Hearing commissioners Greg Hill and Conway Stewart went along with this. They noted that the Auckland Regional Transport Authority had advised Auckland City that "it intends to lodge a notice of requirement (NOR) for a CBD rail tunnel which, according to ARTA, will affect this site", but that "no NOR had been lodged at the time of determining this application". The commissioners said that "accordingly, while acknowledging that any proposed CBD rail tunnel is a significant strategic issue for the city/region, it has had no influence in the commissioners' determination of this application". If ever one needed further evidence for governance reform of Auckland, this nonsensical decision to turn a judicial blind eye to the obvious impact this building will have on the future traffic artery is it.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/466/story.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10507960
Any better evidence needed of the ridiculous waste of our public monies on this bunch of retards?
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