Background
Housing Affordability in Australia has transformed into the focus point for urban planners in the past few years. In particular, South East Queensland (SEQ) has experienced pressure that is significant the need for property and affordable dwellings increases and population development in the location continues. The problem has arrived towards the forefront in discussions for local governments in your community and there’s a real have to address the issue of housing affordability. The topic of affordability is complex and is contributed to by a number of factors such as the impost produced by Council processes, which can be the scope of this HAF-T5 Project.
The necessity to reduce these imposts is a driver that is key continued improvement in Council processes to streamline the approval of housing related development applications. There is certainly a direct correlation between the expense of housing as well as the time it takes for Council approval to be obtained for a development. It will be the intention with this project to isolate the costs that are unnecessary, where possible, take them off through the assessment process.
Intent behind the Document
the objective of this document is always to provide a directory of the Council File Survey activity and inform the HAF-T5 project when it comes to council that is respective when you look at the HAF-T5 project.
This File Survey Report (FiSuR) is broken into four (4) key parts:
Part 1 – Key Council Statistics
• Quantitative Observations – including one of the keys statistical data obtained during the council file survey.
Part 2 – Council Observations
• Qualitative Observations – including the information that is key from staff interviews and information found on file during the Council File Survey.

Variation Control

When you’ve produced task folder, we have to manage to monitor exactly exactly how it changes as time passes and also to share it with collaborators. Though file-synchronization tools such as for instance Dropbox, Bing Drive, and OneDrive can be utilized for this task, they introduce large amount of additional upkeep expenses that people wish to avoid. As an example, it is extremely tough to collaborate utilizing such services— conflicting edits are usually used with choice and then whichever edits happened final, making it very easy to accidently lose edits that are important. Likewise, it is difficult to check a supply file and understand why a specific group of modifications was made, so that it’s once again too very easy to unintentionally undo edits from collaborators.

Consistent with the goals organized in the beginning of the post, then, we’ll adopt distributed version control as an instrument to allow collaboration and variation monitoring. In specific, we are going to utilize Git in no part that is small to its appeal, so that we could build down a big pair of community-developed tools and solutions. Git is an extremely helpful device in basic, so that we again avoid overly-specialized software infrastructure.

We won’t lie: there was a understanding curve to Git, in a way that initially it takes considerably much longer to do research supported by Git than by file-synchronization tools. In fairly order that is short nonetheless, learning Git will pay for itself both by avoiding typical pitfalls introduced by file-synchronization tools and also by supplying effective automation for other tasks away from synchronization model.