I know Gen zero and transportblog are not strictly political organisations but personally this old white male would happily tick every…

The whole hearing process, and the position of some Councillors,…

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11594924

I went there out of interest and followed discussions until close to 5pm. It was clearly stressed by most speakers, this was about process, not about intensification, heights and other issues, and so did the Mayor.

Various groups and some board members…

No mention of the IHP directing the Council to intensify more at all from John Duguid

This from Bob Dey

http://www.propbd.co.nz/plan-staff-put-5-options-on-rezoning-maps/…

Probably better it is state owned than paying market rates for privately owned desalinated water in the future... needs must!

I noticed in The Big Short that one of the key players…

There's also the possibility that if councillors prove they aren't leaders, govt may just replace them like they…

Again, population growth in Auckland is going to happen, whether we plan to cope with it or not. We have decades of evidence of what ignoring it results in. Time to grow up and plan ahead properly.

Councillors plan to remove council submissions from UnitaryPanel hearings on zonings. Good move guys, leave it to Govt to rezone. # owngoal

Far from usual wording from our Deputy Mayor – that's pure frustration.

I see the panel having to reconcile the proposed detail with the overall established intent of the Auckland Plan. Some of…

http://www.propbd.co.nz/law-passed-to-enable-government-to-direct-housing-nz-on-sales/

By a freak of infrastructure and economy of scale, Auckland handles most of NZ's long haul flights, which means it inherently gets most of the migrants. In Wellington there's been a bit of…

Similarly regional economic development policy is central government's domain, yes. They still hold most of the cards in Auckland ultimately.

It…

that's a big problem.

They really are not that powerful. :)

Most of the increase projected by StatsNZ is through births in the region's existing population.

https://www.watercare.co.nz/SiteCollectionDocuments/AllPDFs/Waikato-River-Fact-Sheet.pdf
http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/news/66519932/Auckland-water-application-could-take-up-to-a-year-to-process
https://www.watercare.co.nz/SiteCollectionDocuments/AllPDFs/Tapped_In_Winter_2015.pdf

It seems there are limited opportunities to provide the additionally needed future water to supply another 400,000 households and another 700,000 to 1 million population, and it all seems to…

Heard claims that will it will be a $6m facility.

Latest situation is that it's going to be both. Which seems reasonable given that there was demand for both.

Not such fun for immediate neighbours of course, and it's going to considerably increase traffic in…

Doesn't like punctuation characters. Long-standing simple bug in the CMS which for some reason remains unfixed.

I've always thought the Boomer-Millennial inter-generational conflict thing is more accurately a conflict between Generation Rent and Generation Rentier. Not all Boomers are rent- i -ers and not all millennials are renters -…

I dont mean to be argumentative, and obviously…

The 1200m2 has been revised to no density limits for MHU and…

Except they're building a Day Care not a Kindegarden, but that's a whole other story...

I understand the current zoning of schools means they can pretty much do what they like in the built form (subject to budget constraints)

Which is proposed to be 6% of the total, for context.

Schools are crucial social infrastructure that council planners must take into account.

This isn't the case in…

once. limited supply of land, hence schools are always planned many years ahead and large plots are banked for that.

To be fair, all the garages are at street…

important point, that.
most folk have no idea what is being done in our names.

gizza job, bro

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I dont find mixed housing urban to be innapropriate in a suburb…

As Russell says above, anomalous and inappropriate , not to mention against planning best practice.

There is no justification for schools in Central Auckland that have recently had ~100 million$ in new building work completed…

Similar to the way the Ministry of Education has had the special zone for schools removed in the Unitary Plan and schools…

Queensland's White Shoe Brigade is an obvious example. I haven't yet found if the Aussies have made a soap opera or mini series of it. Maybe it's just a matter of time.

They may be nervous that the IHP will throw out the Out of…

Not without strong regulation and assertive partnerships with council staff at the right level. Wideboy property developers interacting with junior planning clerks will never…

But while this is so, why do we then have such groups as this, of…

As for the chart above the photo, it shows…

Most of that row have clearly visible garages beneath them. They are also in one of the surprisingly densest residential parts of Auckland – Ponsonby, Freemans Bay, etc.

