Sunday, May 10, 2015

Henny's latest Squawk

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Henny Pulse, Deputy Squawker for the Associated Cluckfusters Collective, is all a’flutter about the proposed Special Henhouse Areas. Your ...
Thursday, May 07, 2015

Awkland housing - again

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Auckland City Council and the Gubmint are having a hissy fit. ACC has overplayed a weak hand in any case.. They are infested with Brit-sty...
Monday, February 23, 2015

Quake Anniversary Feb 22

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In the to-be-written economic analysis of the Canterbury quake series, there will be wonderful case studies for Public Policy, Management, a...
Friday, February 13, 2015

Housing Supply - the blame game

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Housing supply articles routinely ignore the tragic comedy of planning policy at the TLA level, which is where the majority of the blame lie...
Monday, February 09, 2015

Territorial Local Authorities (TLA's) and Risk Assessment

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One aspect which has quite a lot of bearing on TLA cost structures is that of the attitude to risk. The current attitude is rules-based, w...
Monday, February 02, 2015

Mo' Moolah Required

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The Left Honorable Sir Larry Fool, president-for-life of the Small-Nation Association For Urbanista (SNAFU), has recently spoken out on beha...
Friday, January 23, 2015

Why local gubmint 'dithers'

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Local Government 'dithering', while an accurate description as seen from outside the tent, is in fact structural. LG is a creature...

Christchurch Geotechnical vulnerability

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The Christchurch situation (highly varied pockets of riverine silt interpsersed with gravel bars and peat) was very well known by the early ...
Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Robert Heinlein on Bad Luck

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Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) is fond of this quote: Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit th...
Saturday, November 22, 2014

A Little Battle hymn

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What Labour needs is a Rallying Cry, so, to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, here's one.  That first line is filched from T...
Monday, November 10, 2014

RMA and Housing Unaffordability

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  This ( RMA and housing unaffordability being linked ) is a sad but in hindsight predictable trajectory. I won't retrace all the steps...
Monday, November 03, 2014

Plans 'Inadequate' - Gubmint to CCC

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Response to a Stuff article:   Govt-slams-planning-changes-as-inadequate The plannerista do not understand four fundamental things about o...
Wednesday, October 08, 2014

A Fool speaks out

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The Left Honorable Sir Larry Fool, president-for-life of the Small-Nation Association For Urbanista (SNAFU), has taken strong exception to W...
Tuesday, September 30, 2014

TLA's are oblivious to two aspects: UOMI and CG created by lines on maps

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There are, RMA reforms apart, two lines of action available to start to effect the needed changes. 1 - impose a UOMI calculation and repor...
Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Why does an urban section cost $200K plus???

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Posted as a Stuff comment to a David Killick article. This is something the Productivity Commission noted in their Housing Affordability ...
Thursday, July 24, 2014

Councils and Consents

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The issue with consents is quite simple:  there is zero risk-assessment in the process, the way Councils run them.  Schedule 1 IS risk-based...
Thursday, July 17, 2014

Another cold-eyed but well-argued Spengler piece

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In this magisterial article , David P Goldman argues that America has bungled everything for a decade-and-a-half, and is frankly now incapab...
Friday, April 25, 2014

CBD rebuild stall - blamed on Private Developers!

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There are two very fundamental reasons why the commercial rebuild of the Christchurch CBD has not occurred. 1 - the precincts idea and th...
Friday, March 07, 2014

Mike Greer and Spanbuild to do Factory House Builds

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Great news. Factory builds are tighter, more accurate, use CNC machines instead of drug-addled hammer hands, and are manufactured under cov...
Friday, February 28, 2014

MUL's, RUB's, Zones and other Unearned Capital Gain drivers

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The thing the Clueless Councils have never twigged to, is the economic effect of a zoning squiggle on a map. The Productivity Commission F...