert.Remi via Talk-au < [email protected]> wrote:
> Three rules for OSM planning in Canberra > **Rule 1: In Australian Communist Territory everything is owned by the > government, > Rule 2: everything is controlled by the government and > Rule 3: nothing happens without the government know about it.** > If you want to know why read on. > (note: **text** is markdown and this would be in bold if the forum was on > GitHub.) > > I live in Canberra, the Australian Communist Territory, where we all work > for the Federal Government and don’t do anything useful. At least that is > what the Australian press and politicians would lead you to believe. > Canberrans disagree, “if you worked for these politicians you wouldn’t vote > for them.” It is a bit like you sending us your inlaws, they are not > welcome. As for the press, well, what do they know about Canberra. There is > a great deal of misinformation about the ACT and this is obvious when > Canberrans talk with visitors, “It’s part of NSW, isn’t it? It is certainly > in NSW?” Well, we are not ruled by Sydney but certainly, we are ruled by > the Federal Government. > If you find me a bit sceptical about outsiders ability to understand the > ACT, then that’s because you have never spoken about Canberra with my > family. So first I will clear up a few basic facts about Canberra, then I > will tell you where all the money comes from, and finally, I will explain > why nothing happens in Canberra with the ACT Government knowing about it. > In the Australian Communist Territory, you better pay attention to the > Five-Year Plan. > **Some basic facts** > Firstly, until this year most of the population worked for the government > (ACT or Federal). Now just over 50% are employed outside the government. It > is not true that all the Federal public servants work in Canberra, about > 50% do but over 30% work in Sydney and Melbourne, and about 16% work in > rural Australia. Canberra is the bush capital. I read somewhere that 30% of > the Federal government employees work for defence: biggest budget, most > employees, $50 billion for subs, the biggest everything. It is not true > that the Australian Public Service is particularly big either. The > Australian Public Service is only a third the size of the NSW public > service. Most Canberrans were not born in Canberra, they either immigrated > to the country or Canberra from Melbourne, Sydney or rural NSW (or > Queanbeyan for that matter). > **How does the ACT work?** > We are not a state but a territory, which means that we don’t have the > autonomy of the state. Canberra is like Rome with another autonomous > territory with the city. Our Vatican City is called the Capital Planning > Authority. The Capital Planning Authority still controls everything in the > Parliamentary Triangle but also has regulatory oversight of any > developments in the ACT within 200m from major thoroughfares around it. The > ACT government is responsible for planning in the rest of the ACT, except > military areas, of which there are many. For reasons of prudence the ACT > planning is done in such a way that it does not conflict with the Capital > Planning Authority. A difference is that the Capital Planning Authority is > prescribed to build in a “premium quality” so that it looks special. > **How is development in the ACT funded?** > With the federation of Australia, the Commonwealth purchased three large > farms and then a bit (Hall), but unfortunately, not Queanbeyan. All land > then belonged to the Commonwealth Government and that is how it is until > this day. If you “buy” a house in Canberra, you have a 99-year lease on the > land on which it stands. After that, it would in principle go back to the > ACT government. (Rule1: In Australian Communist Territory everything is > owned by the government.) This is unlikely to happen to a house, but > investors have been caught out purchasing a site for retail development and > then have done nothing with it to discover they were threatened by the ACT > government with lose of the lease unless they finished the job. The most > important sources for ACT revenue are land tax, payroll tax, Federal > Government (CHOGM) funding and most importantly LAND SALES. Yes, the ACT > Government is the real estate developer in the ACT. (Rule 3: nothing > happens without the government know about it.) All suburbs and Canberra are > planned and developed by the ACT Government and I know only one exception – > Ginninderry. (Rule 2: everything is controlled by the government). When the > ACT Government is short of money it develops another suburb with a few > thousand houses and sells them off in an auction, where each block can get > up to almost $850,000 and the whole suburb is sold off in hours. (I think > in Molonglo Valley the whole suburb was sold off in just 6 hours.) To top > that all off, demand outstrips supply. Luckily with our benevolent > dictatorships, this Mafia structure works well. > **Building a city** > If you were an engineer or urban planner, you would love Canberra. The > Australian Communist Territory is a planned economy and the ACT Government > has plans for everything. The ACT Government has standards how everything > is to be built, designs all sections of the city to those standards often > using templates, contracts the construction of the plans to industry, > before then resuming all the assets back to government control and selling > the land in lots to individuals and builders. The ACT government provides > all this information for what it is planning on government portals and > provides mapping tools that allow you to visualise all routes, roads, > paths, infrastructure, and zoning. > I will describe specifically where you find this information and mapping > tools in the next post, before venturing to a concrete task that we need to > undertake on OSM. > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au >
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