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Designs for a long-delayed east-west bikeway through the city will be signed off by the end of the year, with the Adelaide City Council rushing to get the $6 million project finished before a $3 million State Government funding offer expires.
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Lord Mayor Sandy Verschoor has called on the Adelaide City Council to support the proposed state heritage-listing of a King William Street art deco building that is at risk of demolition to make way for what could be one of Adelaide’s biggest office towers.
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Lord Mayor Sandy Verschoor wants to slash rates for city hotels and function centres and halve the rent for Central Market traders and council tenants to help the city rebound from COVID-19 – but some Adelaide City councillors have questioned whether the move is equitable.
Adelaide’s infamously slow free public WiFi network could be upgraded under a $1.8 million city council bid for a “high-performing and ubiquitous” new service powered by 10-Gigabit fibre.
State Opposition Leader Peter Malinauskas has called on the Adelaide City Council to rescind its “abhorrent and deplorable” decision to commission a legal review of the Hutt Street Centre, pledging to explore “all parliamentary options for intervention” if it fails to listen.
Cutting homelessness spending, delaying the completion of separated bikeways and shelving street upgrades are part of an Adelaide City Council plan to claw back over $24 million in the wake of a financial hit from COVID-19.
