Christchurch’s Mayor is back with John MacDonald to discuss the biggest stories from the week that was.
The Government is giving the Housing Minister the power to overrule local councils, and Phil Mauger has some strong opinions on the topic.
Housing intensification is still on the docket, but he’s made it clear they’ll be pushing back against it all the way.
And why are there so many leafblowers out and about? Is that a good use of taxpayer money?
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Canterbury Morning's Podcast with John McDonald
from news Talk ZB morning.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Just gone seven past ten and it's that time again
to catch up with christ Church mayor film Major good
a film.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Are you doing well?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
How are you doing? It seems to me that the
government's got you guys in its line of sight. An
attack on democracy is how I'm interpreting it. With the
housingman aster saying he's going to have the rights to
come in and tinker with your plans. What's your reaction
to that.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I'm sort of blown away. I'm sort of actually quite disappointed.
You know. I'll support anything that helps christ Church and
Cannery for that matter, so that helps anything economy grow.
And I am a very strong believer in localism and
local democracy and listening to what the people that are
under our watch are a saying to us.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Is the government showing that it's also a believer in
local democracy?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
It didn't seem to I still can't understand why National
jumped into bed with labor over intensification, stay there for
a couple of months and then jump straight out again.
We were the only counsel that pushed back on it
to the government and we just the main thing we
didn't want is an Auckland and Wellington problem dropped on
top of us. So then the government gave us an
(01:22):
observer who was a great, great guy, and we listened
to the people at boters is in and we worked
on getting the best result for everyone. And the other
thing is christ Church is consenting just over twice as
many homes as Wellington, So how Wellington can be held
up as the model for how to do it? And
Canterbury has got the best economic growth in the country,
(01:44):
So let's look at it.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Let's go ahead. So the government does do what it's
talking about, knocks on your door and says, no, we
don't like their plan. We're taking those bits out. How
would you deal with that?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
We'll have to cross that bridge when we come to it,
and we'll be pushing back all the way, you know,
we know, And we have allowed for a lot of
intensification of long transport hich we've got that going already.
But the one thing that the majority of people didn't
want is intensification in the suburbs. And we call it
three on three. Now, John, if you bought a section
out and haus also for example, going to build a
(02:16):
nice new house set to run around on the backyard,
build if you want to do. And I bought the
section next door and as a right could put three
stories right one meter from your fence. Should be a
wee bit upset. And that was what the people want
and didn't want, and that's what we were really pushing
back on. Right.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I'll come back to that. But are you saying that
the government has a fight on its hands.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Well, I think so, Well, we've got to. I'm pushing
through everyone in Christis because that's what they want it
and we wonder why the government wonders why we we
know how good Christich So I wonder why people are
moving to Critch from Auckland and Wellington. We'll go figure,
because that's what people bloody will want.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Hey, I was reading something earlier in the week that
it seems that maybe the crisis counts that is going
to get the exemption. It was after after all, was
going to clarify that.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Well this I was writinging the paper this morning that
they call that the MDRS medium density, that's what we
refer to as three on three. But I've read in
the paper this morning that that's sort of on the
block as well, And that's the bit. So I'll go
to war on because no one here wants that.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
When you say you'll go to war on, what do
you mean.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Well, I'll jump up and down and wave my arms
around and do as much as I can because no one,
no one in christ Which wants it. We've got intensification
down all the routes. We said we'd get twenty thousand
people in the middle of the fore as by twenty twenty,
we're not going to achieve that. We've still got plenty
of land and there are a lot of As you
drive around town you see a lot of intensification happening already.
(03:47):
So we're well on it. But we just don't need
that Auckland Wellington stuff forced down our throat all right.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I've noticed over the last wee while, certainly during autumn,
that there have been contractors out on the street. In fact,
one was outside my studio window the other day with
leaf blowers blowing leaves out of the gardens onto the
road and within about ten minutes they're blown back onto
the garden area. Again, good use of right payer money.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
This is actually a revelation to me, John, because you
spend most of your time running around saying how much
the council sucks. And now you're telling us we're blowing
leaves around the load of places. This is this is
good news. This is good news for my ears.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Very good, very good.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
But what I did at a homework and what we do.
I noticed in some of the parks opposite the terrace,
they run all the leaves don't fall out of the
tree on the same day, so they blow them out
of the way as best they can. They might be
blowing them onto the road, hopefully the road sweep had
come along and get them, but they blow them under
the trees and so that they can do that a
number of times. And then you'll see. Now I noticed
(04:43):
that yesterday walking around town. They're starting to pick up
the big bundles of leaders that they blew right.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah, but do you think it's nuts that right outside
my window they blow it onto the ride, traffic comes
across it, and the movement of the traffic blows the
leads back into the garden in ten minutes back to
where they started.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
That does seem a bit daft to me. If it
was on grafts like what the guy's looking at, I
can understand that, but that that does them but does
not have a look at it all? Right?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
How come those lights are op running again on Manchester Street,
the ones that everybody hates that are supposed to help
with traffic flow. Is that trial over now?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Apparently I wanted the trial to keep going. What we've
got we've got a report coming to us now because
they've done homework on how it didn't affect the buses,
and the buses were happy, and people listen to what
I said, Please let the buses out, otherwise these things
to be back. There was only a three week trial.
