Housing shortage: Cr Lee Vandervis's view

Posted on January 9, 2020 by Lee Vandervis

The DCC 2GP has made the housing crisis worse, 

                                          but ODT Hawkins-friendly reporter Chris Morris fails to mention that Crs Hawkins and Benson-Pope were highly-paid Cull-appointed commissioners on the 2GP that pushed through the crazy zoning and other rules that have reduced building options in Dunedin and made the few available sections unaffordable.

Reporter Morris does say that the DCC Second Generation Plan “had been blamed for holding up the development of hundreds of new homes”, and says that “The 2PG itself has also been described by one property developer as “broken” despite rezoning 190ha of new land for residential development.”

Reporter Morris fails to report that Hawkins and Benson-Pope pushed through new harsher 2GP rules for residential building in rural and semi-rural areas where the 15 ha rule for a house has been increased to a draconian 40 hectares, massively decreasing housing section possibilities, and massively devaluing many rural and semi-rural property values.

Morris fails to mention the absurd 2GP rule for granny flats requiring them to be only for a family member…

“Mr Hawkins favoured infill development over urban sprawl” says Morris, but in fact his green ideology has limited both – the 2GP won’t let you build in the country hills and the 2GP absurd requirements for houses on the low-lying flat to be ‘relocatable’ means you can’t build economically on the flat either.

The housing ‘crisis’ has been created by those that now disallow a quick fix because of their ideologies.

 

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/dcc/no-quick-housing-fix-dunedin-mayor-says

Housing shortage, Mayor's view

Thursday, 9 January 2020

No quick housing fix, Dunedin mayor says

By Chris Morris

 

  Dunedin's housing ‘‘crisis’’ will get worse before it gets better, Mayor Aaron Hawkins says.

He was commenting on new figures from CoreLogic which showed the average price of a house in Dunedin had jumped 18% and, at $514,680, was now above that found in Christchurch ($507,852).Mr Hawkins said a lack of new housing, including greenfields developments, was one factor driving up prices, but there was no quick fix.


The council had recently resolved an appeal against the city’s second generation district plan (2GP), which had been blamed for holding up the development of hundreds of new homes.

The 2GP itself had also been described by one property developer as ‘‘broken’’, despite rezoning 190ha of new land for residential development - providing space for up to 1200 new homes - and identifying a further 132ha of land for future development once needed.

Work on the 2GP began when Dunedin was expected to continue for decades as a low-growth city with a population of fewer than 130,000.
Council staff had since had to revise plans after the city moved into a medium growth phase as its population passed 130,000 in 2018.

Abridged, full story at https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/dcc/no-quick-housing-fix-dunedin-mayor-says