Councils Holding the Country to Ransom

[eri]

red penny

thinks she's fit to bankrupt auckland

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11344414

[flyernzl]

All houses that are sold are, by definition, 'affordable'.

Someone has been able to afford to buy them.

[mrsaneperson]

red penny

thinks she's fit to bankrupt auckland

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=11344414

Quote from Penny "Loyal to the Mayor & would never stand against him"...Thats all i need to read. Just another lackey.

[Davo36]

Penny has all the same whacky planning ideas he does. So a change of mayor to her wouldn't help.

[eri]

the difference between them

is that lenny backed off his grandiose spending plans to keep rates rises reasonable

penny wouldn't have spent a penny less

[Perry]

Lots of pun options, there.

[elguapo]

Quote from Penny "Loyal to the Mayor & would never stand against him"...Thats all i need to read. Just another lackey.

That quote usually means they are about to knife the person they are 'loyal' too and take their job....

[eri]

buck-passing wimp!

the slow paperwork shufflers

are blaming hold-ups on the people who actually build the houses that fix the problem created by the paperwork circle-jerk

i hope the functional gov

takes the whole consent process off

this dysfunctional lefty council

In the special housing areas three or four houses had been built and they were in Manurewa, Mr Brown said.

"That's not many, but what we're doing is going through the process...of enabling these new consented areas to actually get going."
There were 32 consents for the areas issued, he said.

"We provide the consent, the builders actually do the building - we don't do the building - if they don't get into the building as soon as the consent's provided that's not our problem."

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/markets/ne...ectid=11345168

[PC]

Why do they need "special" consent areas?
Why aren't the rest of us special? sob!

[Leftette]

Oh, you're special, PC. You're definitely special.

[PC]

Ta. You're too kind!
Can I build a house now??

[Damap]

Not specifically council but still cone heads. Rung our water company to find out if we could change our back tenants check meter to a full meter. Yes you can they replied but as we would have to put the new meter on the council berm you will have to pay infrastructure development fees in addition to the $178 meter.
Oh and how much is that I asked.
$10,500 they said with a straight face. What is that for I asked. Well anything that places added demand on the infrastructure gets charged for. I pointed out that the tenant already used the water as they had done for 27 years. We were just changing the type of meter. Still it's $10,500.
Speechless.......

[eri]

Ta. You're too kind!
Can I build a house now??

that depends

can you afford to write a blank cheque to get your consent?

and

can you guarantee to build the house, if we approve it, in less time than it took to get the consent, (which we can't provide a timeline for)?

oh

we're not sure how much we'll be charging you to upgrade the local infra-structure yet, but we'll want that in cash

before we even look at your consent

but don't worry

if we chose not to approve your consent, you'll get the infra-structure charges back

but not the thousands you'll spend on the reports you'll need before we start

remember

we are building the world's best city

and it'll take a lot of your money

maybe even enough that you'll have to move somewhere else

not to worry, plenty cashed up people ready to take your place

[flyernzl]

Still it's $10,500.

Obviously not Auckland.

Watercare charges $12,000 here.

[Davo36]

Damap, yep, they've been charging these sorts of things for some time now.

How else can they pay their CEO $800k+ per annum?