Nov 19 2020 32 mins 1
This week Aaron and John (No Pat Sorry) are joined on the mics by Mayor of Glenorchy, Kristie Johnstone, & the manager of City Strategy & Economic Development, Erin McGoldrick, to discuss their local city and the Greater Glenorchy Plan moving forward towards 2040.
Show Transcript:
Aaron Horne:
All right, everybody. Welcome back to the Property Pod, your accessible and easy way into the property market. I'm your host, Aaron Horne and I'm joined by my only real estate agent today, John McGregor.
John McGregor:
We have lost one.
Aaron Horne:
Yeah, what's going on?
John McGregor:
We have lost Pat Berry. I think he's just made room for the space.
Aaron Horne:
No, well to be honest, he's looking after his daughter.
John McGregor:
He is, yeah.
Aaron Horne:
Yeah, so Quinn's-
John McGregor:
He's got high priorities.
Aaron Horne:
Yes. Family trumps podcast today, but he did send his apologies and it actually turns out pretty well because we have a full deck in here anyway. We'd have to argue over who'd be on the mics.
John McGregor:
Yeah. I know. As I said, I seemed to have been making a lot of promises of people that have to reach out to, but I'm very excited for today.
Aaron Horne:
You've caught one of your big fish.
John McGregor:
Yes.
Aaron Horne:
Yeah.
John McGregor:
Big fish, two big fishes.
Aaron Horne:
Yes.
John McGregor:
Two big fishes.
Aaron Horne:
Yes. You've done very well. So today we're joined on the pod by the mayor of Glenorchy, Kristie Johnston and Erin McGoldrick, the manager of City Strategy & Economic Development.
John McGregor:
Yeah, because when I was looking through these reports, it's ridiculous the amount of work that's gone into it. But I think what I'm really excited by our leadership in the council at the moment is they're legitimately taking and doing work that's going to last long past their tenure.
Aaron Horne:
Yes.
John McGregor:
So looking 30, 40 years out from now and what that's going to look like for the greater plan of the whole municipality of Glenorchy.
Aaron Horne:
So this is the Greater Glenorchy Plan that you're talking about?
John McGregor:
Yeah, that's it. So it's available to everyone now, but I thought it'd be really exciting to get them in to actually talk about that from their perspective also too then, and how people can still get involved.
Aaron Horne:
Yeah. Cool. Excellent. What we might do is we'll cut away. We'll come back with our wonderful guests and we will be right into the thick of things with your big fish.
John McGregor:
Oh, yeah.
Aaron Horne:
Oh, yeah.
John McGregor:
Reel them in.
Aaron Horne:
Alrighty.
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Aaron Horne:
All right guys, we're back at the desk. We've got our big fish here. We've reached out our lure and we've caught the mayor and her... I got it right the first time. I was reading it, that's how I got it right.
Erin McGoldrick:
Her officer.
Aaron Horne:
Her officer. Manager of City Strategy & Economic Development.
Erin McGoldrick:
That's right.
Aaron Horne:
Erin McGoldrick and mayor of Glenorchy, Kristie Johnston. Welcome to the Property Pod.
Mayor Kristie Johnston:
Hello, it's lovely to be here.
Aaron Horne:
Thank you so much for coming in. It's really lovely to have some guests on here that we've been promised for so long and you guys probably wouldn't know, but John has been saying, "Oh, I can get Kristie. I can get Kristie."
Mayor Kristie Johnston:
He only had to ask once.
John McGregor:
I know.
Mayor Kristie Johnston:
Straight away.
John McGregor:
Well, I just sent you an email link, and here we are.
Aaron Horne:
Funnily enough, we've crossed paths walking our dogs down near Glenorchy Primary one time. And I was like, "What if John has asked? I might just ask myself."
Mayor Kristie Johnston:
You should've done. And then trumped him.
Aaron Horne:
Yeah, and be like, "John, I've caught your big fish." We just wanted to thank you first for coming in and discussing this Greater Glenorchy Plan. I looked over it last night. I didn't think it would be as interesting a read as it was when it's 80 pages or something like that. It's like, "Oh no, this is going to be a slug."
Mayor Kristie Johnston:
There's lots of pictures.
Aaron Horne:
Yeah. There's heaps of pictures, but there's heaps of really cool stuff in there. It's funny. My family home was in Claremont. I then lived in Moonah later in life, and then now I've bought in Glenorchy. So I've ticked off all the municipalities. I've collected all of Glenorchy.
Mayor Kristie Johnston:
You have? Well done.
John McGregor:
Well, I know it's the same. We're at Glenorchy and then my first house was in Claremont, now I'm back in Moonah. So we're doing a full loop here. So we're all Northern suburbs. What do they say? Born and bred.
Mayor Kristie Johnston:
Born and bred.
John McGregor:
Through and through.
Mayor Kristie Johnston:
Absolutely. Glenorchy people.
Aaron Horne:
I know one of the things that you really took out of it, John, I think you've actually been in an article in America or something about the flannelette curtain.
John McGregor:
Oh, yeah. Well that was always, I suppose, a running joke for us for a lot of times, isn't it? Well, that's a thing that even in the people you've interviewed, have brought that up themselves. It's obviously a colloquial term that all of us know, but anyone who's within the flannelette curtain now, just doesn't really perceive it that way.
John McGregor:
It's more so, it's shifted almost from a sense of where they would be shamed about the place I grew up with to actually now it's actually a real sense of strength.
Mayor Kristie Johnston:
Absolutely, and that's what the great Glenorchy plan is all about. We want to build a future for our community that looks like our community and feels like home to the people who live here. So the very first part of what we did was talk to our community about who are they? What are their values? What do we want to see in our community moving forward into 2040?
Mayor Kristie Johnston:
When I grew up, as I'm sure you guys did, the flannelette curtain was a real thing. The latte line, North Creek road, that was a really definite thing and things have changed si...
