Category: Financial Planning

Sprawl While Inevitable Sprawl Does Cost a City

Smart growth And no when I say smart growth I do not mean a water tight Metropolitan Urban Limit that forbids development outside it and does not move without … Continue reading Sprawl While Inevitable Sprawl Does Cost a City

Southern Airport Line just makes sense Before the Planning Committee started yesterday I was having a discussion with Orakei Ward Councillor Desley Simpson over what project should be next given … Continue reading The Southern Airport Line. Our Next Project After the City Rail Link

Auckland Burns while Finance Minister Fiddles Airport Lines, not being stuck on the Southern Motorway day in day out, bus lanes that spanned City wide. You would think this … Continue reading The Airport Line? Where Is It? Finance Minister Continues Anti-Auckland Agenda

Record breaking amount of submitters A record number of submissions were received for the 2017/2018 Annual Plan (~8,500) with the demographic and Local Board area split pretty much even. … Continue reading Annual Plan 16/17 Feedback In: 66% of Submitters Want Accommodation Levy (Bed Tax)

March 6, 2017 ·

Build enabling infrastructure The Government announced a $1 billion loan i that Councils nationwide could tap into to help accelerate infrastructure developments along so as to speed Greenfield housing supply … Continue reading What To Do With That $1 Billion Infrastructure ‘Grant?’

February 28, 2017 ·

Where would you like Auckland to go The Annual Plan 2017/2018 is out for consultation until March 27. From Auckland Council: Aucklanders urged to have their say on budget … Continue reading Have Your Say in the Annual Auckland Budget

Need investment not delays and penny-pinching The Annual Plan 2017/2018 (annual Council budget document) is now out for consultation until March 27. If you wish to give your input … Continue reading Have Your Say for the Council Annual Budget: Why I went with the 3.5% Rates Rise

Governing Body approves consultation document From Auckland Council: Annual Budget consultation one step closer Auckland Council’s Governing Body today approved the material to be used during the upcoming consultation … Continue reading Annual Plan Consultation Document Approved. To Start February 27

Take your pick On Thursday the Governing Body of Auckland Council will meet to formalise the consultation document for the Annual Plan 2017-2018 (aka the yearly Budget document) with … Continue reading Governing Body Meeting: Annual Plan Consultation Document (aka Rates) to be Formalised

Divide up into smaller pieces By now you would have seen the doom and gloom Herald articles about the Isthmus’s sewer network spilling sewerage into the harbours on a … Continue reading How to Handle Auckland’s Growth: Do We Divide Up or Go All In?