ACT wants to subdivide the Waitakere Ranges (or at least the foothills)

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1. Ad 1

   8 August 2017 at 7:52 am

   I think the civil subcontractors in western Auckland would have a good idea of what would happen to their vehicles if they tried.

   The proposal to fell just one Kauri tree in Titirangi drew a few hundred.

   Watercare proposing to develop in Oratia activated thousands.

   Anything other than fulfilling the compact city based around rail stations that was promised in the 1990s would be fought directly, by tens of thousands.
   • Pete 1.1

     8 August 2017 at 7:59 am

     Tens of thousands will vote for Seymour in Epsom so he can continue his great deeds. His dweebish boyish charm may have them by the balls but if their eyesight was any good they’d see him as the slimy little hypocrite he is.
   • mickysavage 1.2

     8 August 2017 at 8:58 am

     Yep the people’s republic of Waitakere will not take too kindly to his proposal.
     • Cemetery Jones 1.2.1

       9 August 2017 at 1:18 pm

       Sounds like something worth making some noise about. Those people up the road from me in Titirangi sure like to party [party vote blue team, that is]. I wonder if this party would be over if they realised that their nice cedar homes peacefully nestled in the bush will soon be defiled by mass deforestation to make way for a Botany Downs lookalike exurb? Imagine trying to get a table at Hardware with all that going on!
2. Cinny 2

   8 August 2017 at 8:08 am

   Ripping up a forest to build houses… reals? Dang.
3. Gareth Wilson 3

   8 August 2017 at 9:26 am

   Does Auckland really need housing for 1.2 million more people?
   • indiana 3.1

     8 August 2017 at 10:39 am

     Yes, even more! Sydney can hold all of NZ’s population – why fear large a metropolis?
     • McFlock 3.1.1

       8 August 2017 at 1:58 pm

       need vs want.

       And the AucklandRegion, including Waitakere ranges, is already approaching Sydney’s population density.
4. Brokenback 4

   8 August 2017 at 9:42 am

   Does anybody outside of great wall of Epsom take these clowns seriously?
   • greg 4.1

     8 August 2017 at 6:46 pm

     they proposed intensifying Epsom and the nact voters hand a fit but west Auckland no problem
   • Draco T Bastard 4.2

     8 August 2017 at 6:49 pm

     No.
5. Steve Wrathall 5

   8 August 2017 at 1:47 pm

   If you are not prepared to allow more land to build houses on, then you will see more people living in garages. It is as simple as that
   • Draco T Bastard 5.1

     8 August 2017 at 2:44 pm

     False dichotomy.

     But really can’t expect anything else from an ACToid.

     We could, as most modern cities have done, build high-rise apartment buildings and terraced housing allowing for growth in population without using up more land.

     Of course, doing that would upset the land-bankers who have been planning on their untaxed capital gains.
     • Steve Wrathall 5.1.1

       8 August 2017 at 5:20 pm

       Ah yes, the Kiwi dream. Stalinist apartment blocks clustered around railway stations
       • greywarshark 5.1.1.1

         8 August 2017 at 5:44 pm

         It is interesting tracing the twitters that draw an outline of Mr Wrathall’s mind. https://twitter.com/stevehwrathall?lang=en
         • Draco T Bastard 5.1.1.1.1

           8 August 2017 at 6:47 pm

           He has a mind?
       • Draco T Bastard 5.1.1.2

         8 August 2017 at 6:46 pm

         You mean like these ones and these ones and these ones and these ones and these ones and these ones and these ones?

         I mean, like, WOW, I didn’t realise that there were so many Stalinists in our business community.
6. dv 6

   8 August 2017 at 2:17 pm

   Tokyo land area 2188 s km population 9.3 million
   Auckland 1086 sq Km population 1.4 million

   SO AT Tokyo pop density, auckland could support population 4.6 million

   Bit simplistic, but need to go up.
7. Draco T Bastard 7

   8 August 2017 at 2:40 pm

   “These areas are not treasured natural landscapes. They are grassy fields with the occasional barn or horse.

   “Allowing housing in these areas should be a bare minimum for any Government.”

   I take it that ACToids don’t like eating.

   Here is the ACT’s map. The blue is the current urban form and the yellow is where it wants to allow subdivision to occur.

   Did you note that that map really isn’t all that clear as to where the new subdivisions would be? You can’t accurately trace it’s coloured areas onto an actual map or photo.

   This matches well onto the various forms of lying.

   The method that Seymour is using, the removal of the rural urban boundary will also have unintended consequences. If there is no boundary for Auckland’s growh then why shouldn’t there be increased subdivision at Piha and Karekare and Bethells Te Henga …

   I’d say that’s not an unintended consequence. That’d be exactly what they want. Piha is ripe for a high-rise hotel or five.
   • Steve Wrathall 7.1

     8 August 2017 at 5:22 pm

     Where did you get this odd idea that food needs to be grown at the doorstep of a city in order to eat? This is not the middle ages.
     • Draco T Bastard 7.1.1

       8 August 2017 at 6:40 pm

       And where else are you going to grow food? On the moon perhaps?

       Oh, wait, no that’d have to have a city there which you’d probably grow the food on the outskirts of.

       Oh, I know, within the city itself. Yeah, that’d do it. High-rise vertical farming ftw. I can just imagine the joy that the ACToids would have at having their low level city dwellings shaded by huge farms.

       PS, I’m a supporter of the Venus Project but that’s because it’ll allow us to return all that farm land to the wild which I doubt that you’re after.
8. savenz 8

   8 August 2017 at 4:37 pm

   ACT is just National party right wingers, who use ACT to get more electoral seats than they are entitled too, and to push out policy that 95% of the public don’t want, and pretend it’s not coming from National.

   Remember the supercity?

   Charter schools?

   Now ACT or NACT tearing down the few bits of forest we have left in Auckland so that it can be sold off to developers, not sure who is paying for the transport, waste water and infrastructure up grades and how many more cafes can exist in Auckland, driving the low wage economy here.

   In fact everywhere I go now, boarded up shops in fairly posh areas of Auckland. Make no mistake, businesses in particular cafe’s and food outlets are going bust in the city of sales. (pun intended).

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