So I stuck to the facts, which is what was written in Matt's blogpost!

http://transportblog.co.nz/2016/02/16/the-unitary-plan-roller-coaster/…

He says no such thing. Cr Walker and the coastal nimbys have been calling 3 storeys "high rise". A tiny part of the region will be zoned for buildings any higher than 3.…

I notice how Matt is being somewhat cynical, criticising those opposing certain newly proposed, non notified zoning. He writes that these changes are…

And having seen and heard what goes on, I am not surprised that most in public would be rather insecure, afraid even,…

By investing enough in our processes to reduce the various barriers to involvement; and by being scrupulous about acknowledging who was not at the table.

Most people have more immediate calls on their attention. We really can't blame them for that. Researchers constantly struggle with sample composition and this survey is no exception (p14, = p20 of PDF):

Efforts were made during recruitment and…

82% of respondents were Auckland home owners..

and that is a very real problem, I agree.

Ah, from p5 of the linked report (p11 of the PDF):

The results suggest that there is a mismatch between the current supply of dwelling typologies…

I thnk we can agree many people face financial restraints in the current ridiculous Auckland housing 'market'. From p4 of the report (p10 of…

Even after building more intense housing forms for the next few decades, most available dwellings across the region will still be single detached ones. Plenty of 'choice' for people who want those. Not so much for the rest of us. Increasing numbers of migrants, travelled…

The new debate has yet to address the question of whether the views of existing residents should hold more weight in long-term decisions about an Auckland in which future generations will live.

It's something the Productivity Commision called a "democratic deficit"…

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…

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,…

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…

http://nzh.tw/11589535

The MHU still has density limits in terms of height, height to boundary, site coverage etc. in fact in terms of the structure able to be built, the change you refer to does not affect this at all.

As far as I know there is nothing, which makes you wonder how they decided what to upzone

Nor do enough of us grasp that this whole process was dictated in…

How much involvement in the process to the Councillors actually have, I assume they are briefed at various stages? Or were the new maps in December with the large scale out of scope changes as much…

Bold: Intensification proposed in the Auckland Plan and the subsequent Draft Unitary Plan
Timid: Winding back the intensification in the notified Proposed Unitary Plan
Bold: Evidence lodged with…

Regardless of where you stand on intensification, it's…

The recommendations that are accepted can only be challenged in the High Court on points of law.…

It would be good for someone from the Waitemata board to state their position, I know they read this blog, they’ve been silent either way far.

With the way Mike Lee's been carrying on, "Cathy Casey's against it" is…

You'd be better off just saying Cathy Casey and Mike Lee are against it, because any time I hear…

This whole thing is going to end up in the Environment Court

I have some sympathy in that we only submitted because Housing NZ had bid in its submission to spot-rezone its own properties in our little cul de sac as Mixed Housing…

It follows this http://www.aupihp.govt.nz/documents/docs/aupihpinterimguidbestpracticerezoningprecinctsrub20150731.pdf

The only question is what the final decision will be and that will be influenced by pressure and political considerations rather than any submissions.

The starting point is the goal of wanting around 70% of population growth to be accommodated in the urban limits. That seems to have been…

"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…

Thanks, could you point me (link) to the directive from the IHP to Council that Hulse refers to? Auckland2040 claim there was no such directive.

In regards to the Pre 1944 Demo…

Deputy Mayor Hulse is correct in regards to the Blue Out of Scope changes regarding residential growth shortages.

In regards to the Pre 1944 Demo Overlay, with the Panel scaling that back significantly it meant the Council could no longer defend applying the Single House Zone so upzoning…

Or make schools like Auckland Grammar sell some of their playing fields. Why should the taxpayer carry the substantial…

I don't think this is a correct statement, as I understand…

But why would they want that [[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10380894 | That is not the way the big boys,…

Auckland2040 however claim there was no such direction…

Some of the changes appear to…

They're all for the Vogons energising the demolition beams... until they actually come right to their doorstep.

The same Act party inconsistency drives…

The feedback form on the Proposed Unitary Plan had three options:
1) Support the PAUP
2) Support the PAUP but wish to make amendments
3) Oppose the PAUP

I went for…

A reader has noted to me that she saw this post on the Grey Lynn Residents website drawing attention to a petition from the Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance calling in Auckland Council to "withdraw their undemocratic 'out of scope' zoning changes."…

You are clearly well informed and totally on top of the details of the Unitary Plan process – well done.

However, you are in a tiny minority of Auckland residents. Most of us lead busy lives running families, businesses and jobs. Yet what happens to our properties matters dearly…