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Council Plan 2017-2021 Council Plan 2017-2021 Maroondah City Council Council Plan 2017-2021 Council Plan 2017-2021 2 MAROONDAH CITY COUNCIL - COUNCIL PLAN 2017-2021 Welcome to the Council Plan 2017-2021 The Council Plan 2017-2021 is Maroondah City Council’s medium-term strategic document that sets key directions and priority actions to work towards the long-term community vision outlined in Maroondah 2040: Our future together. The Council Plan plays a vital role in Each year, Council undertakes a revision of shaping Maroondah’s future over a four the four-year Council Plan. This helps to year period. It identifies both challenges ensure that the Council Plan continues to and opportunities for our community at be aligned with Maroondah 2040: Our local and regional levels within the context future together, and is responsive to of Maroondah 2040: Our future together. It emerging community needs and also forms the basis for Council to make aspirations. The annual review also helps to decisions regarding resources and priorities ensure that all Council service planning, in response to community needs and strategies, policies and processes take their aspirations. lead from the key directions outlined within the Council Plan. The Council Plan is implemented through a service delivery planning process, and outcomes are measured and reported regularly. Achievements are reported back to Council and the community through the Maroondah City Council Annual Report at the end of each financial year. Front cover - Ringwood Lake Park playground redevelopment consultation Inside front cover - One million stars display at Realm MAROONDAH CITY COUNCIL - COUNCIL PLAN 2017-2021 3 Council Plan 2017-2021 Contents Message from the Mayor and Chief Executive Officer 5 Maroondah at a glance 6 Our City 8 Our Council 13 Our Vision 20 Our Commitments 27 A safe healthy and active community 28 A prosperous and learning community 32 A vibrant and culturally rich community 36 A clean, green and sustainable community 40 An accessible and connected community 44 An attractive, thriving and well-built community 48 An inclusive and diverse community 52 A well governed and empowered community 56 Our integrated service delivery 60 Our priority actions 62 Our organisational scorecard 70 Strategic Resource Plan 72 Glossary of terms 90 4 MAROONDAH CITY COUNCIL - COUNCIL PLAN 2017-2021 Message from the Mayor and Chief Executive Officer On behalf of Maroondah City Council, we are pleased to present the Maroondah City Council Plan 2017-2021 to the Maroondah community. The community’s vision as outlined in Maroondah 2040: Our future together is the foundation from which Council shapes its long term plans for the municipality. Following extensive community and key stakeholder consultation this long term vision for the future of Maroondah was adopted in late 2014. This new four year Council Plan has been developed based on the community directions in Maroondah 2040 and a range of community consultation activities • Undertake a municipal wide review of undertaken in recent months. Council’s neighbourhood character and heritage controls; and finalise the The Council Plan plays a vital role in shaping Maroondah Vegetation Review the future for Maroondah over the next four • Work in partnership to implement years, and lists the major activities to be intersection improvement works at the undertaken to ensure the work and priorities corner of Maroondah Highway and set by Council align with the community’s Dorset Road in Croydon North. vision. It also highlights the key directions which underpin the planning and budget • Commence the Karralyka redevelopment blueprints for the Maroondah community. The Council Plan includes a Strategic The community aspirations and 74 priority Resource Plan which notes the linkages actions are grouped into eight broad between Council’s Strategic objectives and outcome areas providing the structure for the actions and service delivery to the Council Plan. Significant projects identified community. The Plan also documents the for delivery across the four years include: physical, human, and financial resources required by Council. • Complete the design, undertake operational readiness planning, and The years ahead are full of energy and construct the new HE Parker Multi Sports promise for Council and the community, as Complex in Heathmont we work together to create a City that will be an exciting and sustainable place to live, • Implement the Croydon Civic Masterplan work and visit. and commence the redevelopment of the precinct • Create a new Croydon Town Square and advocate for the grade separation of the level crossing at Coolstore Road, Croydon Cr Tony Dib JP Steve Kozlowski Mayor CEO MAROONDAH CITY COUNCIL - COUNCIL PLAN 2017-2021 5 Council Plan 2017-2021 Maroondah at a glance Maroondah is home to... 44,227 households 21 113,994 9000 neighbourhood businesses shopping people centres We provide... 