Second of Two Auckland Transformational Panels Lacking Still in Public Oversight The Auckland Plan has two transformational objectives to it: City Centre upgrade The Southern Initiative Here is … Continue reading City Centre Advisory Panel Great, Now Where is our Southern Initiative Equivalent?
What Cities Skylines teaches me With Easter gone it is back to the daily grind and all those social media posts about our transport sucking one way or the … Continue reading #CitiesSkylines Lessons with Planning
Need to think laterally on the issue Those who have been watching Unitary Plan developments recently (no not that vote this time) will have heard me refer to the … Continue reading Can We Afford to Push More People From the South Through THIS Bottleneck? #UnitaryPlan
New material means more evidence to be filed I have just sent off some Supplementary Evidence to the Unitary Plan Hearings Panel in light of new material coming out … Continue reading #UnitaryPlan Rezoning for the South Hearing Next Month. More Evidence Filed
Where are the people? On Friday the Council released a report in the supply of Business Zones land and their likely capacity through the life of the Unitary Plan … Continue reading #UnitaryPlan Business Zone Capacity Study Interesting. Lacks Human Geography Element
As I thought with the zones Auckland Council has released their ACDC15 (Auckland Council Development Capacity) modelling Excel sheet to the (Unitary Plan) Independent Hearings Panel website for downloading, … Continue reading The ACDC15 Modelling and The Case for the Manukau Super Metropolitan Centre #BetterAuckland
We yearn for much yet do little to gain it Voter turn out in the last Local Elections in Auckland (2013) was a low ~36% as we moaned about … Continue reading Election Paradigm. Mediocrity and Votes, Vision and No Votes. #Auckland2016
Top Three Issues cropping up Yesterday I decided to go for a walk around the Auckland Botanical Gardens (the Elvis in the Park was on) to have a listen … Continue reading Fleshing Out the Issues in Manurewa-Papakura #Auckland2016
Lots of “physical Geography” stuff but not much on the human element Last night the Auckland Conversations kicked off again with the topic being Changing Streets to Change the … Continue reading #AklConversations on Changing Streets to Change the World seemed Lop-sided
Happy with what Council is proposing While we continue to wait for a decision on the Out of Scope aspects of the Unitary Plan Rezoning topic (see: Independent Legal #UnitaryPlan … Continue reading #UnitaryPlan Residential Zones. Where Are We Going with the Mixed Housing Zone
Talking Southern Auckland 