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Simon Kretschmer for Charles Sturt Council

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24.01.2022 Great news for local street lighting. I wrote to ETSA many weeks back about St Clair Avenue lighting in front of the new townhouses along the West end of the oval as well as Actil Avenue South. Some major works have been undertaken to get blocks of street lights working. I have also had discussions with the Department of Transport about the pedestrian crossing on Port Road outside of the Woodville Primary School . Recent line re-marking/painting of the area has greatly improved the visibility of this crossing.

23.01.2022 http://baytobirdwood.com.au/btb-2016/check-the-route

22.01.2022 What do you think of election posters on street poles? Like and share if your prefer them online, comment if you would like one front of your house. I think Woodville colours suit me.

21.01.2022 What are people's thoughts on this? I find it very inconsiderate. People pay big money to live near a park with a dog. Dogs are registered and to my knowledge there have been no dog attacks in the area. The park is empty most of the time. I will now be parking my 3 cars on the road on weekends so my dog and children have more room to run in the yard. Perhaps people who drive to the park, block the streets and find dogs annoying can go somewhere else too. Perhaps a new sports club somewhere else without the shipping container dumped on the grass and with adequate parking and facilities.

21.01.2022 DOG FREE AREA> Council plans to consult in a few weeks. What is there to consult on? Residential Open Space in a high density area is for residents, not 12 games of soccer at one time every weekend with 1000 people and 50 car parks run from a shipping container. Residents have a right to visitors, have birthday parties, family events, kick a ball, fly a kite with their children and dogs. The oval is not for exclusive soccer use. The streets are not for their monopoly control.... To imprison residents and confine them to their houses without visitors. The community has been poisoned by Council. No longer are people sitting under trees reading books, having picnics while dogs run around, Elderly people sitting on park benches throwing a ball for a lap-dog. The park is empty and barren for most hours of the day. It might as well be a bitumen parking lot at least if would get used. Evening and morning dog people would walk with joggers around with some safety in numbers. As the dogs have disappeared so have many other walkers/ runners and very few dare set foot on the sacred grass. Way to kill the Community Spirt City of Charles Sturt. I am aware of at least one couple who have now bought elsewhere citing car parking as a major issue and their disgust as owners of 2 dogs. This is no longer a place for dogs, no longer a place for children and no longer a place for families. What is there to consult on? By precedence most matters will not be resolved properly anyway. See more

20.01.2022 Last night St Clair won the 2014 UDIA excellence award for the best Master Planned Community!! (Urban Development Industry Association)

19.01.2022 Great to see Woodville North business Axis on board with this project. The World Heritage Listed Clipper is a significant piece of Australian migration history and engineering experimentation.

18.01.2022 Vote if you have not done so yet. Problem Areas do not get fixed with hidden micro cameras and fines, it makes them worse, oppressive. Changing the vibe of a street or area is possible. Street-scaping, lighting, street art and activities. A regular growers market at a nearby park can encourage neighbourly discussion, grow your own may turn a negative to a positive; fences can be chosen to look less like prison bars and spray walls; advice for landscaping for renters can reduce trashy yards; halls can be used by many groups, and a regular council hard waste collection can all help. If you have suggestions I would like to hear about them.

17.01.2022 St Clair has a new Mayor!

17.01.2022 On the 6th February 4:30-8:30pm Steve Waugh is returning to play in the annual St Clair Waugh in the West Twenty 20 Allstar cricket match. This is a free event ...so please come and join us. Food and drinks available for purchase. Located on the St Clair Oval. Call 131878 for info. Please share See more

16.01.2022 St Clair Stadium, tonight 08/04/2015. What a disgusting example of your re-elected members at work. We should be building a new stadium or renovating and extending the existing one, instead the adjacent land has been given away while the community assets fall apart.

