Comment on Labour's plan to abolish Auckland's RUB

May 18, 2016

From Bernard Hickey at interest.co.nz:

Labour's Housing and Auckland Issues spokesman Phil Twyford has called on the Government to use its upcoming National Policy Statement on housing and urban land use to abolish Auckland's Rural Urban Growth Boundary (RUB) and to free up density rules to accelerate Auckland's ability to grow housing supply both out and up....

"I'm partial to removing whatever they want to call it this week -- the Metropolitan Urban Limit or the Rural Urban Boundary," Grimes told Interest.

"There are two urban growth boundaries in Auckland. One is a horizontal one and one is a vertical one, and it's important to get rid of both of them," he said. More...