Post by Brent George on Mar 12, 2024 0:29:32 GMT
‘Immoral, awful’: Seaside Village Upset by Social Housing Plan
Stuff - Bay of Plenty: 12-Mar-2024
Plans to build 4905 three-storey townhouses and apartments, including social housing, in Ōmokoroa have sent ripples through the sleepy coastal settlement.
The housing intensification plan in suburbs across Aotearoa was introduced in 2021 to increase housing supply, but homeowners had expressed concerns about losing their view, sun and suburb’s character.
Ōmokoroa resident, Bruce McCabe, who chairs the village’s rates and residents association, said many people were worried about losing the Bay of Plenty spot’s character and feel they had not been consulted.
[Again, scant mention of the strain or additional loading onto existing infrastructure...]
[And again, a healthy dose on NIMBY'ism - but in the case of a resident who has settled in Omokoroa for its quiet village feel, and closeness to the retirement capital of NZ (Tauranga), there could be a point with the shear size of the intensification....]
Stuff - Bay of Plenty: 12-Mar-2024
Plans to build 4905 three-storey townhouses and apartments, including social housing, in Ōmokoroa have sent ripples through the sleepy coastal settlement.
The housing intensification plan in suburbs across Aotearoa was introduced in 2021 to increase housing supply, but homeowners had expressed concerns about losing their view, sun and suburb’s character.
Ōmokoroa resident, Bruce McCabe, who chairs the village’s rates and residents association, said many people were worried about losing the Bay of Plenty spot’s character and feel they had not been consulted.
[Again, scant mention of the strain or additional loading onto existing infrastructure...]
[And again, a healthy dose on NIMBY'ism - but in the case of a resident who has settled in Omokoroa for its quiet village feel, and closeness to the retirement capital of NZ (Tauranga), there could be a point with the shear size of the intensification....]