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Richard Hills: Auckland Councillor on the Government watering down the Auckland housing intensification plan · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Government's reducing the housing density plan yet again. First they
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  Speaker 1: said two million new homes in Auckland, then a lowered
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  Speaker 1: that to one point six. Now Bishops is one point four.
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  Speaker 1: Richard Hill's Aukland City councilor hey Richard, how.
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  Speaker 2: Are you cured it? How's it going good?
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  Speaker 1: Does it actually matter this number? Does it actually mean anything?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the overall number, no matter what it is,
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  Speaker 2: is a capacity target, So it's if every single person
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  Speaker 2: develops their property to the fullest height and sur size possible,
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  Speaker 2: like everyone. So kind of it's not It's always been
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  Speaker 2: a theoretical figure anyway. But the one point four was
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  Speaker 2: a surprise. I think the day before we were expected
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  Speaker 2: one point six, as we we've been working on the
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  Speaker 2: last six weeks, and then it changed to one point four.
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  Speaker 2: But here's the complicated bit that everyone won't understand. But
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  Speaker 2: the National Policy Statement for Urban Development, which is a
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  Speaker 2: legal requirement, and that's the apps earning around stations and towns,
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  Speaker 2: enters and all that sort of thing, will require us
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  Speaker 2: to get to about one point six anyway, So the
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  Speaker 2: one point four is really a moot point because to
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  Speaker 2: do all the things that we legally have to do
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  Speaker 2: across the city. It gets us to about one point six.
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  Speaker 2: We're just slightly under.
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  Speaker 1: So in short, in short, the one point four doesn't
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  Speaker 1: mean much. Let's not read too much into it.
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  Speaker 2: What what's just politics? Ifect where?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, where does the does it change where you
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  Speaker 1: zone where you allow high rises to go?
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  Speaker 2: The number that changed not really, it means that we're not,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I guess pushing to put it that little
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  Speaker 2: bit further, maybe with a bit of additional height around
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  Speaker 2: the place, but really we're still going to be zoning.
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  Speaker 2: You know. Where this came from was that that mdrs
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  Speaker 2: three stories on every single property. We've already moved to
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  Speaker 2: a situation where it makes a bit more sense around
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  Speaker 2: where infrastructure is and where the jobs are and things
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  Speaker 2: like that. This again, we asked for this flexibility, but
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  Speaker 2: we didn't ask through a solid number. But now now
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  Speaker 2: it's largely the same as it was a couple of
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  Speaker 2: days ago, because because we have to get to around
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  Speaker 2: one point six anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Okay, it sounds like a bit of a waste
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  Speaker 1: of time. Do you have maps, David Seamour says, you
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  Speaker 1: guys have got maps. Have you been shown any maps
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  Speaker 1: of where the houses will actually end.
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  Speaker 2: Up, so we don't this. This is the confusion as well.
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  Speaker 2: There's never a system where we just put in a
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  Speaker 2: number and then a map spits out the other end.
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  Speaker 2: The way it works is we put all the different
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  Speaker 2: controls in, so you know, six stories around centers and
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  Speaker 2: ten stories around translations, and move it around here, et cetera,
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  Speaker 2: and then you put all that data into the system
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  Speaker 2: and all the controls change the shape of the map.
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  Speaker 2: We haven't done that work. I've been working six weeks
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  Speaker 2: with everyone to get them to understand the one point
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  Speaker 2: six and say here are the options how you could
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  Speaker 2: do it, where you might remove it from. Then it
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  Speaker 2: has to go into like a whole modeling system because
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  Speaker 2: every part of the city is different. So some areas
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  Speaker 2: have sections that are like six hundred square meters and
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  Speaker 2: then other parts of the city about eight or nine hundred.
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  Speaker 2: So every time you move some of the zoning, then
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  Speaker 2: that means something quite different in each part of the city.
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  Speaker 2: So it's not just as simple as clicking a switch
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  Speaker 2: or pressing a button as some people think, which changes
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  Speaker 2: the maps. So there's no map. There's no magical maps
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  Speaker 2: that we've got anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Lichend Hell's Aorten Council. I appreciate your time.
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