I see they've taken the covers off, but there is
a report coming to us to hopefully it all. Say
(05:39):
take them out, but also take some of the little
there's little buildouts out right out in front of the church.
There's a build out there. Get rid of that so
the bus can move across the intersection without having to
pull out into the main drag. So that's coming to us.
So I'll check on that. When it's going to be
with us, I'm sure it's very soon, and I'll let
(06:00):
you know.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
All right, because it made a world of difference, trust me, Hey,
and just quickly, what's happening with the council building. It
sounds like that earthquake threatens get getting worse by the day.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Well, no, it's not. It's not any worse than it is.
What we've got. We've got that. We've got the main building,
which is one hundred percent. We've got the add on,
which is actually eighty percent, but the joint between the
two has been deemed at forty percent, so that makes
the add on forty percent.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Right.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
So it was all designed and it was all built
and done properly. This was before the earthquake, but in
just a general sort of by night tahu or and
so the building going around just checking how everything's behaving,
it was noted that maybe that joint, even though it
was designed and built properly, needs to be looked at.
So it has been looked bad. And the best thing
(06:49):
we did that once Mary and I found out, has
moved everyone out of that out of that area, and
a lot of the start is very thankful for that,
because we talk about forty percent. Here, we are running
around as a council telling everyone else in the city
they've got to build to sixty seven or higher or
whatever they want, and we're forty. Well, we're with bloody
hypocript so we've got so what are you going to do? No, no, no,
(07:11):
it's it's at the moment. It's we're getting the planned drawn.
It'll go to a designer, get the link done. If
we could be out of that part of the building
for the next six months, that's what could happen.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
All right, Okay, I know we're going to say it.
What's your pick for the rugby on Saturday night?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Yeah? Oh, Canary of course, but it's not going to
be well, it wasn't easy last week, as you know,
Canary of course, but it.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Will be difficult all right. And it's not going to
be roudy either with no cow bells.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
So I believe. I'm sure some people are trying to
make someone but I didn't say that. Of course.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Is that what you is that what you would do
if you're a Chiefs fan?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
I can possibly say, John, all right.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
We're talking a fortnight. Thanks Bill. Enjoy the long weekend.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
For more from Caterbory Mornings with John McDonald, listen live
to news Talks It'd be christ Church from nine am weekdays.
Follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Canterbury Morning's Podcast with John McDonald
from news Talk ZB morning.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Just gone seven past ten and it's that time again
to catch up with christ Church mayor film Major good
a film.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Are you doing well?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
How are you doing? It seems to me that the
government's got you guys in its line of sight. An
attack on democracy is how I'm interpreting it. With the
housingman aster saying he's going to have the rights to
come in and tinker with your plans. What's your reaction
to that.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I'm sort of blown away. I'm sort of actually quite disappointed.
You know. I'll support anything that helps christ Church and
Cannery for that matter, so that helps anything economy grow.
And I am a very strong believer in localism and
local democracy and listening to what the people that are
under our watch are a saying to us.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Is the government showing that it's also a believer in
local democracy?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
It didn't seem to I still can't understand why National
jumped into bed with labor over intensification, stay there for
a couple of months and then jump straight out again.
We were the only counsel that pushed back on it
to the government and we just the main thing we
didn't want is an Auckland and Wellington problem dropped on
top of us. So then the government gave us an
(01:22):
observer who was a great, great guy, and we listened
to the people at boters is in and we worked
on getting the best result for everyone. And the other
thing is christ Church is consenting just over twice as
many homes as Wellington, So how Wellington can be held
up as the model for how to do it? And
Canterbury has got the best economic growth in the country,
(01:44):
So let's look at it.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Let's go ahead. So the government does do what it's
talking about, knocks on your door and says, no, we
don't like their plan. We're taking those bits out. How
would you deal with that?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
We'll have to cross that bridge when we come to it,
and we'll be pushing back all the way, you know,
we know, And we have allowed for a lot of
intensification of long transport hich we've got that going already.
