Posts by Sacha
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Just spotted that this is a Notification of Requirement (NoR) process. I am neither a planner nor a lawyer, but from what I've heard this reduces both Council's choices and the public's avenues of influence in favour of the interests of the 'Requiring Authority'.
The existing designation for that site is unfortunately as a carpark rather than a stand of trees, according to one of the application documents (p13):
Section 177 of the RMA sets out the provisions which apply to requiring authorities where a prior designation exists over the same area. In giving effect to this NoR, Auckland Transport will need to comply with these provisions. It is noted the land required to give effect to this NoR will not hinder the operation of 820 Great North Road as carpark, in accordance with its designation.
Somebody who does know more, please chime in. Maybe a (resource management) lawyer is needed after all. :)
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Access: Research Invitation - Life…, in reply to Marc C,
Any disabled person, including people with impaired mental health.
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Hard News: Housing, hope and ideology, in reply to BenWilson,
It’s the only way you can explain that two identical houses situated one in Grey Lynn and one in the backblocks of a small remote South Island town could have a price difference of a million dollars.
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If you make Erewhon nicer, then people will want to live there, but their very desire to do so will make the land under those houses much more valuable.Agree it’s about relative location rather than land as such – access to valued things like social and educational infrastructure, interesting jobs, a critical mass of people who like the same things.
That’s the fundamental nuttiness of thinking the answer is adding more boxes made of ticky tacky on the fringes, rather than rethinking dwellings as compact homes, terraced houses and apartments with higher-value shared public amenities around them and strong transport options. Pumping funding into a bubble without constraining financialised demand is nothing more than ideological lunacy.
the value of the land under it is simply multiplied again.
Not by so much. Not linear.
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Busytown: Beware of the Leopard, in reply to Russell Brown,
they didn’t see it as their business to consider anything but the most optimum flow of cars
Biggest problem with transport culture infecting the key agencies: their unit of attention is the vehicle, not people or goods, and certainly not places other than as things you whiz through. It's like none of them have ever stood still without a metal shell wrapped around them.
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Busytown: Beware of the Leopard, in reply to BenWilson,
What possible reason is there to take them down? Surely the motorway isn’t going to be widened right up to the footpath beside Gt North Rd?
Not the motorway. In the plans, Great North Road heading away from the city gets an extra lane turning left over the (soon to be double-width) bridge over the motorway before turning right onto the onramp West.
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Busytown: Beware of the Leopard, in reply to Abbie,
Imagine if it was the current PM.. :)
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Busytown: Beware of the Leopard, in reply to Abbie,
the elected representatives whom most of us mistakenly think wield more power
They are more of a check-and-balance, and in Auckland the Mayor's office has more powers and resources than in any other council.
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Disgusting. Councils are traditionally worried about following the letter of resource law because technical flaws have landed them in court when folk disagree with their decisions. It makes for a very unattractive culture around what should be engaging civic processes as Jolisa has so eloquently painted here.
Resolving this bureaucratic tangle soon enough to make a difference may require political leadership moreso than lawyers. What approaches have been made to the Mayor, Deputy Mayor, Councillors, etc?
The lack of regard for urban design in transport projects was only made worse when the region's councils were amalgamated and most of the transport staff were separated into their own organisation Auckland Transport with a separate mandate and structure from the main Council.
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As Russell mentioned some time ago, I am helping Philippa with this research project. Her team conducts the New Zealand arm of the World Internet Project, discussed over recent years on Public Address and at Internet NZ’s annual Nethui conference.
Hopefully this modest extra study helps shape how we can add disabled perspectives in this important field. I personally expect it will spark further study and engagement, which is why I’m involved.
We are able to conduct a limited number of interviews before the end of the year, either face-to-face in Auckland or Christchurch, or online as mentioned. Participation expenses are part of the budget but no fee or koha, so it has to be people who are motivated to contribute to the beginning of this sort of research (and reflective enough to comfortably discuss their own life experience).
If that is you, please contact Philippa asap.
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Access: Some aspects of New Zealand’s…, in reply to Angela Hart,
That's what I'm getting at, yes.
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