Saw a comment on my local councils post of someone worried that the Tauranga CBD would look like Shanghai in a fews years "at the rate they're going".

Some of the most popular, picturesque tourist spots and residential locales in the world make NZs "high density" plans look laughably wasteful in comparison, and people are still tearing their hair out about it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

This is such a long fucking time coming. The only land left in Nelson to build on is steep hills, or productive land out past Richmond (and actually Tasman District Council at that point anyway). This has been needed for ages.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Stack em deep and sell em expensive

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Trying to turn Nelson into the Gold Coast!? Just hope they build well back from the coastline...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yep. It's down to those details. There's no question about whether it should happen or not, just how exactly will it happen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The idea is that the city will build upwards, rather than outwards

Yeah an absolute bolt from the blue, how can New Zealand ever prepare for the sudden and unprecedented invasion of multistory buildings.

Saw a comment on my local councils post of someone worried that the Tauranga CBD would look like Shanghai in a fews years "at the rate they're going".

Some of the most popular, picturesque tourist spots and residential locales in the world make NZs "high density" plans look laughably wastaful in comparison, and people are still tearing their hair out about it.