But the one thing that the majority of people didn't
want is intensification in the suburbs. And we call it
three on three. Now, John, if you bought a section
out and haus also for example, going to build a
(02:16):
nice new house set to run around on the backyard,
build if you want to do. And I bought the
section next door and as a right could put three
stories right one meter from your fence. Should be a
wee bit upset. And that was what the people want
and didn't want, and that's what we were really pushing
back on. Right.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I'll come back to that. But are you saying that
the government has a fight on its hands.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Well, I think so, Well, we've got to. I'm pushing
through everyone in Christis because that's what they want it
and we wonder why the government wonders why we we
know how good Christich So I wonder why people are
moving to Critch from Auckland and Wellington. We'll go figure,
because that's what people bloody will want.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Hey, I was reading something earlier in the week that
it seems that maybe the crisis counts that is going
to get the exemption. It was after after all, was
going to clarify that.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Well this I was writinging the paper this morning that
they call that the MDRS medium density, that's what we
refer to as three on three. But I've read in
the paper this morning that that's sort of on the
block as well, And that's the bit. So I'll go
to war on because no one here wants that.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
When you say you'll go to war on, what do
you mean.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Well, I'll jump up and down and wave my arms
around and do as much as I can because no one,
no one in christ Which wants it. We've got intensification
down all the routes. We said we'd get twenty thousand
people in the middle of the fore as by twenty twenty,
we're not going to achieve that. We've still got plenty
of land and there are a lot of As you
drive around town you see a lot of intensification happening already.
(03:47):
So we're well on it. But we just don't need
that Auckland Wellington stuff forced down our throat all right.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I've noticed over the last wee while, certainly during autumn,
that there have been contractors out on the street. In fact,
one was outside my studio window the other day with
leaf blowers blowing leaves out of the gardens onto the
road and within about ten minutes they're blown back onto
the garden area. Again, good use of right payer money.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
This is actually a revelation to me, John, because you
spend most of your time running around saying how much
the council sucks. And now you're telling us we're blowing
leaves around the load of places. This is this is
good news. This is good news for my ears.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Very good, very good.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
But what I did at a homework and what we do.
I noticed in some of the parks opposite the terrace,
they run all the leaves don't fall out of the
tree on the same day, so they blow them out
of the way as best they can. They might be
blowing them onto the road, hopefully the road sweep had
come along and get them, but they blow them under
the trees and so that they can do that a
number of times. And then you'll see. Now I noticed
(04:43):
that yesterday walking around town. They're starting to pick up
the big bundles of leaders that they blew right.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah, but do you think it's nuts that right outside
my window they blow it onto the ride, traffic comes
across it, and the movement of the traffic blows the
leads back into the garden in ten minutes back to
where they started.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
That does seem a bit daft to me. If it
was on grafts like what the guy's looking at, I
can understand that, but that that does them but does
not have a look at it all? Right?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
How come those lights are op running again on Manchester Street,
the ones that everybody hates that are supposed to help
with traffic flow. Is that trial over now?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Apparently I wanted the trial to keep going. What we've
got we've got a report coming to us now because
they've done homework on how it didn't affect the buses,
and the buses were happy, and people listen to what
I said, Please let the buses out, otherwise these things
to be back. There was only a three week trial.
I see they've taken the covers off, but there is
a report coming to us to hopefully it all. Say
(05:39):
take them out, but also take some of the little
there's little buildouts out right out in front of the church.
There's a build out there. Get rid of that so
the bus can move across the intersection without having to
pull out into the main drag. So that's coming to us.
So I'll check on that. When it's going to be
with us, I'm sure it's very soon, and I'll let
(06:00):
you know.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
All right, because it made a world of difference, trust me, Hey,
and just quickly, what's happening with the council building. It
sounds like that earthquake threatens get getting worse by the day.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Well, no, it's not. It's not any worse than it is.
What we've got. We've got that. We've got the main building,
which is one hundred percent. We've got the add on,
which is actually eighty percent, but the joint between the
two has been deemed at forty percent, so that makes
the add on forty percent.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Right.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
So it was all designed and it was all built
and done properly. This was before the earthquake, but in
just a general sort of by night tahu or and
so the building going around just checking how everything's behaving,
it was noted that maybe that joint, even though it
was designed and built properly, needs to be looked at.
So it has been looked bad. And the best thing
(06:49):
we did that once Mary and I found out, has
moved everyone out of that out of that area, and
a lot of the start is very thankful for that,
because we talk about forty percent. Here, we are running
around as a council telling everyone else in the city
they've got to build to sixty seven or higher or
whatever they want, and we're forty. Well, we're with bloody
hypocript so we've got so what are you going to do? No, no, no,
(07:11):
it's it's at the moment. It's we're getting the planned drawn.
It'll go to a designer, get the link done. If
we could be out of that part of the building
for the next six months, that's what could happen.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
All right, Okay, I know we're going to say it.
What's your pick for the rugby on Saturday night?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Yeah? Oh, Canary of course, but it's not going to
be well, it wasn't easy last week, as you know,
Canary of course, but it.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Will be difficult all right. And it's not going to
be roudy either with no cow bells.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
So I believe. I'm sure some people are trying to
make someone but I didn't say that. Of course.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Is that what you is that what you would do
if you're a Chiefs fan?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
I can possibly say, John, all right.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
We're talking a fortnight. Thanks Bill. Enjoy the long weekend.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
For more from Caterbory Mornings with John McDonald, listen live
to news Talks It'd be christ Church from nine am weekdays.
Follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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