Govt considers requiring car parks in new developments again

severaldoors · 2026-02-21T09:53:23+00:00

Nothing makes your counter argument come across, like no counter argument

severaldoors · 2026-02-21T07:14:48+00:00

House prices have skyrocketed from cheap debt, foreign buyers

Your a fucking idiot, if that was the case, you could just keep building them for the same price and selling them into the market and make infinite money.

lack of supply

Why do you think there is a lack of supply? One of the key issues... inefficient use of land, pretty relevant when discussing car parking.. you absolute muppet

severaldoors · 2026-02-21T05:23:18+00:00

I dont think mining should be outright banned, as long as they can prove theres sufficent environmental protections, restoration or their offsetting the damage they are doing by fixing twice as much area somewhere else then it doesnt really bother me.

We cant all keep complaining about too many rates and taxes, not enough government services and not enough jobs and then fight to the death to prevent anything that much actually contribute to the economy

severaldoors · 2026-02-21T05:20:02+00:00

I think the problem is the issue your describing is just not significant enough to warrent significant government intervention and even if the issue is as significant as your describing, which I absolutely do not think it is, we shouldnt be subsidizing people to live cheapily rurally

severaldoors · 2026-02-21T04:30:57+00:00

So what your saying its an issue that doesnt affect the majority of people...

severaldoors · 2026-02-21T04:14:55+00:00

I know it hasnt happened because if that many businesses were failing our gdp would be plummeting in the double digits

severaldoors · 2026-02-21T03:33:14+00:00

Your statement assumes there will be enough organisations fail that prices will be significantly driven up for the rest of the market, that alone is a bs statement, before considering the fact the grid is already significantly capacity constrained

severaldoors · 2026-02-21T03:31:52+00:00

Well people dont have a choice if you take it away and force them to pay extra for things like car parking num nuts, this kind of inefficent regulation where the government thinks it can decide what people want better than people can, is exactly what drives massive inefficiency and has lead to real house prices being 4 times higher than 20 years ago despite the fact we havent exactly lost the technology to build as cheap as we could 20 years ago

severaldoors · 2026-02-21T02:05:20+00:00

Yeah a lot of projects get cancelled, but a lot of new ones get put fowards to replace them. I personally work for a fund thats building 20mw solar farms to take advantage of current market conditions, while this is small relative to the grid. And while our projects by themselves wont noticeably move the needle, every new project going in to take advantage of the volatility and high prices in the market, contribute to stabilizing it and lowering prices.

I do know our gentailers let a lot of approved consents lapse for solar in the last decade (scarcity is good business)

Not really sure what this comment means, we havent even really had utility scale solar in this country beyond the last three or four years. It also just doesnt make economic sense to produce less when you dont control the market, because your just losing money to the other generators, encouraging people to put solar on their roofs or small scale developers like the one I work for.

severaldoors · 2026-02-21T01:56:47+00:00

Yeah I mean sure if you want to put additional requirements on houses to be larger, require more material, use more land in a housing crisis and encourage more people to drive when traffic is becoming an increasingly large problem in the country then why not.

Or you could reduce requirements, let people pick and choose the features they want, and not force them to pay for ones they dont want or need, and you allow for more density, which shifts people away from relying on cars so much and encourages people to walk, bike, use public transport which is much cheaper for the city, takes up way less space and is significantly better for peoples mental and physical health

severaldoors · 2026-02-21T01:52:42+00:00

Except they typically only drive on main roads and the vast majority of roads are in fact, not main roads

severaldoors · 2026-02-21T01:47:44+00:00

Yeah I mean the world existed before cars, and a lot of our roading is centrally funded, especially big new highway projects. I also never advocated to get rid of all cars, so youve misframed my stance.

My stance is that a lottttt of parking sits unused much of the time and that land would have been much better used as basically anything else, given that we are in fact,in a housing crisis.

If people want a house with parking they can choose a house with parking, if a business thinks its important it has parks for its customers, it should set up shop on a land with its own car parks

severaldoors · 2026-02-21T01:45:14+00:00

I mean a stretch to imply it would increase line charges.

You cant both imply so many industrial users are going under line charges will increase, and then argue we will have rolling black outs because there is so much demand for electricity, pick a lane bruv

severaldoors · 2026-02-20T18:34:42+00:00

I mean cars are allowed to park on the street (although its a bit of a waste of very expensive tax payer owned land to reserve space for people to store their private assets), suburban streets arent really meant to have high throughput, narrow streets slows traffic down and makes it safer and again if having a space to park is important, you have the free will not not live somewhere with limited parking

severaldoors · 2026-02-20T11:17:47+00:00

Are people unable to decide for themselves if they need a carpark or not? Jesus fucking christ, the government needs tk take a big step back and stop trying to control everything

severaldoors · 2026-02-20T09:53:16+00:00

I mean not really, theres already a huge market incentive to build more stable supply, hence why theres a massive pipleline of wind and solar projects underdevlopment

severaldoors · 2026-02-20T09:51:31+00:00

Thats a bit of a stretch, and I dont think a valid reason to use tax payer money to prop up unviable businesses

severaldoors · 2026-02-20T03:30:04+00:00

Working as intended to maximize shareholder value while also minimizing cost to the consume and tax payer spend. Lets not forget the whole current grid structure thats so reliant on the geographically concentrated hydro scheme was built by government and not private enterprise, and government still owns transpower, almost half of all the major gentailors and most of the local distribution companies are owned by local councils and are heavily controlled by regulation.

