The pitch to voters in Melbourne's marginal sandbelt seats has reached new heights, or maybe lows, with proposed height limits on new houses.
Victorian Opposition Leader Matthew Guy says he wants to see residential construction limited to two storeys along the ultra marginal Port Phillip Bay electorates.
"The Labor government's plans to build skyrail along our bayside suburbs is placing huge pressure on our councils and planning schemes and indeed the residential amenity along our bayside suburbs," Mr Guy said on the hustings at Carrum on Thursday.
"We don't want to see overdevelopment along our bayside suburbs, we don't want high rise buildings heading right to the beach."
The eight-metre limit would be from the railway and Nepean highway, to the bay, between Mentone and Frankston.
The election promise impacts on the Labor-held marginal electorates of Mordialloc, Carrum and Frankston - all sitting on a margin between 0.5 per cent and 2.1 per cent.
Skyrail is being used by Labor in its signature level crossing removals program on several train lines but Mr Guy said the protection for the Frankston line was because the bay was one of Melbourne's "greatest assets".
Premier Daniel Andrews on Thursday pushed on with skyrail plans, announcing at suburban Pakenham a project that would remove four railway level crossings, making the entire line crossing-free.
"They're dangerous and they've got to go," he said.
The removals are a part of the first-term government's updated program to scrap 75 level crossings.
The Pakenham plan would create a large "super station" and allow Gippsland line trains to run more frequently, he said.
It's also a promise made in the electorate of Bass, held by Liberal Brian Paynter by a margin of 4.6 per cent.
As the Greens began campaigning in earnest on Thursday the minor party was hit by scandal.
Joanna Nilson, preselected behind leader Samantha Ratnam for the upper house Northern Metropolitan Region, resigned after it was revealed she posted about drugs and tips for stealing groceries and called Liberal MP Michaelia Cash a "disgusting smug parrot".
"I regret making these comments, and while they were made several years ago, in jest online, and are in no way reflective of my beliefs or actions, I don't want them to be a distraction," Ms Nilson said in a statement.
Ms Ratnam, who was in Carlton to unveil disability planning policies, said the party was disappointed.
She said the matter was a reminder that "everyone should be careful about their comments and acknowledge when you do anything on social media it's not private".
