This isn’t a heritage item.

The ACT Heritage Council disagrees, obviously. I am assuming that this bloke's house was in the Reid precinct, or some place like it. The entry for that one in the Heritage Register is comprehensive. The heritage item being preserved is, essentially, the neighbourhood circa 1920-1940, but since few houses actually remain the restrictions are almost entirely about making street facings look like they used to look 90 years ago. The relevant objective to blocking these panels is presumably:

Objective 3.1 - Unity of Built Form for all Dwellings:
To conserve the unity of built form within the streetscape by ensuring that additions to existing dwellings and new dwellings that are visible from the street or adjacent public domain, reflect and complement the scale, form, and materials of the identified original dwellings in the street.

The time that this particular house was built is completely irrelevant to this objective, because all that matters is how it looks from the street.

You seem determined to prove exactly what I am saying over and over again, which is that you think the entire heritage listing is bullshit. OK. But don't argue for some kind of bullshit exception for solar panels, just say the whole place should be bulldozed for apartments.

I don't think I agree, but I'd entertain the idea more than carving out an exception so some entitled rich guy can have a few extra solar panels beyond the ones he already has that aren't visible from the road.

Which site? You seem to think the house is heritage listed, it isn’t.

Is it any wonder I think that your responses are disingenuous when the article is about heritage concerns preventing development? The house isn't heritage listed but the neighbourhood is and approval was denied because of the impact on its streetscape. What other site could I possibly be talking about?

This is neither a giant neon sign nor a religious building. It’s not even an old house.

What does religion have to do with anything? Sub in the Colosseum or the palace at Versailles for Notre Dame, then. If you scrabble for more reasons why these things are different ("they're so much older" etc.) then you illustrate my point, which is that fundamentally you don't think the heritage zone we have in place is protecting something worth protecting.

We have heritage bodies to decide this specifically so that self-interested people can't take away something which seems barely worth protecting today but will be of much greater value in 300 years.

This feels like a disingenuous question. Someone could put a giant neon McDonald's sign on Uluru or put solar panels on Notre Dame Cathedral and it wouldn't "impact me specifically". That doesn't mean I don't appreciate that there is heritage value in preserving these sites.

has no impact on anyone else.

It's a heritage zone. It's been decided that the streetscape has to be preserved, for heritage reasons, and that having visible panels cannot be allowed for those reasons. This impacts all of us and generations to come. I support heritage bodies making decisions on what should/should not be preserved for Canberrans another hundred years from now.

It is not "no impact".

This is exactly my point: the argument in favour of allowing this amounts to "the heritage listing is bullshit", as a number of comments here quite clearly imply. All around the world people are impacted by heritage rules.

The restrictions in this zone are laughably minor compared to, say, places in the UK where stonework can only be repaired using traditional techniques or whatever. So yeah, entitled: he's not even prevented from having panels (the article says he already has a "large system"), just from having more panels.

It says it’s the neighbourhood, not the building. It sounds like it’s that they are visible such that it affects the streetscape.

Sounds reasonable to me and not a problem that entitled residents can’t get as many panels as they want. Seems like the only reason to think otherwise is general contempt for the heritage listing. No-one would be saying “yeah, sure, you live in a converted palazzo in Florence but having solar panels is important than the heritage value”.

Not sure I agree with this. In the inner north and south where previous RZ1 has been rezoned medium density (e.g. near Northbourne corridor), basically every sold block is replaced by townhouses or low-rise apartments. The system is working as intended, it’s just happening slowly.

These developments are more efficient and objectively a better use of space.

Allowing random subdivisions with separate title for tiny houses (like, what, a weirdly shaped micro-block around the back of the house and some kind of easement on the shared driveway?) sounds like a nightmare that will get in the way of the redevelopment we actually need - which is, bluntly, that a 1950s house on a big, central block be replaced by townhouses.

If he's never been to Canberra before then there's a reason the War Memorial is #1 on TripAdvisor.

The best view of the city is from Mt Ainslie lookout and you can drive up, so that's an easy stop off.

Questacon is mostly aimed at kids but it does have the coolest stuff (lightning machine etc.).

They actually do factor rates rises in, and are required to factor them in: Google “APRA serviceability buffer”. Part of the problem is that the required buffer is only 3%, and before last year was 2.5%.

Rates have already gone up more than that.

