With Sir Peter Jackson and Dame Fran Walsh buying the land, that seems like a surprisingly agreeable outcome…

Thoughts?

  • Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz
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    Fantastic, that road would never support the number of houses without destroying all the beaches on the way

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      Indeed - growing pains and infrastructure neglect (or in this case, absence?), rather not…

      Why does our port always have ‘several brazillion’ logs lying around all year - I’ll admit I never really know if/when they’re cycled through and tearing down the port for high density housing is probably a terrible idea, but it doesn’t seem to be that well utilized, is central and had lots of infrastructure support

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        The logs go out on ships regularly. Forestry and selling timber overseas is one of our better industries. I know it doesn’t look that lively but trust me it’s generating economic things.

        I want them to just build some more dense housing in the suburbs that connect well to the central city, so people can live and work there without having to own a car or commute from afar.

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          Thanks. As for building in the suburbs, apart from petone where else could handle another 500 occupants? (And that roadside drive is regularly saturated as it is!)

          Without going all SimCity and rezoning and destroying something like Mt Vic, the only other idea I’ve got is high density apartments where Reading was

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            There’s lots of places even in the central city that could fit some apartment blocks, I think.

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        I wouldn’t buy any property built on that land, it would get wrecked by liquefaction in the next quake.

        Just look at the damage the last one did, they had to pull down multiple buildings, and also lost a lot of wharf space.

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      Yup, and there’s quite a few that have been buried already, especially on the other side of Evan’s Bay.

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    I hope we will see some development, a decent café you can land a sea kayak in front of would be a good addition to the area.