More Auckland Billboards
Fran O’Sullivan writes in the HoS regarding the billboards gone up over Auckland. I think I was first to cover these on Thursday, and since then many more have been e-mailed to me. Here’s another:
Fran points out the shoddy stats being used by the Council to justify their proposed billboard ban, and that the vast majoirty of complaints have been about real estate signs and sandwich boards – not billboards.
Also noted is how the hearings panel on the proposed ban is made up exclusively of Councillors who voted for the ban. Such independence!
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Tags: Local Body Politics
February 18th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
We have the same sort of problem here in Wellington, a greedy council.The tossier are forever raising the rental for cafe tables outside.The greedy halfwits, love the tourist outside cafe scene, but,theres money to be made ,taxing cafe owners to death.We really must be stupid as a country to place so many halfwit tossiers into political positions(both left and right) ,i disppear,we are stagnating.
February 18th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
Typical lefties. They feel the game to be slipping away from them so they find all sorts of ways to kill of debate. The think by making people silent they can stop the changes. I predict the Auckland city council will be wiped out completely this year in an unprecedented sweep.
February 19th, 2007 at 8:45 am
This does not sit well. For many smaller businesses the sandwich boards are one of the few ways they can get street frontage and draw foot traffic to them. Our hair salon for example is not clearly visible from the road and despite the Number 1 shoes next door is almost invisible. Without leaflet drops and the various on-road advertising we do we’d never see customers.
And they want to take that away? GG council. Way to screw the small business.
February 19th, 2007 at 9:05 am
In terms of bill boards and signage in Auckland… I don’t give a hoot. And neither should the council.
It took me over an hour to get to work today when it should take five minutes. That is what the council should be spending all it’s time on till it’s fixed.
If I have to spend half my life in traffic give me a few billboards to read please!
February 19th, 2007 at 9:26 am
“If I have to spend half my life in traffic give me a few billboards to read please!”
Ahhh yes, summed up beautifully redletter.
February 19th, 2007 at 9:32 am
“I predict the Auckland City Council will be wiped out completely”. Oh yes please make it so. I cant remember the last time we did NOT have a Rates rise.This lot are a bunch of self serving dickheads who just cant move past “cost plus” economics.
The question is: Who will stand against them?
Not Banks I hope.
February 19th, 2007 at 9:58 am
Everyone should send in a submission on the issue.
Download a form today at:
http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/council/documents/bylaw/pdf/submission.pdf
February 19th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
I listened to Banks at a public meeting the other day and to be frank I think at 60, Banks may be showing his age a bit despite the dyed hair. I think he has lost his edge and is not moving with the times. He was speaking to the bluest of blue audience, they asked for questions there were none, there was not that warmth you get, no standing ovation, just polite clapping and a few sniggers at his reheated jokes. If Banks cannot move that audience then he is finished politically. I hope he wins if he stands but I hope the right can get someone else.
February 19th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
Surely if all businesses have to obey the same rules about signs it’ll be a level playing field and shouldnt really worry anyone?
I thought they were still going to allow sandwich boards – just one per shop though.
February 19th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
Banks has too much baggage. He will get smeared and called all sorts of names which will distract people from the real issue.Which is Hucker and co are taking us all for a very expensive ride courtesy of their socialist principles and methods.
February 19th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
anyone have the by-law name and number for my submissiom?
February 19th, 2007 at 2:34 pm
What a sensational hoarding!
If Banks stands again, he’s got my vote. Whatever his flaws in being an aggressive loudmouth, he kept the rates down and got on with the basics in Auckland. We need more of that (without so much of his off-the-cuff statements).
As for this tosh from Tim that Banks is showing his age, he looked pretty damn good in the Herald the other day – far healthier looking than most of the commenters here on this blog. (Note to self, lay off the Yum Char and Pinot Gris a bit)
February 19th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
Zutroy,
The mayor has no power. Look at poor old poodle Hubbard. Mother Hucker and his whole council are the ones who have to go. They just hide behind the mayoralty sideshow, get re-elected and then continue to do a very good job at wasting our money.
No, this time we dont need the Auckland public side tracked by a mayoralty contest when its the councillor vote which is crucial.
February 19th, 2007 at 8:01 pm
Shit I feel sorry for you poor buggers in Auckland, may you take back your city.
February 19th, 2007 at 8:14 pm
Hubbard i believe ran as an independent so has ended up with very few teeth. With the present system for local body elections, the Mayor needs to have the backing of a political group.
February 19th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
John,
The Mayors in Auckland have pretty much all been independent, with an exception or two in the 1950s and 1970s.
What Hubbard did was run for Mayor without a clear idea of what he would do when he got there. He thought he’d be the Chief Executive, click his fingers, and boom – a tunnel under the city would be built. Instead, he found himself one of twenty, then cruelly relegated to ribbon cutting and photo ops instead of policy making.
However, John Dalley raises an excellent point once raised by Brian Rudman of the Herald, and others – that the Mayor ought to be elected by the council itself rather than be an independently elected office. That way, the Mayor does reflect the prevailing council opinion.
Conversely, the Mayor could be chosen similar to large cities in the USA, where the Mayor brings in his own handpicked team of appointees to run the top levels of the city, with the council acting as a legislative backstop against excess.
February 20th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
dick head /dick hubbard, rolls of the tongue, SHIT you dumb dorklanders voted for this dick, the darwin theory keeps rolling on,500,000 dick heads. (ps I LOVE WELLINGTON )
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