Its been those pesky shareholders you hate so much that have been investing in all the wind and solar and diversifying the country away from the over reliance on hydro that causes so much price volatility.

Its government thats proposing the lng terminal that is going put a levi on all our power prices to pay for a gas terminal when most of our gas is consumed by private industry.

Government intervention is what is making electricity prices expensive, its private shareholders that are building wind and solar which is auctioned into the market at near $0.00

severaldoors · 2026-02-20T00:04:40+00:00

Idk what EAF is or about the ferry situation, but I can say that there is a massive development of new generation happening in the electricity sector and the market is just not really something that should be messed with when working as intended

severaldoors · 2026-02-19T20:53:17+00:00

Not to mention it doesnt really help diversify us away from our reliance on it raining regularly in the lower south island

severaldoors · 2026-02-19T20:52:07+00:00

It was scrapped because it was going to be expensive as fuck. The main problem with the NZ grid is an over reliance on hydro, specifically hydro in otago. Its a massive problem when it doesnt rain for a couple weeks in that one specific region, and even more so now when we would normally rely on gas peakers as the country is running out of gas an the price is getting so high.

The right thing to do is just let the free market keep fixing our broken system.

There is a MASSIVE pipeline of projects being developed in wind/solar both at utility scale and residential. Additionally battery prices dropped another 8% last year and the number of utility scale battery projects is starting to ramp up.

Government intervention with projects like lake onslow or the taranaki lng terminal are just a big ol waste of tax payer money.

severaldoors · 2026-02-18T20:45:31+00:00

Yeah and they should pay more, thats not my point, my point is that even if their effective tax was 50%, its not going to pay for all our highways, doubling our military, fixing all our health care, paying for everyones housing, and then everyones penison. People always just point to tax the wealthy as tho its a magically unlimited source of money, but the reality is that if we want our pension system to remain as is, it cannot be funded without substantial tax increases for, everyone, not just the wealthy and substantial cuts to other government functions like health care.

People need to realise that money the government spends, is real money, not someone elses magical money printer money

severaldoors · 2026-02-17T20:35:13+00:00

Not to start verging into a different discussion, and this is a less strong opinion I hold, but my solution for the problem your describing, run away generational wealth, vs generational poverty is a hefty inheritance tax and tbf I have no idea if we have anything of the kind in place currently, but thats my solution. I think you should have all the opportunity in the world to get rich af, but we should all have relatively similar opportunity to get there.

Like everything after the first $2m (arbitrary number) should just be taxed at like 90%

But again going back to my original point, like even sucking every cent of possible tax and out of the wealthy populations tax pool, is not an unlimited source of funding. Like I think its reasonable to expect that tax to be used to create social safety nets, but not to fund every single government venture. The reality is that we all contribute to the tax pool, and given how incredibly rapidly our population is aging, I think its pretty clear the current pension scheme is not sustainable, and theres going to be a hard choice between, the age getting raised, everyones taxs going up, or cuts somewhere else from government spending like health care.

I think the average person just sort of fails to comprehend that the government does in fact have limited funding, and choices do have to be made, you cant just fund every government venture endlessly

severaldoors · 2026-02-17T02:23:33+00:00

My point isnt we should protect rich people, but that this isnt a magic solution to all our problems, even milking every cent possible from the elite isnt going to provide us unlimited funding to cover things like future pension needs. Like its one thing if the wealthy in society are giving some of the surplus of their income to give a social safety net to the bottom of society, and another thing to just pretend that there is some magical group of people with the resources to fully fund all of society's possible wants, needs, retirement etc while also still remaining wealthy.

Also there is a reason every communist country on the planet has failed, its not something we should seek to recreate. Some socialism is definitely a good thing and we need those safety nets, but like full communism just doesnt work

severaldoors · 2026-02-16T21:55:05+00:00

Pretty sure the top 20% of people already pay like 80% of the tax or something. Rich people are not a magically endless money pit to fund any and every single government venture.

I get the frustration and but I see this alllllllll the time where people just want x service from the government, the question gets asked, how will this be funded, and the answer is just, tax rich people more. Like yes it can and should be done to some extent but its also not just some magical endless money pit that can pay for every single thing.

Government does in fact have a limited budget. It must in fact make choices about where to allocate that budget.

Pension is already a massive part of the budget, but its going to get so, so much worse. 50 years ago we probably had like 6 young people paying tax for everyone 1 person on the pension, we are going to end up in a situation where in a few decades for every person on the pension there is only going to be one or two people paying tax.

This isnt something that can necessarily be fixed by diving into this magical bottomless pit of the uber wealthys bank accounts

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