16.01.2022 I have had people tell me they oppose two storey building, dense living, building near the railway station. Early settlers had better planning ideals with magnificent big buildings, castle-like towers (Brocas), railway lines, big trees (figs, pines, gums) in big reserves, massive brick feature warehouses (Pt Adelaide) and industry and jobs through Woodville & Woodville North, big ovals for sport (cricket & football), Stadiums, space for cars, bridges and overpasses, rail unde...rpass (Rosetta St) .Now: Lets carve up the Oval, put single storey buildings on it, with narrow streets, get rid of the car parks, convert the rail line to a tramway and cut down the big trees.when did it go wrong? The Ward is littered with failed industry, empty businesses, under developed areas, beautiful homes with flowering gardens next to abandoned homes and footpaths that are not usable. This is Council Business. In some areas they have failed miserably. Vote me in to get it sorted out. See more

16.01.2022 Back to school today. The school is 500m straight line from home, but due to lack of everything, except traffic lights, I need to ride or walk around the railway line at train stations or drive around an entire suburb! The walk or ride is not too bad, could be better. The round trip drive is about 4km with 9 sets of traffic lights, 3 railway crossings, 2 safety cameras and a high school. I dont care who is responsible, I just know I need to be voted in to start fixing this mess. A set of lights every 444m, a potential traffic hold up every 333m.

15.01.2022 I need to make a clear point because it has been a topic of discussion on the streets. The Emergency Service Levy is a State Government Levy, not a Local Government Levy. As a previous volunteer with the SES, I am aware of the mentality that ESL gives some the belief they can abuse the volunteers that they think get paid from the ESL. The rate of ESL is something residents will need to take up with the local State MPs Jay Weatherill and Michael Atkinson. I would like to hear about any flow on effects in the local area from the ESL increase. Does this effect your business, your ability to pay sport club fees, your local spending? Perhaps it will be of benefit at the next community event, a flood or storm? Let me know.

14.01.2022 Does St Clair have a parking problem due to poor facilities Check these next few posts for comparison. (1) St Clair soccer with a claim of 1000 active participants.and 47 car parks. (er...um... 47 is less than 1000 - I;ll give you 3 to a car so 47 is less than 333) St Clair Rec Centre one of the most used venues in the Western Districts with about 120

13.01.2022 Apparently shopping trollies are an issue. Instead of doing the Nanny State thing and punishing people for anything, like walking to and from the shops, lets embrace it and work with shops to set up a walk-home shopping trolley collection and encourage people to leave the car behind and walk to the shops. If you live in an apartment across the road from Coles, St Clair, or Arndale the easiest, simplest thing you could do would be to take the trolley home and return it to the shop or a suitable collection point. Why do some want to punish this? We need innovation.

13.01.2022 Headline in The Advertiser paper Cut speed limits to 30km/h for cyclist safety. Online discussions about average speed indicate decent riders 17mph (27.2km/hr), good riders 24mph (38.4km/hr) with one pro rider claiming close to 30mph (48km/hr). So 30km/hr would be a dud policy. Do you ride? What is your average speed? Hawker Street Brompton is 40km/hr leading into Barton Street North Adelaide that is restricted to cars. Brompton and North Adelaide are already set up for it 40 and 50km/hr traffic. If you want proper, thought-out policies, you need to vote for Simon Kretschmer.

13.01.2022 This morning St Clair has 2 new electrical boxes and a few less trees after yet another car crash on the bend of the oval next to the playground. Last year a light pole was knocked over at the same location. Last weekend there was a head-on collision on another sweeping curve of the oval. The black ute shown has been shunted backwards ripping the wheel off the car on the kerb. Council has been asked to address the parking and line marking. If you have had traffic problem please post them here. Help me get these ridiculous and obvious problems resolved.

