Kāinga Ora Wants No 'Lowest-Density Housing' in Auckland
December 22, 2022
If the country’s biggest landlord and property developer has its way, the Auckland of the future will be dominated by multi-storey and high-rise blocks, putting even more squeeze on the traditional Kiwi home with its own backyard.
Kāinga Ora, the Government’s giant state housing corporation, is standing against what it calls the “blanket approach” to low density zoning, which allows one house for each section with heights not exceeding two storeys. It says it’s time to make room for greater intensification.
The agency sees no place for the single house precinct created under the original Auckland Unitary Plan (revised this year to “low density residential zone”). Instead, it wants just two of the existing urban residential zones.
Commentary
http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/unitaryplan/NPSUDsubs/PC78_873_KaingaOra_01of19.pdf