Got to get it in

 

 

Well I have done pretty much all I can with Unitary Plan commentary now. Since March 16 it has been one interesting journey with meeting a very wide range of people. Since the Unitary Plan was released (while I was in Sydney) I have attended around 14 Unitary Plan meetings, workshops and forums around the city, attended the Southern Civic Forum, and given a presentation on Manukau to the Council last week. Commentary has been running thick and fast on the Unitary Plan via the blog with I now believe 100 pieces of individual UP commentary since March 16. The blog has also been great as a digital memory repository which I can now access as I assemble my Unitary Plan feedback.

 

It is time to knuckle down and get all the Unitary Plan information together and presented as a single document for the Council and planners. Bit like mashing together 14 District Plans to form the single Unitary Plan 😛

A reminder that this is what I will be covering in my feedback with some amendments along the way:

The points I will be covering (in order of this list) in this feedback document are:

1. Why I am covering the respective points here in this feedback document
2. Brief recap on The Draft Unitary Plan as it currently stands
3. 400,000 homes and one million people – where are they going to go?
4. My Housing Mix using the shapeauckland.co.nz Housing Simulator
5. The Zones: My Alternative to the Unitary Plan Zones using work from my Auckland Plan submission – this will include:
   1. Implementing the Centralised Master Community Plan (CMCP), the Semi-Liberal Plan Districts (SLPD), and the Municipal Utility District (MUD)
   2. Reworking the zones including adding, deleting, or modifications to the Unitary Plan Zones using zone definitions from my submission to the Auckland Plan. Special Character Zones will be introduced here
6. Over Intensification with the centres – who gets upgraded and who gets downgraded. Also covered is redrawing the height restrictions imposed on some centres
7. Manukau and St Heliers; special places deserve special recognition as one size does not fit all with the Unitary Plan. This is where the Special Character Zone will get further mentioned
8. CMCP’s and SLPD’s and applying them to select individual places in Auckland as examples of my alternative in regards to the Unitary Plan. Papakura and the Southern Rural Urban Boundary Greenfield sites will be two of the examples used
9. The Rural Urban Boundary in Southern Auckland:
   1. Which of the three options per the Rural Urban Boundary Addendum
   2. Why I chose that particular RUB option
   3. How it would work (this will tie in with Point 8) and its effects to wider Auckland
   4. How it affects me personally
10. Observed Transport issues stemming from the Unitary Plan. The Auckland Transport Integrated Transport Plan will be mentioned here
11. Other infrastructure (including social) issues stemming from the Unitary Plan
12. Any other notes and observations from the Unitary Plan
13. Conclusion(s)

Urban design will be covered in multiple points rather than just one set specific point.

 

So quite a bit to write on but at the same time not so. Most of the thirteen points and sub points have been written here in the blog. This means a straight forward “bring over” into the submission with a clean up applied for sense and clarity. Once all done, away it goes to Council while uploaded to the blog for your reading pleasure.

 

I better knuckle down then to get it all done by 5pm – May 31

 

BEN ROSS : AUCKLAND