13.01.2022 http://www.adelaidenow.com.au//a8de0565e8911a80271095dc779

12.01.2022 A steam train at Largs Bay. (source unknown). A horse & cart and steam train at Port Adelaide around 1857. The Outer Harbour line and Woodville Train Station were built around 1857. 170 years ago a level crossing and cement platform was fine. In 2015 when your elected members sell off St Clair keep in mind their intention to retain a level crossing, concrete platforms, tin buildings and wood sleepers while they load the area with 5000 new residents. It seem grossly inadequate and pretty poor deal to me. A gravel car park dust bowl , poor lighting, poor pedestrian access. Just plain sub-standard infrastructure. Demand a rail overpass , demand parking for 600 cars, demand a station upgrade. Demand access to both ends of the platform. Your elected members are giving you the worst deal possible. The long term problems will be immense.

12.01.2022 Have you seen the new single gateway that provides SA Community groups, clubs and volunteer organisations with online information about State Government grants? Read about it here: http://dpti.sa.gov.au/activeforlife/article?item=339

12.01.2022 If you wish to vote in the Council elections you must post by tomorrow so it is delivered by COB Friday. If things stay as they are the Woodville Ward will still see empty properties on Woodville Rd, Torrens Rd, Port Road and likely get a road through the middle of St Clair because no other candidate is talking about development to benefit the whole area. Others have a view of no to everything or yes to anything so the State Government will run it. VOTE NOW. Right now. Vote 1 for Simon Kretschmer and get knowledge and balance.

11.01.2022 I remember a time not long ago when there were people at this park at most hours of the day and night quietly going about their activity and acknowledging each other's presence. Walking dogs, having picnics, flying kites, sitting on seats, doing sprints, kicking balls with children, flying model planes. It took St Clair years and big money to build a community with Waugh on the West and community days to get people out onto their reserve and interacting. Since the Dog Free A...rea signs have gone up the community has died. The grass is too precious, the atmosphere uninviting. No one person wants to be seen out there on their own, the dog walkers have gone so their place feels like a ghost town to walk through. The occasional person with a dog dares to cross the precious soil with mans best friend seemingly expecting judgement from any passing council representative who seem all too willing to park trucks on it most days and turn it into their private work zone to the exclusion of all other people and creatures. On a clear sunny day there isnt even a bird in sight. Its a very strange feeling; an unpleasant feeling of emptiness and abandonment. What a sad and sorry outcome that would take years to repair even if residents were again granted unrestricted use of their open space. See more

11.01.2022 How much do I care about promoting the local community? National TV. The National Urban Planning Award winning suburb of St Clair. http://www.avjennings.com.au//St_Clair_-_Australias_Best_H

11.01.2022 Congratulations to the two incumbents retaining their seats in the Ward of Woodville. Hopefully they can work to address community issues that sees areas of zero and negative civic pride, of impassable footpaths, knee high grass, bashing victims dead in the street as we saw during the election period, derelict sites and vacant blocks on Woodville Rd, Port Rd, Torrens Rd, gravel weedy sites next to sporting facilities, major traffic issues that see a 70year old man walk faster... than the traffic for the length of Woodville Road, multiple crashes within the new St Clair Subdivision due to excessively poor access, multiple fatal accidents on Torrens Rd, gridlock on Cheltenham Pde, multiple accidents on Addison Rd, design issues around sport parking, train station parking, lack of open space, lack of development, lack of markets, lack of railway crossings, lack of safe routes to school. I hope they get Old St Clair Oval development right, because getting it wrong will jeopardise all future development on Woodville Rd for transport, traffic, open space, parking, stormwater management, business. The current St Clair proposal pushed by State Labor is disaster in the making (as per their unfinished Pt Adelaide development) and the continued push against the community needs will make it even harder for future large scale development to prosper. Councillor Grant will see out 31 years and Councillor Nguyen will see out 8 years of service. From what I have seen so far I hold out little hope of any improvement, the State Government wrongly has more control over local issues than the two of them. If I thought they were doing a good job, I and 6 other candidates would not have run against them. I accept that they have been elected as representatives for the community. I now expect them to step up and do the job properly, by properly, I mean a lot better than what they have been doing, because I really dont want to have to nominate next election, though I will if I have to. I realistically did not expect to get elected, my primary purpose was to raise a number of issues in the public realm and listen to rumours and opinions first hand. Im glad I had a go, because I felt there were some issues that could be improved. Now I know there are serious and sometimes simple problems that must be raised and addressed. Just how best to approach these problems for everyones benefit is for another time. Im happy to hear any thoughts or respond to questions. See more

