Five Big Moves to Transform the City of Sydney
The City of Sydney is now making plans to ensure the achievement of the city all Sydney residents want by the year 2030. This plan is in response to the challenges of global warming, the rising oil prices, the declining housing affordability, population rise, and business growth and expansion.

With these five Big Moves are the strategic directions as well as hundreds of small steps that hopefully will transform Sydney to become the green, global, connected city of the 2030 vision.

What are these moves?
First, creating a revitalized Global Sydney City Centre, a lively, people-friendly global business centre reconnected to the Sydney Harbour.

Second, creating an integrated Inner Sydney transport network, which means new sustainable transport to help people get quickly and easily into and around the city. This transport network is to be linked to an improved public transport system to reduce congestion.

Third, creating a livable green network, which means attractive tree-lined streets connecting Sydney’s city parks in order for pedestrians and cyclists to safely experience and explore the city and its villages without endangering their lives and limbs.

Fourth, creating activity hubs as a focus for the city’s village communities and transport. These are community hubs where shops, cafes, markets, libraries, government services and employment are centrally located and within walking distance of every city resident.

Fifth, creating transformative development and sustainable renewal. This involves initiatives to make the city’s energy and water efficient, its housing affordable, its public space and design of high quality, with better access to essential transport choices.

Sustainability targets by the year 2030:
First, reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent compared to 1990 levels, and by 70 percent compared to 1990 levels by 2050.

Second, meeting up to 100 percent of the city’s energy demand and 10 percent of its water supply.

Third, creation of at least 132,000 dwellings (48,000 additional dwellings) in the city catering to an increased diversity of household types, including a greater share of families. In this vision, 7.5 percent of dwellings will be social housing, and 7.5 percent affordable housing delivered by not–for–profit housing providers.

Fourth, creating at least 465,000 jobs (97,000 additional jobs) with an increased share in sectors that reflect the city’s specializations such as finance, advanced business services, education, creative industries and tourism.

Fifth, public transport system for travel to work by city centre workers increased to 80 percent from the present, and the use of nonprivate vehicles by city residents for work trips increased also to 80 percent.

Sixth, at least 10 percent of trips made in the city will be by cycling and 50 percent of trips will be made by walking.

Seventh, every resident will be close to a main street with fresh food markets, childcare, health services and leisure, social, learning and cultural infrastructure, every resident will be within a three-minute walk (250 m) of continuous green links that connect to the Harbour Foreshore, Harbour Parklands, Moore and Centennial Parks or Sydney Park.

Eighth, the level of community cohesion and social capital will increase as measured by more than 45 percent of people believing that most people be can be trusted.

Sustainable Sydney 2030 is an initiative of the City of Sydney, developed in consultation with the community and a team of Sydney’s best minds in urban planning, architecture and design, and coordinated by the City of Sydney's internal strategy team and an expert consortiums, which include the following: SGS Economics and Planning; Simpson + Wilson; Kinesis; Anagram; Strategic Economics; Australia Street Company; Hill Thalis Architecture and Urban Projects; Lacoste Stevenson; Merrima Design; Tony Caro Architecture; Hassell; Neeson Murcutt; Olsson Associates; Peter McGregor; Bates Smart; Tonkin Zulaikha Greer; James Mather Delaney Designs; Francis Jones Morehen Thorpe; Geoff Anson Consulting; Neil Prosser; Anagram Studio and Johnson Pilton Walker.

Visit this website: http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/2030/default.asp