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Those were the days... MORNINGTON comes alive this month for the 150th anniversary of its official government recognition as a township. Graziers and farmers started to settle the area in the 1830s and a shop was built at Schnapper Point, the original name for Mornington, in 1852 and land sales followed. A hotel was built beside Tanti Creek near what is how the Nepean Hwy in about 1856 and the settlement began to develop around the pier. Boat was the best way of travelling as tracks were often impassable due to bad weather. Celebrations are being held throughout the month. Many groups have organised events, a reflection of the town’s continuing strong community spirit. Turn to page 5 for a list of happenings. Port of call: A State Library of Victoria photograph of Mornington’s pier in the early part of the 1900s.
Shire gay fence win By Mike Hast NORMAN Lodge owner Charles Jacobsen has lost his battle to build a fence in line with the front of his beach house on Sunnyside Beach North. The so-called “gay fence� issue raised the ire of conservationists and homosexual lobby groups earlier this year when Mr Jacobsen told Mornington Peninsula Shire councillors he wanted to build a 1.8-metre high chainlink fence to keep people off a coastal reserve. Erecting the new fence would have
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meant the loss of vegetation. The Mt Eliza millionaire said in February the fence would preserve future regeneration work and stop homosexuals engaging in “illegal and antisocial behavior� in scrub between the existing old fence and the beach. After a March meeting of the council, Mr Jacobsen said he regretted making the homosexuals remark and wished he had said sex acts by heterosexuals and homosexuals. “Some of my best friends are homosexuals; I am not anti-gay,� he said after the meeting
Last month the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal dismissed Mr Jacobsen’s challenge of a shire decision for a new fence in the same position as an old one on the beach side of the southern reserve. He wanted the fence closer to the water. The tribunal also supported the council’s decision to permit a 1.2-metre high fence across the beach side of the northern reserve. Mr Jacobsen wanted a 1.8-metre high fence. Mr Jacobsen gave the shire the two reserves, which are either side of his
beach house, formerly owned by Sir Reg Ansett, as part of a deal to allow him to build two new homes on Norman Lodge estate. The millionaire was also in the VCAT arguing that the shire should pay half of the cost of revegetating the two reserves over 10 years. In March, councillors said Mr Jacobsen should pay the full cost of revegetating the reserve -- $442,420. Mr Jacobsen distributed 6500 copies of a pamphlet to Mt Eliza’s 16,000 residents in 2007 saying he would pay for
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the revegetation when first applying for the boundary realignment to build four houses for his children. The shire cut the four home sites back to two. In its decision last month, the VCAT said Mr Jacobsen and the shire must negotiate the cost of the work in the reserves or come back to the tribunal next January. The shire was suppported at the tribunal hearing by Mt Eliza Action Group, which was an original objector to the Norman Lodge estate carve-up.
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