Tuesday 10 March 2020

CBD wreckage is suburb's opportunity

Assault by urban planning and the outbreak of viral car-phobia in city hall is bad news for CBD business owners. Further out, hopefully out of planner range, local businesses are seeing opportunities.


Dunedin water quality - deferred spending has shocking cost now

Retired engineer Murray Petrie knows a thing or 2. 

This article appeared before the last local body elections. One way and another, largely by dumping experienced permanent employees as a cost-saving measure then hiring consultants who naturally lack knowledge of what happened in the past the city developed institutional amnesia. 

Every now and then an "old timer" pops up with reminders. 
 
*What worked, what didn't, 
any perverse incentives that worked against best decisions, 
any unintended consequences.