133 3 playgrounds aquatic centres 3 2 skate parks golf courses 3 450 arts & cultural parks & centres reserves 2 48 libraries sporting ovals 6 MAROONDAH CITY COUNCIL - COUNCIL PLAN 2017-2021 767kms We maintain... of stormwater drainage pipes 28,000 signs 35kms 625kms of shared trails of footpaths 478kms 70,000 of local street trees roads MAROONDAH CITY COUNCIL - COUNCIL PLAN 2017-2021 7 Council Plan 2017-2021 Our City The City of Maroondah covers a land area of Our sustainable transport links continue to 61.4 square kilometres in Melbourne’s outer expand, with on-road cycling paths and east, 22 kilometres from the Central 35km of shared trails, including the Mullum Business District (CBD). The area is a Mullum Creek Trail, the EastLink Trail, substantially developed peri-urban Taralla Creek Trail and the Dandenong residential municipality, with an estimated Creek Trail. population of 113,944 residents and 44,227 households with an average of 2.58 people per household. The City of Maroondah includes the suburbs of Bayswater North, Croydon, Croydon Hills, Croydon North, Croydon South, Heathmont, Kilsyth South, Ringwood, Ringwood East, Ringwood North and Warranwood. The City also includes small sections of Kilsyth, Park Orchards, Vermont and Wonga Park. With little remaining land available for greenfield residential development, future population growth will be mainly stimulated by housing consolidation and medium density development. Maroondah has the strategic advantage of being located at the north-eastern junction of the Eastern Freeway - EastLink corridor. There are two train lines and a large number of bus routes linking the City with other regions. Location of the City of Maroondah Aerial view of Aquanation, looking south 8 MAROONDAH CITY COUNCIL - COUNCIL PLAN 2017-2021 Our history The first settlers to the area prior to The proclamation in 1924 of the Borough of European colonisation were the Wurundjeri Ringwood coincided with the electrification people of the Kulin nation approximately of the railway line, encouraging township 40,000 years ago. The territory of the development and subdivision. Electric trains Wurundjeri lies within the inner city of were in service between Ringwood and Melbourne and extends north to the Great Croydon in 1924 and were extended to Dividing Ranges, east to Mt Baw Baw, south Lilydale in 1925. to Mordialloc Creek and west to Werribee During its early days, Croydon was part of River. the Shire of Lillydale’s South-West Riding. European settlers arrived in the 1830’s and Unlike some neighbouring towns, it had not commenced using the land for grazing been planned and proclaimed a town by the cattle. The original Ringwood village Department of Crown Lands and Survey, emerged in the mid to late 19th century, but resulted from the private subdivision of following the initial sale of land and the crown land in the Parishes of Warrandyte, local proliferation of grazing, fruit growing, Mooroolbark and Ringwood. Severance of antimony mining and brick making Croydon from Lillydale Shire was requested activities. in 1957 since it was the most densely populated part of the Shire. The Shire of The first constructed road through the area Croydon was declared in 1961. led to Mount Dandenong and was known as Sawmill Road, then Oxford Road, then Considerable suburban expansion during finally given its current name of Mount the post-war period gave rise to the Dandenong Road. The area became better declaration of the City of Ringwood in 1960 known as it was used by bullock teams and formal recognition as part of the heading for the gold fields in Woods Point broader metropolitan region. Eastland was and the Great Dividing Range. established in 1967 as a major ‘new format’ retail centre. In 1971, the City of Croydon Location of the City of Maroondah The railway line from Melbourne was declared, reflecting increased commenced its eastward development in residential development and population 1861 extending to Lilydale through growth in this area. Ringwood and Croydon in December 1882. This resulted in a consolidation of township Maroondah City Council was formed on 15 facilities, including the provision of local December 1994 by the amalgamation of the churches, banks and schools to former Cities of Croydon and Ringwood, accommodate a growing population. The and parts of the former Shire of Lillydale line to Ferntree Gully followed soon and the former City of Doncaster and afterwards. Templestowe. The term ‘Maroondah’ is named after an aboriginal word meaning ’leaf’ which symbolises the green environment of the city. Aerial view of Aquanation, looking south MAROONDAH CITY COUNCIL - COUNCIL PLAN 2017-2021 9 Council Plan 2017-2021 Our community Maroondah has an estimated population of Burma, China, Malaysia, India, Thailand and 113,944 residents and 44,227 households Iran. Maroondah is now home to the largest with a similar age structure to the State’s Burmese community in Melbourne’s eastern average. region. Compared with metropolitan Melbourne, There is a strong sense of community Maroondah has a slightly higher proportion participation within Maroondah embodied of residents aged between 45 to 69 years by a large number of committed volunteers.
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