Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: So what now?, in reply to Matthew Hooton,
As Clark and Key have taught us, part of the effectiveness of a policy is how it is received and accepted by the public, rather than how it reads in a university or think tank environment.
Leadership sometimes involves putting longer-term evidence-based policy ahead of what the polls say right now. Good leaders work hard to bring enough people with them to get the change through.
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Hard News: So what now?, in reply to Glenn Pearce,
the Council will still be represented at the IHP
Did you catch Mr Duguid's promise that council's experts will refuse to testify to the original proposed plan which no longer conforms with later evidence they considered, to preserve their professional integrity with the panel?
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Access: Social media, disability…, in reply to Angela Hart,
Lawyers lawyer the Spencer case:
the ways that Ms Spencer's case differed from the original Atkinson decision, saying that claim had been about Disability Support Services while Ms Spencer's was more about residential care.
...The Crown also made mention of "natural support", an argument it ran in the Atkinson case which says that caring for a disabled family member is part of some unspoken social contract - a duty that families have - and in Ms Spencer's case, choose to have instead of sending Paul to a residential facility.
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OnPoint: Yeah nah, but what *do* we…, in reply to Matthew Hooton,
I think we'll head to the 22nd century with current flag and King George.
Demographic change may disagree on that - depending how many of our new citizens defer to hereditary authority.
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Speaker: Correcting Auckland 2040's…, in reply to Marc C,
Yes, future population is a government concern. Stop acting as if the council is *engineering* growth, is all I ask.
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RNZ's Todd Niall says today's meeting will not end well, whatever happens.
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Transportblog notes the potential, if councillors wimp out today, for government agencies to prevail at the hearings panel and achieve higher densities than Council proposed. That's the 'own goal' Hulse referred to.
There's also the possibility that if councillors prove they aren't leaders, govt may just replace them like they did with ECan.
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Speaker: Correcting Auckland 2040's…, in reply to Marc C,
the Auckland Plan wants growth
Again, population growth in Auckland is going to happen, whether we plan to cope with it or not. We have decades of evidence of what ignoring it results in. Time to grow up and plan ahead properly.
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Looks like Bernard is right about tomorrow's vote:
Councillors plan to remove council submissions from UnitaryPanel hearings on zonings. Good move guys, leave it to Govt to rezone. # owngoal
Far from usual wording from our Deputy Mayor - that's pure frustration.
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Metro's Simon Wilson offers a great clear summary of the twisted process accompanied by an open letter to Councillors before tomorrow's meeting.
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