Hopefully some answers too

In light of my presentation to the Auckland Development Committee and the Committee’s consequential reaction, I have fired some questions off to the Committee Chair Deputy Mayor Penny Hulse seeking full clarification of comments made post presentation (see: The Reaction To My Presentation to the Auckland Development Committee [Updated with figures and links])

As this official communication with an elected representative I am posting the exact questions below:

1) What is the future of land sales that Auckland Council Property Limited might propose in the Metropolitan Centres (and possibly Town Centres)? Will there be a review of the sales process and decision-making? Will there be a freeze in land sales until such a review is taken and possibly until the new Auckland Development Council Controlled Organisation is formed.

2) In light of the presentation I gave specifically around the Manukau City Centre Lot 59 sale, will that sale process despite the motion in the previous Finance and Performance Committee authorising it be frozen pending a review outlined in question one?

Or will a Rescinding Motion be put in play to stop the sale entirely and have Council sit on the land until at least the new Auckland Development CCO is set up and can look at that very valuable 17,450m2 piece of Metropolitan Centre land in the Heart of South Auckland.

 I can tell you that feed back I got both privately and publicly around the Manukau Land Sale at the minimum was greeted with either despair or hostility. They are of the same thought as I am in hanging on to that land and Council leading the development through its own agencies which this new proposed CCO would do – that I knew nothing about until Friday morning after the presentation.

An example of public feed back that came through the blog:

are not following up on some of the critical issues you have raised lately?? – especially to do with Council’s performance in regard to South Auckland (Manukau), and the wasted opportunities to co-ordinate urban renewal on the scale and vision you are clearly showing is practical, exciting and progressive etc, etc….

I look forward to your reply

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We shall see what answers come back and how Council will proceed with a policy direction that is running against the citizenry in Auckland.