Posts by Sacha
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Property Council blasts councillors for opposing a properly-intensified city.
Auckland Branch President Phil Eaton says soaring house prices are creating systemic social injustice, inequity and major economic risk.
“Let’s be absolutely clear about this. The councillors who have withdrawn their support to rezone and upzone suburbs to allow for more houses have done so at the expense of Aucklanders, because they want to come back after the local elections.
...Scaremongering by local politicians has residents believing their suburbs will be covered in high-rise apartments, when realistically less than 6% of suburbs will have apartments with more than three storeys: up just 1% from the previous version of the PAUP.
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Denial of any influence by the Herald.
It is too easy to panic politicians in election year, particularly in local body elections where the turnouts are usually low. It is easy to fill a public hall on local issues that are close to people's homes and may affect their property values, and it is easy for individual politicians to be persuaded that a packed hall represents a popular uprising.
...Plenty of us live next door to a double storey house without concern. But one more storey has the citizens in revolt, or so too many council members fear.
Let's acknowledge the courage of those who are willing to defend the revised Unitary Plan and see it through.
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Speaker: Correcting Auckland 2040's…, in reply to Marc C,
The Panel will upon reviewing all the evidence and submissions before it make its recommendations to Council
I'm talking only about this phase of the process, where council is a submitter, not the party that decides what to recommend. Certainly, after that they swap hats and decide which recommendations to accept and reject.
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One NZ government agency sought to exempt itself from the UN Disability Convention. Culture still broken.
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MoH dicking Helen Kelly around. Russell has more detail to add tomorrow.
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Hard News: A cog in the Mediaworks machine, in reply to Alfie,
Some of their previous DJs got abruptly bounced apparently. Doesn't sound like a good lot to work for.
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Speaker: Correcting Auckland 2040's…, in reply to Joshua Arbury,
ta, Josh
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Speaker: Correcting Auckland 2040's…, in reply to Russell Brown,
almost male menopause.
a focused interview with the man would be great. -
Hard News: Mt Eden: Not a closing but an…, in reply to BenWilson,
You can come down it pretty fast.
works well in a car too - just look ahead the whole length
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Orsman continues his misleading campaign, featuring the nincompoopery of some Councillors who have been thoroughly briefed over many moons yet still seem to not grasp matters.
"I'm on the residents' side. I don't want to see high rise buildings towering over Auckland."
...Sir John [Walker] said he supported calls to withdraw the changes, which see large swathes of suburban Auckland rezoned for multi-storey buildings, terraced housing and apartments in the council's latest submission to the Unitary Plan.
..."Why ruin the city with three-storey apartments? They might not be very high but I wouldn't want to live next door to one".
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