Friday, December 13, 2013

Four Thoughts re First Homes

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The interlocked factors (I ranted aboot this yesterday here) are just too hard to tackle, even individually. One alternative (which may hap...
Thursday, December 12, 2013

Hoose prices.

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There is a Gordian knot here: a myriad of interlocking and mutually reinforcing factors. No use tackling any one alone. Zoning which b...
Sunday, December 08, 2013

Popery

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The Pope has ruffled a few feathers.... Many of the more history-aware readers of the early capitalists (Smith, Ricardo etc) have pointed...
Wednesday, September 11, 2013

RMA Reform?

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Amy Adams makes a key point: "When the RMA becomes the basis on which Councils look to • Take their own stance on national laws they d...
Tuesday, September 10, 2013

ACC Deputy Mayor on the Housing Accord

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“I’m very comfortable that we haven’t started to bleed out into the countryside.” Ms Henny Pulse, chair of the Auckland First Unionaterise...
Tuesday, September 03, 2013

Commissioners to administer challenges to TLA Development Contributions.. Egads, Transparency and Appeals. Will the madness Evah stop?

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The Left Honourable President-for-life of the Union of Local Gubmint Drones, Larry Fool, has slammed the introduction of Commissioners for t...
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Local Gubmint receives another planning shock: complulsory 30-year asset horizons

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The Left Honourable President-for-life of the Union of Local Gubmint Drones, Larry Fool, has slammed the new 30-year planning horizon to be ...
Sunday, August 18, 2013

Development Contributions to be limited

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Transcription of Lawrence Yules' (Chair, Local Gubmnint Apologists' Association) remarks (remember I did predict wailing and gnashin...
Sunday, June 23, 2013

New Christchurch International Convention, Gambling and Pleasure Centre Announced

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Sir Very Clownley, ably flanked by Dodger Button with Hob Carker bringing up the rear of the entourage, today swept into town to announce th...

Where we sit....

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 I'm a conservative in most matters now - markets work - why supplant them? But we don't and never have had a 'free market'...
Tuesday, June 11, 2013

What Local Governments Do

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New Central Gubmint legislation could "potentially neuter a big part of the what this country's local governments currently do...
Monday, May 27, 2013

Modular Housing, Factory-produced.

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Factory produced housing components have been around since the 1870's (look at early Kauri Timber Co catalogues....) but the transition ...
Thursday, May 23, 2013

A Tale of Two Scrapers

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A follow-up piece - how Did I manage to Break a Scraper in Half? First up, I was working for the Copulating Spiders - the ol' MoW insi...
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Ancient History ( a slice of a younger , machine-operator Waymad)

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The context is that common taters aver that a residential subdivision needs a lotta Plannin'. Maybe..... A much younger Waymad built...
Friday, May 17, 2013

Lifestyle Blocks

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Well, lemme just tee up the Broken Record for another spin. Right. RPM - check. No dust on needle - check. Lower needle - check The popula...
Thursday, May 16, 2013

Green reaction to Whiteware Initiative

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Mr Normal Russian, spokesperson for the Alliance of Indigenous Laundrettes (AIL), had this to say about the initiative to bulk-buy whiteware...
Saturday, March 09, 2013

Rates required

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Every line item in a Council's Long Term Plan (LTP) , rolls up into one of several main buckets. The political-dynamite bucket is R...
Wednesday, March 06, 2013

Farming and Infrastructure

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'Farming' cannot ever be talked about as though it's a single activity. It depends exquisitely on a host of factors: altitude, s...
Friday, January 25, 2013

LG gets a long overdue Purpose Re-definition

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Statute has been amended: see the redefinition of 'Purpose - sec 10 - reproduced below. If I was still in LG wiv my cold hand on the f...
Wednesday, January 16, 2013

How to Fix the Housing Mess

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A thought experiment.... There are so many dimensions to what needs to happen that no Gumnut is gonna get them all done. It will take a cras...