09.01.2022 Underdown Soccer Club, City of Salisbury 3 top grade fields with top level lighting 194 car park spaces. Another project Ive worked with great people on. Dogs are fine. The new clubroom can host major events and cater for them - excellent community outcomes. (Ill get the club room comparison later). Does anyone think that 47 carparks for 12 games of soccer is acceptable? With clubrooms run from a shipping container in an area where residents are not allowed to walk a dog?

08.01.2022 Woodside, Adelaide Hills Council: 1 Oval, 4 soccer fields, 20 outdoor courts (St Clair has 8 to be removed with the $25 million upgrade proposing only 6 to be located on the Woodville High School grounds). .. On-site parking around 500 spaces (PS I did this parking layout 7 years ago) - 3 images... Dogs welcome.

07.01.2022 Mark the date in your diary... Sunday 25 October is St Clair's Family Fun Day! There will be a free BBQ, face painting, jumping castle, animal petting zoo, and much more. Join us from 12 noon until 3pm at Furlong Drive.

07.01.2022 A big push this weekend to finish delivery my 5000 flyers before the opportunity to vote begins on Monday. I have been out on the bike most nights for the past few weeks. 20 years ago I was riding the same streets on the same bike doing the paper round through Woodville, Woodville Park, Woodville North and Woodville South.

06.01.2022 The newly renovated Albert Park Railway Station on the Grange line. First stop after Woodville. Complete with 19 cameras with anti-theft spikes in the coldest most un-inviting galvanised-steel finish they could find. It is worse than a prison. It looks like it was design with hate and a complete disrespect for, and mistrust of local residents. I find it repulsive and offensive.

04.01.2022 I fully support business development proposals on Port Road. This site is next an AMF Bowls venue, empty land, a very large electrical substation, a car yard. 2 isolated residential properties back onto it. There are very few residential properties in this area and many front onto the railway line over looking industrial land. Port Road is a major road. It is exactly the correct place to be building businesses and very well suited to drive-thru style facilities. http://www.adelaidenow.com.au//39a7f211e4602b447d23ff16a95

04.01.2022 Gearing up for some serious work in a relaxed and sensible way.

03.01.2022 Close of counting, first preferences: Nguyen 1117, Grant 592, Lehman 472, Brown 305, Kretschmer 289, Cutler 124, Power 49, OCallaghan 41. We are so going to get another set of traffic lights and be left with abandoned properties on main roads. Nguyen and Grant will get back in, so expect more of the same.

02.01.2022 Barton Tce North Adelaide: Dont be fooled by promises to re-open this section of road to cars. I would like to see free access to all areas, however this would likely result in other traffic diversions within North Adelaide to divert traffic back to main roads regardless at considerable cost, this may be at the expense of other local community plans. I am happy to consider it, but this is a Trojan Horse. Do you have local traffic issues? Is your street a speedsters through road? Let me know. I design roads and traffic control, I understand the bigger picture and the cost.

01.01.2022 Ive seen many stories about interstate sport trips for local teams which got me thinking. If St Clair / Woodville Ward could get interstate soccer, tennis, cricket, basketball, netball, lacrosse, ten-pin bowling, table tennis, etcwhere would people stay? There are 3 churches on Woodville Road, but where is the nearest function centre to host a wedding part? Where is the nearest nice place for photos? When people from the country attend the Hospital, where do they stay? Where would they eat? Where would they park for 3 days? Where are the live music venues?