By JESSE GRAHAM
WHY do you live, work and play in the Yarra Ranges?
The Yarra Ranges Council has put out a survey to ask residents and visitors what they think is special or unique about the Yarra Valley and Dandenongs.
On the council’s website, visitors are asked to list their reasons for wanting to live, work and play in the area.
The council aims to collect 3000 responses, which will shape council’s advocacy for infrastructure improvements from the state and federal governments.
Yarra Ranges Mayor Jason Callanan said the survey was “really important”, in helping to determine where ratepayers’ money went.
“There’s no agenda to do anything different, if the public don’t want it – there’s no point building something or knocking something down, if we’ve got people out there that value that infrastructure or that environment,” he said.
He said responses could be as elaborate or as simple as the writers’ wanted.
“We really want to see what people value about living, working and playing in this space,” Cr Callanan said.
“It can be just one line; it can just be one word.
“If people can just take a short couple of minutes to respond to the survey, it helps us here immensely on ‘how do we direct that money?’”
The survey can be found at www.yarraranges.vic.gov.au, and clicking on “latest news”, or by visiting bit.ly/1Qbkwnw (case sensitive).
