Yep Had one of two Auckland organisations continue to be petty 10-15 years later If the second one does, Australia will be pretty much all but confirmed unless I get recalled back into existing role, or a new role comes from an unexpected quarter

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Time to ensure that your Planning Regime and Zones enable Mixed Use as of Right today voakl.net/2025/08/23/f...

🌳 Green Spaces: Enhance the environment and provide places to relax and enjoy.

Why Mixed Use? From IMDB 🚶‍♀️ Walkable Streets: Encourage more walking, reducing traffic and pollution. 🏙️ Local Businesses: Support cafes, shops, and markets, enriching the local economy. 🤝 Community: Fosters social interaction, making neighborhoods feel safer and more welcoming.

Mixed Use is 👑. Also notice the 🚲 way to the left That said for the below to occur the Planning Regime needs to enable Mixed Use AS OF RIGHT with corner sites AND alongside the Building Act enable the flexibility with architecture styles including indigenous based architecture! Pic from IMDB

the cost of owning a car a tool that is parked 96% of the time you own it is nearly as much as a house

Right, back on Annual Leave for the School Holidays after delivering a Council Report yesterday. And with the weather being well the weather it is time to continue this Transit Oriented Development, and start the second one in #CitiesSkylines 1! benscities.blog/2025/09/20/t...

That means spending money that I would otherwise Hoard Use to by my 5th holiday home The next Ford Ranger that I will never drive on rural roads Holiday to Dubai

Winston's pissed

@greaterauckland.bsky.social post looks at Perimeter Block Housing and whether it can work in Auckland as I have highlighted it does abroad (it can) Also noting the Council Planning Committee meets tomorrow on whether to progress PC78 or write a new one www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2025/09/23/y...

And why would they come here with the most incompetent Govt in power?

Id say there is a poll floating somewhere post the GDP news of last week

Go Fash No Cash

New Zealand, Talbot Mills poll: Labour (Centre-left): 35% (+1) National (Centre-right): 31% (-1) Green (Green): 10% (-1) NZ First (*): 10% (+1) ACT (Libertarian): 7% (-1) Māori (Indigenous): 4% +/- vs. 01-10 August 2025 Fieldwork: 01-10 September 2025 ➤ oceaniaelects.com/new-zealand

Green Infrastructure is good for cities ✅ Cooling down streets and reducing the Urban Heat Island effect ✅ Filtering air and improving public health ✅ Managing stormwater and preventing floods ✅ Supporting biodiversity in dense urban fabrics ✅ Encouraging walking, cycling, and social life From IMDB

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It was never a Monetary Policy Problem It was always a Fiscal Policy Problem aka Luxon and Willis being absolutely shit at their jobs with their slash and burn budgets that have directly sent us into a tripple dip recession Aka Depression Economics

I am on Annual Leave so my alarm is switched off But if the Far Right Wing doesnt disappear tomorrow then fucks sake Revelations got it wrong....

The Blend of Maori and Pakeha design concepts on full display at Pt Chev with the Marutūāhu-Ockham Partnership Now to make sure this kind of partnership is more enabled up and down the motu with the incoming Planning Reforms www.nzherald.co.nz/business/mar...

Medium Density is your friend voakl.net/2025/07/22/m...

✔️ When integrated with public transport networks, they make walking, cycling, and transit the natural choice — reducing traffic and emissions. From IMDB Cities Skylines 2 German Urban Courtyards 👇

Urban Courtyards work with Medium Density 🌳👇 ✔️ They support families to stay in the city, reducing sprawl and car dependence. ✔️ They host vegetated, permeable areas, cooling the urban climate and mitigating floods. ✔️ They provide green, safe, and clean refuges in the middle of density.

Matthew Hooton's favourite far right regime needs a bailout Nah dont give one there team Free Market and all that jazz

Mixed Use is 👑 and Mixed Use as of Right Am I right? This is in France Mixed Use as of Right for wide use will be allowed in the incoming Planning Act (New Zealand) and Standardised Zones Mixed Use as of Right for narrow use is being strongly pushed to allow the below 👇

Bernard Orsman continuing to be the pits that he always is Fulton Hogan might want a new marketing manager as well Go into the second half of the article and you find actual support for the speed tables and the fact AT needs to get a Tow Truck in there to tow cars parked in bike lanes

As I said Iwi and Maori as a whole are more than capable in City/Town Building voakl.net/2025/09/07/i...

