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Crossing the Parklands• Make crossings safer on ring roads around the Parklands to improve access.• Install more plantings and artworks in barren sections of the Parklands.• Pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure need to be designed using CPTED (CrimePrevention through Environmental Design) principles.• Paths heavily used by pedestrians and cyclists should be made wider, and perhapslanes marked, to avoid conflicts and possible accidents.The City of Adelaide• Activate the upper floors of Rundle Mall, providing work spaces and residences inorder to encourage 24-hour activity, making the area safer and more inviting.• Grenfell Street should become an exclusive, or near exclusive transit way or transitmall. Footpaths should be expanded by reclaiming at least one lane of road space tomake them wider.• Support the ongoing operations of Renew Adelaide, thus supporting Adelaide’screative entrepreneurs, and working with them to revitalise our urban environments.• Purchase new diesel-electric hybrid buses, thereby reducing the diesel particulatepollution and associated noise from degrading the pedestrian environment.• Footpaths must be expanded, safe biking corridors established, traffic calming devicesadopted, more safe crossings built for pedestrians, narrower streets established and‘Walk’ cycles lengthened at all signalised intersections.• Improve footpaths with the planting of trees and other vegetation, as well as theaddition of public art to make these areas where people want to live, to walk towork, walk to play and walk to shop.• Complete a CBD tram loop to further improve the level of accessibility around thecity, encourage more dense quality development and redevelopment, and make thecity much more active and livelier, in turn improving the liveability of the city.• Explore the establishment of a one-way street grid, allowing for much widerfootpaths, to determine if it will assist in making the CBD more pedestrian friendlywhile aiding the flow of traffic.Other communities throughout the greaterAdelaide region• Make every community throughout the greater Adelaide area more pedestrian andbike friendly• Foster the provision of high-value employment opportunities nearby which areaccessible by walking and biking.• Encourage creation of retail activities in these communities allowing for shops to beaccessed by foot and bike.4. Planning for highest quality developmentThe Premier and Cabinet should create an Urban Development Authority to undertake atleast five key tasks:• Develop a policy framework in which:• the costs for public infrastructure and amenities are evaluated• a determination is made of which public investments are appropriate• a system is devised that fairly allocates costs across a complex set of possibleinvestments and that provides the framework for how ongoing costs for thatinfrastructure will be allocated.• Conduct ongoing monitoring of decisions surrounding investments in infrastructureand the public realm, with the authority to step in and alter agreements that areinconsistent with The 30-Year Plan for Greater Adelaide.• Acquire and consolidate land holdings to permit the redevelopment of areas at a scalelarge enough to allow for the cost effective achievement of the goals of The 30-YearPlan for Greater Adelaide.• Ensure that all developments or redevelopments are of the highest quality, havingchoices suitable for different lifestyles and life stages, including affordable housing forpeople on moderate to low incomes.• Be able to stop, in extreme cases, a project that is about to proceed but is believed tofrustrate the achievement of future opportunities.5. Healthy communitiesThe 20-minute neighbourhood• Promote the 20-minute neighbourhood – one in which residents can get to most oftheir essential services or activities within 20 minutes by walking, biking or takingpublic transport.• Broad-based citizen advisory committees (CACs) should be established to determinewhat are the measures that should be included in what community members considerto be a walkable, bikeable, liveable, and sustainable neighbourhood.6. Community involvement• Sufficient resources must be devoted to the initial establishment of effectivecommunity involvement processes to make certain they are successful.• Community involvement should be structured so it is predictable to both thecommunity and government.• Proposers of projects should be required to engage the community to resolve issuesbefore they move into the formal government approval process.• A rule of thumb is that it is never too early to begin conversations with communitiesabout things that affect them.S U M M A R Y O F R E C O M M E N D A T I O N SXIIFRED HANSEN: ALL ON BOARDFRED HANSEN: ALL ON BOARDXIII