On 14/08/2014 6:41 a.m., David Lloyd wrote:
> Good morning Comrade
>
> What has this got to do with former Mayor Mooreâs hiring of Marryatt?
David we sometimes like to try to fit a person into a category. It can
make it more possible to reaffirm a perception of attack on them: a
common trick really.
Sometimes 90% of an attackers followers are led to feel credible is
really an attack on a straw man.
I am annoying to perpetrators of that process because I select bits from
a number of dishes, I'm not the plain porridge or rice, or even the
plain grain type.
I posted Pavletich's link mentioning Gary. If Gary was wrong about
Marryatt, your book may set it up that he is wrong about everything. My
book doesn't. I suggest listen to him, deal with his arguments.
Strangely you seem to be agreeing with him that this big public money
thing shouldn't be happening. Or is it that you like the public-private
partnership aspect subscribing money and Treaty money to speculators?
>
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> On 13/08/2014, at 11:16 pm, Brian Sandle <<email obscured>> wrote:
>
> Comrade, I know youâd like to see the state and councils own and
> control everything but I think you are wrong.
The everything - nothing straw man.
> The free market does regenerate city centres because the majority of
> property is privately owned. Government buildings, both state and
> local, courts, IRD, Winz, council headquarters, libraries etc, make up
> only a small percentage of the cities buildings. If the government and
> local authorities built and controlled every building in the city who
> would pay for it?
Everything - nothing again.
May I bring in Tim's point about parking. Before the quakes private
enterprise was shifting to the malls where there was lots of parking for
one thing. Council was worried about the move out of the central city by
private enterprise.
Now with many open spaces there may be more parking room. It may not
just the supermarkets on Moorhouse that have big parking spaces. Maybe
private stuff may look at returning. Do you have confidence?
I worry about the New Brighton business district plan. There is reduced
parking compared to the present around a densified business area near
the Pier. Is a motive to increase residential accommodation near the
pubs here?
> Taxes and rates would need to soar. Christchurch city rates are
> already sky high and many on fixed incomes are finding it difficult to
> pay. Christchurch citizens cannot afford to pay heftier rates than
> they are now.
I think Christchurch rates are moderate in comparison to other urban
districts.
Christchurch under Vicky, or Gary, I am not sure which, kept Orion, and
did not give residents a payout. So now the income from Orion helps
against rising rates. Same with port and airport.
I wonder what will happen if private interests get a big voice on the
airport board. Will visitors from Auckland still have to pay about 10%
of their fare on the bus from the airport to the city? What interest
would private investors looking for airport business have in sending
travellers to the city to do their business while waiting?
Brian
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