NPV of a dollars income in 80, or even 50 years is pretty close to zero though

Might be a good idea to let developers swap more and see if there is any uptake.

Do you think there is anything else that could be easily done to get better outcomes?

I don't know if they don't do this swap at all because they think buyers prefer private space over shared, or because splitting it would compromise the usefulness of both?

One other faucet is that it is that in the district plan you are required to have a certain amount of private outdoor living area space. You can swap about half of this for a communal space if you want to, but I don't know any developers doing this

I *think* this is a good example of this in action

Shared spaces might be seen as a bit risky because people haven't experienced it much in New Zealand and are scared of the downsides. Maintaining / managing such a space, what if you don't like the people etc.

Again all speculation.

Hey, post author here 👋. I love shared outdoor spaces, super interesting topic to me personally so sorry for the dump here:

All speculation here: I wonder how much is cultural? When buying a place people seek to lower risk as much as possible, maybe because of the extreme expense of housing?

New article: Townhouses! Where will the kids go? 🏘️👩‍👩‍👧🌳

"Sometimes townhouses are presented as replacing housing that traditional families would otherwise have lived in — though is this actually the case?"

Have a read, linked below 👇

Thanks, will try to keep an eye out for this in plan changes. Reckon that council could be convinced to not do it.

We've got no parking miniums anymore, but the parking that does get built due to market demands is really important.

Not sure to what extent this changes things in New Zealand. I’m under the impression that the current standards are baked into our district plan and it’d be a mish to update to the latest

The minimum under the district plan in chch is pretty small. Pretty entertaining watching people with utes use the parking lot in my townhouse dev

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Bit shit the only people the govt allowed them are another govt department

To me this just sounds like the same outcome with additional steps?

And aren't most people actually mad about the reallocation within the economy? (yes overly broad statement, impossible to really know) Generally from their consumption to whatever taxes are spent on, or from private investment.

Listening in to the audiobook. 8 hours in and like 6 of it he’s just listing disasters and stats about disasters.

Decent content, in a “wow, glad that’s not me rn” way. But uhhh is this just the book essentially?

Local Indian restaurant has two pictures, and they’re both of John Key eating here however many years ago

And at least for the 2002 - 2011 period, it's a similar story as to where the money comes from and goes.

Full read, also talks about pop growth: www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2015/03/06/m...

Auckland is the growth laggard in comparison here. Over the last census period Canterbury grew at 1.66% pa, Auckland at 1.06% pa.

Of course Wellington is considerably worse, grew at 0.55% pa and is inexplicably getting dramatically outsized funding.

I do wonder what the calculus is on using portable generators and cell towers all summer in Hayley is.

They only run during events but still.

Whatever ends up happening with road user charges reform it has to go some way address the massive transfers from south to north.

Current situation completely undermines the idea and support for user charging.

Hot take I guess. Housing is a dramatically more productive land use than basically any ag use

won't the value of the dollar just go down and bring it closer into line?

Transport seems poisoned as well. Voterbase expectations far exceed what can be delivered.

My read is that the 42 million is not including any local road changes, which needs to be funded in later stages.

How does it cost 42 mil, it’s canopies, 2 lifts and some stairs. All the platforms and heavy civil is done!

Should have been character listed

It is unironically one of the biggest architectural draws of the city haha

Messy already!!

Happy Plan Change 14 vote day to all who celebrate!

We’ll be listening in and providing some updates on the Christchurch City Council’s decision-making as the day goes on.

Have you looked into keeping the cooker, switching it to LPG bbq bottles? This is usually a fairly easy retrofit option for gas appliances.

Advantages are you stop giving the gas network your money, and should be a fair bit cheaper. But more faffing having to change bottles.

Would be better to force retrofits.

A randomised system where x% of houses in the area have to get solar within a 2 years. Each year another x%

Much better from an equity perspective

Yeah they don't tend to last long if they build a couple hundred million worth of real estate that doesn't sell

And broad upzoning means dozens of upstarts like Williams Corp nipping at their heels