Showing posts with label Development planning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Development planning. Show all posts
Saturday, February 10, 2024
Eric Crampton: The incapacity of development capacity
Labels: Development planning, Eric CramptonThe way New Zealand’s councils decide whether they have zoned sufficient land for development makes it hard to zone sufficient land for development.
The problem is not any specific analysis. The problem is the method itself. Or, at least, the absence of ongoing sanity checks on the figures.
The National Policy Statement on Urban Development requires larger councils to provide “at least sufficient development capacity to meet expected demand for housing and for business land over the short term, medium term, and long term.”
It sounds excellent in principle. But consider how that requirement is met.
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