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How are we doing? Is there anything you would like to tell us?
OK, I'm a bit surprised, but you are doing better than I expected.
What other ideas should we be thinking about to include in future plans for our city?
Get over the car thing. ALL of the great cities and towns of the world make use of pedestrianised CBDs.
Coal: ALL COAL BURNING NEEDS TO STOP. Its killing all of us.
Infinite Growth: Get over it - it is physically impossible. The former mayor had a saying - "Quality, not quantity." Dunedin should be about making the lives of ALL of its residents better, not just property developers.
Speaking of, property developers needs to pay their fair share.
Likewise, the university should be paying rates on its millions of property revenues! That would solve a huge amount of problems.
The stadium should be paying its way as well. DCHL needs to stop insisting that all of its companies make a profit. If the stadium, for example, can't pay its way it should be sold. The city should be focussed on SERVICE not profit.
High density housing is great for urban areas (and there are a lot of buildings in need of occupation) but unnecessary and unpleasant in the outlying areas. Why are you trying to destroy one of the things that makes Dunedin so good?
So it goes with tourism. Some is good. But dumping 5000 people a day into the city, with its attendant increase in traffic, noise and pollution, is unsustainable and just plain wrong. End the cruise ships. It makes it so the people that actually live and work here and contribute to the city can't afford anything anymore because the prices have been inflated by tourism and reckless property development.
All this tourism is destroying the natural beauty of the place. This isn't Queenstown or Auckland or Miami Beach. And we don't want it to be!
Bottom line: people are struggling here with the cost of things. This obviously is not entirely the council's doing or within its control. But the council can help by having sound financial and physical planning that supports people, not just makes a few people even more wealthy.