Mixed-use is a fantastic template for a building, given we can then roll up so many extra bungalows and their hoarded greenspace to be re-wilded (or zoned back agri) or shared as parkland.
But this is a plan for new builds. Rendering some floors to housing doesn’t magically fix the issue that every floor is unsuitable as housing without extensive remodel. It just means some floors stay as office and some floors are unsuitable for housing, same as before.
Moratorium on non-mixed-use
Moratorium on sub-20-level buildings
Increase shared greenspace requirements
Increased tax inversely proportional to density due to users-per-metre of infrastructure
Rental income over and above a value related to a single average income per 2 beds is taxed brutally - but let the air b&bs back (with innkeeper licensing and that tax shelf)
Minimum living-space-per-human values, reducing that ceiling if undersized. Because renting out a shed like a house is inhumane
Added property tax if the building is >50yo and fails rule 1+2 above.
Hint: enough that “let’s make them offices” isn’t a bad default. But read why and think to yourself whether you know offices and whether any fit the bill as being unsuitable.
I’ve seen several retrofit projects
While we can use facts to then assess buildings ourselves - one of our huge benefits as a human - the plural of anecdote is still not data.
Lawyers do need to comport themselves properly, and can’t engage in things that may tarnish the respect for the legal system now that they’re members of the bar.
Fucking hokum qualifies as an example of the kind of fraudulent whackadoo shit that needs to attract a disbarment hearing.
I don’t think it’s the government’s job, place, or right to tell people what they can and can’t put in their own bodies.
Nope. That’s the job of people who’ve worked their entire lives studying how to prolong our lifespan and improve our health; and those people advise the people we trust the most to guide our work, safety and consumer products regulations.
“Mom and dad have too many rules” was kinda lame when it was about wearing a toque. You need to understand it better by now.
Yes. New Zealand is infected by conservatives again, and the only alternative to re-opening sales of cigarettes to children to get more tax money was to tax the rich people at all. And that will not do.
As a poor kid living in the interior, skiing was always a rich kid thing. I hated Tad and Chad and Brad and all the Alicias and Felicias. So I have absolutely no sympathy for them after they spent a month to prep their Range Rover Pillager for the jaunt up the hill so they can show off their new Bugaboo shades.
We need that rain or everything that does matter is super-fucked. I’m okay if some of my friends (and their friends) don’t need to hump into the bush to try to stop the fire-tsunami that’s coming.