The Video Link to Brent Toderian’s Presentation

 

I had the privilege  of attending the Auckland Conversation presentation on Urban Design with Brent Toderian as the guest speaker.

While I am waiting for Auckland Council to post up the slides from the presentation (currently you get a 404 error when you trying and click on the PDF link) I will share the link to the video presentation.

The video link (at 105 minutes long) can be found here: Design for Auckland.

 

For those wanting to listen to Richard Burton from Auckland 2040 go push his barrow with his same old question he has asked at most events around things like urban design, planning and population; fast forward to the 98:30 minute mark and allow it to be played it.

Brent’s answers were pretty much well – a slap down to Burton’s (and Brent did it twice as well)barrow pushing. I know the left half of the room where I was sitting were chuckling at Burton pushing the barrow, followed by further chuckling after Brent’s answer.

Seriously Richard – give it up – really – the barrow pushing is becoming similar to flogging a well and truly dead horse. Yes the City does have its concerns with the Unitary Plan but not as you are perceiving. Let me run out some statistics for you:

• Mayor got back in on a 60:40 2-person preferred basis on the mayoral vote
• 9/14 Wards voted in majority of Mayor Len Brown
• 16/21 Local Boards voted in majority of Mayor Len Brown
• Council is sitting around a centrist-progressive position on most aspects including the Unitary Plan. There was no lurching over owing to anti-Unitary Plan sentiment – including the North Shore
• Brent Toderian’s answers were quite sound and robust in reply to your questions Richard – and Brent left behind a wealth of knowledge on how to progress Auckland very well and into the 21st Century
• Then the follow indicators in regards to population and the Unitary Plan remain in positive territory

 

Once the slides are out I will run some posts of them. In particular I want to pick up on the middle section of Brent’s presentation where he was talking about our Metropolitan Centres. For about 15 minutes the group I was sitting with automatically picked up Brent was referring to Manukau. Because of this I will pick up on that section and run some extensive post-analysis on it.

 

A big thank you to Brent for coming out to Auckland and giving the presentation. The information was worth more than its weight in gold and I do hope the City and Council take on board as the City Building phase starts – in earnest.

Thank you Brent Toderian