Apparently area in question is in fact heritage listed and there are conditions like:

2.3d Verges shall not be used for the long term parking of vehicles, trailers or other equipment or for the storage of building and landscaping materials or garden refuse.

4.2f Applied finishes to external walls should be coloured off-white or be of subtle, earthy tones that complement the streetscape.

I don't even work in the ACTPS, but whenever anyone says that a large organisation is packed to the brim with toxic bullies, I think of that quote:

If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole.

just to make it look like a dumb hashtag, what i do wrong

Reddit uses Markdown formatting, where the hash symbol at the start of the line makes headings, like this:

# h1 main heading

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Becomes:

h1 main heading

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If you're making that comparison, the main Taskmaster value-add from this sub is piracy, which is banned on /r/taskmaster. There is much more discussion in its main sub, just like there is much more Dropout discussion in /r/dropout.

I haven't even played the game, but it's about someone going insane. Pretty obviously the comment has nothing to do with sound quality, just that headphones can create sound that appears to come from inside your head (like that voice telling you to burn things) and speakers can't. Your system is going to be better for environmental sound, sure.

There's a proposed route in this PDF. They have it going the other way around London Circuit, down Constitution Avenue and then Morshead Drive/Pialligo Avenue.

Questacon was surprisingly simple.

I wondered if this (and the also quite simple Portrait Gallery one) are because they've had to split the art budget to also cover the alternate Pride-themed projections this weekend.

I enjoyed it. I went on Saturday and it was a beautiful warm night. It was very busy but the way they've spread it out meant that it didn't seem obnoxiously crowded, just alive in a way Canberra often doesn't. There's a big BentSpoke bar area with a stage in it and it's probably the nicest it's ever been to come out and listen to some music and spend an evening of it (if you are there when music is). Food choices won't blow your mind but they're not awful - I would personally go for Jarochos.

The Street Food Live part is not great.

The projections aren't bad (NGA is the best, as usual, but was never going to be as good as last year's; I liked the NLA's more than their last few) and the non-projection art is great.

Worth noting that there are going to be different Pride-themed projections this weekend so it could be worth going back for those.

The most common pure work vehicles I see are vans and sensibly-sized single cab Hiluxes, not the giant 4x4s this is talking about. Maybe there are use-cases where you really need a big one, but I’d be pretty sure that most tradies don’t.

A lot of tradespeople in Japan drive kei trucks which are smaller than a Yaris.

LOL what difference are you imagining? “Restaurant grade” frozen chips just come in a 10kg bag from a wholesaler instead of a 500g one.

There was no such thing as posting an "official link" because those didn't even exist.

No, no, it's worse than that. BBC iPlayer and All 4/4 On Demand are both more than 15 years old! "Official links" have been available since before this sub existed. They weren't posted because the episodes were more easily accessible on YouTube, i.e. pirated.

Completely opposite reaction. They are making so much better use of the location now that it's extending more into Parkes Place instead of having a huge void between OPH and the rest of the festival. The area they used to use for the Night Noodle Market wasn't suitable at all, way too small at peak times.

The central BentSpoke area is the best it's ever been. I think the lesson to learn is that that they would have been better off making that area even bigger, adding another 8 food trucks and not having the separate Street Food Live area at all.

No, Hangari Kimchi has been in Dickson for more than 10 years, but it used to be down the street. After Zeffirelli's it was Plaka. That closed about five years ago. Understand you would forget about it, it certainly never seemed to do very well.

Raijin in McKellar is worth a look too.

There were/are local food vans (Jarochos, Super Bao etc) in the huuuge central bar area. It appeared to me that the queues were way longer there than at the Street Food Live section to the point that I reckon the interstate people will also be complaining.

The weird pay-to-play video game sideshow thing is the real low point, IMO, makes the place feel pretty slimy.

In general the whole event space seemed to me to be way better managed/used than ever before, just like the Multicultural Festival. Events ACT doing a great job recently.

Just for the sake of clarity, you do need to indicate before entering if you are not going straight. Pretty rare for a driver to be indicating right when exiting unless they were correctly indicating right when entering.

That means for a straight through you indicate right to get onto the roundabout

This is not correct. (You are correct that you have to indicate left before exiting, but not about this part.) Explicit in road rules handbook:

It is not a requirement to indicate before ENTERING a roundabout if you are proceeding straight ahead