Given 1) The Māori Economy can match our cities pound for pound in terms of $/GDP output 2) Iwi are more than capable in Planning and City/Town Building Iwi reaching out to international ventures and trade is not only prudent but will leave Pakeha in their wake www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/waikato-t...

Nothing new will get built this side of the 2026 election. No-one's coming back from Oz to build them. THREE WASTED YEARS & a lost generation of tradies, just to fund landlord tax cuts.

"In my view, the Government choosing lower mortgage rates over healthier people, homeless people and more investment in future economic growth is a political choice. It is not a financial necessity. It’s also a sociopathic choice." #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/...

A point of contention today was Agrivoltaics Some saw it as virtual signalling Those who have adopted it in the US, Japan, Australia and Japan saw otherwise en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrivol...

Today's weather watch forecast brought to you by Spring Equinox weather getting its shit together after been absent for 5 years www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHrI...

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Another Monetary Policy Puristist full of collective shit but happy to run interference via NZME for the Government www.nzherald.co.nz/business/gdp...

Urban Courtyards work with Medium Density 🌳👇 ✔️ They support families to stay in the city, reducing sprawl and car dependence. ✔️ They host vegetated, permeable areas, cooling the urban climate and mitigating floods. ✔️ They provide green, safe, and clean refuges in the middle of density.

It was fantastic to attend the Ngāti Whātua commemoration of the 185th anniversary of the founding of Auckland/Tāmaki. 18th September 1840 Apahai te Kawai gifted 3000 acres of what is now downtown Auckland to Governor Hobson. Can you imagine a better city foundation than a gift between cultures?

That makes the BCR around 0.3 or NOT value for money Given the problems with the tarseal requiring repairs that knocks the BCR down to 0.2 Aka REALLY NOT VALUE FOR MONEY

"I don’t know about you, but paying $180 million a year for a project that delivers an annual $63 million (or $79 million) in benefits doesn’t sound like a very good deal." Today's post: Matt does the numbers on last week's report from Infrastructure NZ: www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2025/09/22/g...

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Translated Investors despise Luxon and Willis www.nzherald.co.nz/business/nz-...

Green Infrastructure is good for cities ✅ Cooling down streets and reducing the Urban Heat Island effect ✅ Filtering air and improving public health ✅ Managing stormwater and preventing floods ✅ Supporting biodiversity in dense urban fabrics ✅ Encouraging walking, cycling, and social life From IMDB

Yes Mayor Brown takes a practical straightforward approach to climate action but it’s good to hear it. I was clear in Oct 2022, I wouldn’t accept my chair role if he was going to cut back on action, we may not have been bold enough but we are doing a lot thespinoff.co.nz/politics/22-...

Report to Council on our submission to a pile of NPS/NES's went well today Did note there will be a contestation in the renewable energy space but in the end we are govered by Central Government policy and direction environment.govt.nz/news/consult...

Back on Track Am I right? www.nzherald.co.nz/business/cos...

Love This! 😎❤️🤍🖤 #ToitūTeTiriti #TangataTiriti #Aotearoa #nzpol

Just imagine what true partnership could achieve…the anti-treaty crowd are so dumb.

Given 1) The Māori Economy can match our cities pound for pound in terms of $/GDP output 2) Iwi are more than capable in Planning and City/Town Building Iwi reaching out to international ventures and trade is not only prudent but will leave Pakeha in their wake www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/waikato-t...

And the Monetary Policy Theorists as well All shills blabbering and offering nothing as their views continue to be completely wrong It is and always will be in NZs case Fiscal Policy And in this instance failed Fiscal Policy of National

Housing (shelter) is and always should be a Universal Right above all else

Bernard Orsman over in the Herald doing his anti urban anti people shtick as well Even after the Media Council effectively called his journalistic standards (and that of his editor at the Herald) "left a lot to be desired in journalistic standards"