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Mace Ward: Auckland Council Group Recovery Manager on the purchase of flood-affected homes · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Augan councils vosted on the future of land destroyed by floods.
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  Speaker 1: By the end of this year, more than twelve hundred
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  Speaker 1: high risk homes will have been purchased at a cost
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  Speaker 1: of three hundred and fifty two million dollars, and a
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  Speaker 1: large amount of the land will be retained for flood resilience.
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  Speaker 1: Mace wards with Auckland Council's recovery offices with me now, Mace.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning Ryan.
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  Speaker 1: Quite a bit of land. Where is it all in
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  Speaker 1: clumps or is it individual properties randomly spread out? What
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  Speaker 1: are we talking?
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  Speaker 2: It's a mix, I guess. So there are some clusters
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  Speaker 2: of properties that are in clumps of areas that were
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  Speaker 2: really adversely affected during those twenty twenty three storms. And
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  Speaker 2: then then there's areas spread across the region where either
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  Speaker 2: landslipe or flooding are queued.
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  Speaker 1: Where does the money come from, because it's quite a chunk.
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  Speaker 2: That is a chunk, and just to for those twelve
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  Speaker 2: hundred properties, it's over one point two billion dollars between
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  Speaker 2: the Crown and the council funding. So it's a significant
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  Speaker 2: investments in future resilience for Auckland and ensuring people are
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  Speaker 2: removed from that intolerable risk to life that was so
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  Speaker 2: critical during that time. So the money comes from the
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  Speaker 2: Crown and ratepayers, so it's fifty to fifty funding split.
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  Speaker 1: The thirty percent I've seen that you estimate thirty percent
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  Speaker 1: of the land could actually be developed, so you could
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  Speaker 1: end up with housing on some of this land.
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  Speaker 2: That's correct, I mean, this really matters, So it will
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  Speaker 2: take time, but our current current modeling shows that with
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  Speaker 2: some further investment in flood resilience for example, So this
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  Speaker 2: is the making space for water program and a different
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  Speaker 2: development form than the homes that were there in a
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  Speaker 2: brown field sense. You know, we think there is around
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  Speaker 2: thirty percent that could be redeveloped for safe residential use.
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  Speaker 1: What happens to the rest of it? Does it just
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  Speaker 1: sit there and you know as a flood zone of options?
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  Speaker 2: So yes, some of it will be used for the
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  Speaker 2: Blue Green network and making space for water, so it
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  Speaker 2: will be actually daylighting streams to make more space to
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  Speaker 2: water and that that those areas will be amenity for
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  Speaker 2: use by people when when it's not flooding. So think
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  Speaker 2: about long linear parks down stream sides where there's walking
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  Speaker 2: paths and the like but when it floods, that space
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  Speaker 2: is there and people will be will be safe, and
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  Speaker 2: other other locations, it's possible in those sporadic locations to
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  Speaker 2: potentially neighbors to buy that land for a non residential use,
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  Speaker 2: increase the size of their garden that time back.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate that. Thanks for your time this morning, mas Ward
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  Speaker 1: from All Than Council's Recovery office. For more Familily edition
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