tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post462018474405181546..comments2024-03-28T21:25:08.138+13:00Comments on Bowalley Road: Reflections On The Christchurch Earthquake: Starting OverChris Trotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-18189637361881555902011-03-14T10:06:22.370+13:002011-03-14T10:06:22.370+13:00This is an insight into the intoxicating effect of...This is an insight into the intoxicating effect of fast money and power that shapes our cities:<br /><br />This urban planner was so enthralled with this mans status that she would o/k developments for sex<br /><br />"The NSW corruption watchdog has recommended charges be laid against former Wollongong town planner Beth Morgan and her erstwhile lover, developer Frank Vellar, over a sex-for-development scandal at Wollongong City Council."<br />http://news.smh.com.au/national/icac-targets-11-over-wollongong-scandal-20081008-4w97.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-71768834216286041472011-03-14T09:50:58.498+13:002011-03-14T09:50:58.498+13:00https://emigratetonewzealand.wordpress.com/tag/ctv...https://emigratetonewzealand.wordpress.com/tag/ctv-building/<br /><br />That's interestingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-60213857339490951652011-03-14T08:20:40.091+13:002011-03-14T08:20:40.091+13:00Developments we want (from a past president of the...Developments we want (from a past president of the South Island branch of the Property Council):<br /><br />“Obviously the developers couldn’t buy the local politicians and public officials off fast enough in Dallas Fort Worth to overcome the zoning impediment – but they have been trying as this article Fed Up: Texas Monthly November 2007 illustrates. <b>It goes on pretty much everywhere of course</b> – but only illustrates how zoning tends to assist in inflating prices and stalling supply responses.<br /><br />http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0711/S00303.htmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-65657216756293948582011-03-13T20:42:48.467+13:002011-03-13T20:42:48.467+13:00I learnt today that Brownlie drives a Hummer?I learnt today that Brownlie drives a Hummer?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-63091062550012228752011-03-13T15:17:50.432+13:002011-03-13T15:17:50.432+13:00What interests Brownlee the most is the prospect o...What interests Brownlee the most is the prospect of channelling public funds to local wealthy property developer/construction industry friends of the party. Follow the money.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-42481578939859137642011-03-12T18:40:52.454+13:002011-03-12T18:40:52.454+13:00This is why Cantabrians must quiz Mr Brownlee much...This is why Cantabrians must quiz Mr Brownlee much more closely about his intentions. Because the future shape of Christchurch is, inescapably, a political question. If it is conceived in an atmosphere of crude austerity – where cheapness is the highest virtue – not only Cantabrians but all New Zealanders will be the losers.<br />...........<br />This may help explain why we get what we get?:<br />Marian Hobbs:<br /><i>First, I would like to thank the Council for the invitation to attend today.<br /><br />Secondly I would like to acknowledge the importance of the sector and the size of the interests that the Council represents;<br /><br /> * 20 corporate members<br /> * $14 billion of assets, and<br /> * Contributes significantly, through rates to the functions of Local Government. <br />/<br />But with so many legal resources trained on the process of the RMA is it any wonder that this law and its procedures have become so bound in litigation. Some of the litigation and resulting case law is of high value but much is a result of trying to protect vested interests of all sorts. When one looks through the case law and the investment this involves I become concerned about how much actually relates to environmental matters? I suggest very little.<br /><br />Rather too much in my view continues to be about property rights, commercial influences and the use of the RMA to advantage one party or the other in a trade or similar debate, using the RMA as another commercial battleground. And here I am referring to the supermarket circus that continues, altruistic shopping centres, petrol stations with very community minded concerns about traffic, etc. All consume valuable resources in the RMA process. However much of this is based upon the process rather than the fundamental tenets of the Act which was to be enabling provided this resulted in good environmental outcomes. </i><br />http://www.beehive.govt.nz/speech/property-council-nz-national-conference-2000-taurangajhnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-13696023250271633862011-03-12T18:10:45.497+13:002011-03-12T18:10:45.497+13:00These days cities suffer from a lack of open space...These days cities suffer from a lack of open space and human scale. Lake Victoria is a fine example of the sort of public building that made Christchurch a better place to live. Also (in future), band rotundas (gazebos), buildings using wood and stained glass. Hopefully as many people as possible will leave the garden city, leaving only the gardeners behind.jhnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-45288756005752841462011-03-11T21:30:54.079+13:002011-03-11T21:30:54.079+13:00Reading the history of Diamond Harbour it was the ...Reading the history of Diamond Harbour it was the Lyttelton Borough Council which owned and developed the land. It is a fallacy that developers will come up with the best outcome, just the most profitable. We need to encourage the participation of members of the public who care about the urban environment they live in.jhnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-80498689658097779242011-03-10T15:20:18.911+13:002011-03-10T15:20:18.911+13:00Agree with Brendon, Central City has been in a lon...Agree with Brendon, Central City has been in a long decline, and thats why we have a periphery of shopping malls, and alternative villages.<br />There is not enough money in the earthquake fund New Zealand to rebuild suburban infrastructure as well as the Central City.<br />Wait to you hear the insured value of the sewer system, and then later the real cost of repair and upgrade of sewer, communication channels, and roads.<br />Presently calculated at book value of a few billion, real cost astronomical, and beyond our means .peterquixotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15873112816453062068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-63799446846834552272011-03-10T13:24:40.499+13:002011-03-10T13:24:40.499+13:00Anonymous @ 9.52
