Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: A plea for sanity on the…, in reply to Chris W,
I’m also curious why people who oppose the DUP are labelled as being mis-informed by those who support the DUP. It’s quite condescending.
But doesn't the email addressed in the original post answer that question?
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Hard News: A plea for sanity on the…, in reply to Graham Dunster,
Tomorrow is the last chance to submit on the Draft Unitary Plan. Totally true.
Yes, and then everyone will have the opportunity to comment and make formal submissions on a proposed Unitary Plan shaped by this initial feedback phase. But you knew that.
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Anna Subritzsky's What consultation process? op-ed in the Herald today makes the council's actions over the the Waterview Precinct Plan look dismissive and arbitary.
But if you read the actual feedback report it seems clear that the decision on the siting of the terraced/apartment area (on run-down Housing NZ property to the north of the suburb) was made as a result of feedback.
The original comprehensive development area to the south of the suburb was deemed inappropriate because of the need to preserve viewshafts. So none of this is as mysterious or arbitrary as the column claims.
The Waterview Community Facebook page claims:
Being Government owned HNZ buildings, they are highly likely to be LOW COST, POORLY DESIGNED with poor social outcomes for their residents and Waterview as a suburb
Which might be getting us closer to the nub of the matter.
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Speaker: Generation Zero: Let's Grow Up, in reply to Rob Hosking,
The link to the unitary plan doesnae work.
Oops. My bad. Fixed now.
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Hard News: A plea for sanity on the…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
What I don’t get is that it seems to me that this is precisely what the DRAFT unitary plan is doing right now.
The text on the feedback page says this:
Next steps
Once feedback has closed, the council will work through the feedback and determine what changes need to be made to the plan. This process will take some months to complete. Information on the major feedback themes we received and a summary of the key changes we have made to the plan based on that feedback will be made available on the website later in the year. If you submit your feedback via our online form or send in a feedback form by post or email, we will contact you to let you know when that information is available.
Feedback provided through the other channels outlined above will not be responded to individually.
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Just to note that my friend in Elgin Street, who had a query about his own situation, had a good experience with the Auckland Council Unitary Plan hotline: ph 09 301 0101.
There's also a list of ways to give feedback, from Twitter on up.
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Hard News: A plea for sanity on the…, in reply to J Browning,
In fact, I’ve consulted directly with Planners responsible for the Unitary Plan and even they were unable to explain how it fits with the Auckland Plan, Visitor Plan, Transport Plan etc…
This lack of overall consultation and approach within the multitude of Council divisions is what’s fundamentally wrong with our city.
But that's less a problem with the Unitary Plan than the design of the Super City, surely?
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Hard News: A plea for sanity on the…, in reply to Nick Kearney,
It’s not just the Right that is going mental, and acting like it. You also have the likes of Grant Gillon and Tony Holman (and other “lefties”) on the Shore calling the draft plan “crazy”, “dangerous” and “destroying the city”. These two are from the former Alliance.
Good point.
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Hard News: A plea for sanity on the…, in reply to Rob Stowell,
Well, yeah…. except for Cantabrians
We are feeling your pain.
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Hard News: A plea for sanity on the…, in reply to Glenn Pearce,
I don’t think the current plan allows for multi occupancy dwellings in the equivalent residential zones (someone more knowledgeable than me may comment)
I’m not sure either. But there are already plenty of multi-occupancy buildings in suburbs like Mt Eden and Grey Lynn. And I did note the 1200m threshold for the density rules.