The Agenda

Today at 9:30am the Auckland Development Committee will meet. The agenda can be seen below

As normal I will be running my live Tweeting ( @BenRoss_AKL ) through the Committee as well as the Budget Committee and Governing Body that both follow right after the Auckland Development Committee.

The Auckland Development Committee will be endorsing Plan Changes amongst other discussions. One of the Plan Changes is the Drury South Plan Change that would allow the creation of the heavy industry complex in southern Drury over time.

The report back on the amount of industrial and commercial land might stir a debate within the Committee and will be one to watch to see if the Councillors can grasp rather long or super long-term planning in regards to land being available for large-scale employment centres. Remember I have said before that Council is good at zoning residential but rather slow in grasping the requirements to allow zoning and the subsequent establishment of commercial and industrial zones that would give rise to employment centres that is needed for Auckland’s long-term prosperity.

The Housing update will definitely cause a stir especially if affordable housing gets mentioned. However, I wonder if the debate will rehash the same old stuff as seen over the last four years?

The debate I would have like to have seen thought is the Special Housing Area Tranche Four item which is behind closed doors. The SHA’s previously have caused quite a bit of teeth gnashing and no doubt this fourth set will do the same. That said the Tranche’s usually go through the Governing Body for final “ratification” so we might see a glimpse of a debate there. Also in light of the SHA troubles that we are seeing (Special Housing Areas Already in Trouble?) I wonder if a Councillor will be brave enough to raise it before going behind closed doors to discuss the Fourth Tranche.

All today and all at Town Hall