I don't live in Christchurch...Anonymous @ 9.52<br /><br />I don't live in Christchurch and don't think myself better than others. <br /><br />But conformism and censoriousness are not desirable attributes. Nor are uniformity and mediocrity desirable goals.<br /><br />You really shouldn't have such a tender ego. It will make your life miserable.Victornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-21096744981816663722011-03-10T12:28:46.705+13:002011-03-10T12:28:46.705+13:00"it's difficult to see how our elected re..."it's difficult to see how our elected representatives can impose a prescription upon commercial developers"... actually no its not. <br /><br />Family members of mine in Christchurch built their home a decade ago. The commercial subdivision they purchased into prescribed minimum sizes for homes, limits on the number of levels, general levels and the building materials used. The process was simple enough and ensured that the entire area developed a uniformly positive character without fly-by-night developers coming in for a quick buck and ruining everyone else’s investment.<br /><br />If commercially driven subdivisions can enforce such tight rules for development then it is more than acceptable (if not preferable) for elected officials to do the same Brendan.<br /><br />I really hope Christchurch does enforce a theme for redevelopment that reinforces its past.Lozhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12064567381918975446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-22538114727316641552011-03-10T09:52:12.715+13:002011-03-10T09:52:12.715+13:00Sorry to say this, my sympathy for Christchurch re...Sorry to say this, my sympathy for Christchurch residents but the city did attract people who liked to think they were better than others. If this was due to the architecture, the earthquake has made a chance for the city to join the rest of New Zealand in the 21st century.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-76821172925787550572011-03-09T23:26:08.148+13:002011-03-09T23:26:08.148+13:00Other than imposing some arbitrary hight limits, g...Other than imposing some arbitrary hight limits, guidelines for colours and a formula for calculating car parks, it's difficult to see how our elected representatives can impose a prescription upon commercial developers, who, like it or not, have to generate a return upon their investment, or they simply invest elsewhere.<br /><br />The real risk we run is not that the city will be re-deveoped in an 'ad-hoc' and unpleasing way, but that it will not attract sufficient private investment to be re-developed at all.<br /><br />The CBD had been in steady decline for many years, and you could hardly blame developers and retailers for looking elsewhere to reinvest and re-establish their businesses.<br /><br />Personally, I hope that does not happen, and we do end up with a modern vibrant city we can all be proud of. That will mean allowing for freedom, creativity and innovation, rather than some arbitrary prescription thought up by a central committee.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17190324943334170206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-75826977250019374292011-03-09T22:02:24.818+13:002011-03-09T22:02:24.818+13:00First they need to decide if rebuilding several su...First they need to decide if rebuilding several suburbs on a swamp is a good idea.<br /><br />They should just rebuild in an intelligent way that satifies the needs of Christchurch, and worry less about stylistic (read: political) concerns. Even the Art-Deco style famous in Napier didn't get that label until after that fashion had passed, from what I understand - almost any contemporary style will be recognisably early-mid 21st Century.Adzehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11813585763033310686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-71832076727434743002011-03-09T16:05:14.246+13:002011-03-09T16:05:14.246+13:00An excellent post and an interesting and challengi...An excellent post and an interesting and challenging first response from Anonymous 1:33.Victornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-5278051609139795102011-03-09T13:33:29.880+13:002011-03-09T13:33:29.880+13:00Perhaps the garden city should be rebuilt as the g...Perhaps the garden city should be rebuilt as the green manufacturing hub of Te Tai Tonga - the South Island. Indeed a green manufacturing hub of the South Pacific.<br /><br />It has engineering expertise and an ex Mayor with an interest in clean energy. Do not forget that the green party has an MP based in Brownlee's Ilam, which also has a lot of students, who have provided great leadership as the student volunteer army, re-building their city, and coming to the aid of those in need. Labour also has an MP in the center of the city - he is Labour's climate and water spokesperson. <br /><br />New Zealand needs a low carbon economy if it wants to be a climate leader and to rebuild its economy, we need green jobs - what better place for out greentech center that Christchurch. <br /><br />Wellington has a Green Mayor and Auckland has talked about becoming an Eco City, widering what was originally a concept from the West, from Waitakere.<br /><br />What would a world class, modern and green/low carbon Christchurch look like? It would treasure its heritage, and rebuild for a bright future. The building begins.<br /><br />The ashes of Christchurch, will be used to fertilize the garden city.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com