Big city model urged for Adelaide City Council A suggestion Adelaide City Council should expand its area and make voting compulsory could set off fireworks. EXPANDING the City Council area and making voting compulsory should be considered to improve decision-making for Adelaide's future, former Town Hall CEO Stuart Moseley says. Mr Moseley told a History Month forum about the CBD last week that Adelaide was in desperate need of a new governance model. He said that the State Government would be "continually disappointed" if it expected councillors to govern for the greater good of the city when they were accountable only to its small ratepayer population Mr Moseley said councillors were caught in a system where the wants of 22,000 residents were more politically important than those of the 200,000-plus workers, shoppers, students and visitors who used the city daily. This had already led to the government stripping the council of planning control over large projects and allowing much taller CBD buildings, he said. To address the imbalance, Mr Moseley said, Adelaide should consider emulating the City of Sydney, which covers more than 20 inner suburbs and has compulsory voting. Adelaide also needed a much stronger vehicle for government-council co-operation than the Capital City Committee, he said. After leaving the council in 2008 to work for development firm Connor Holmes, Mr Moseley was a key member of the consultant team that produced the State Government's 30 Year Plan for Adelaide and last year became SA president of the Urban Development Institute. Property Council of SA executive director Nathan Paine said a City of Adelaide minister and department should take control of the CBD, while the council should take care of the basic municipal duties such as rubbish and dog registration. But Deputy Lord Mayor Michael Llewellyn-Smith said the council was already required by law to consider the needs of all city users. He suggested reviving the joint planning commission, equally split between council and government representatives, which oversaw the city's development for more than 20 years until 1993. A spokesman for State-Local Government Relations Minister Gail Gago said compulsory voting would be "fully explored" in a review of local government elections due after the 2014 polls. The government had no intention of changing the boundaries of the City Council, with which it had "a good working relationship," the spokesman said.