The Auckland Council has wisely dumped the proposal to increase housing density in the suburbs. Facing revolt, enough councillors "caved in" to the proposal.
The Council bungled this one. There was no consultation on the Council's "out of scope" changes to the Unitary Plan's intensification rules.
Totally undemocratic - but it gets worse. Without the support of the unelected Maori statutory board member on the committee that voted the change in, the proposal would not have even passed in the first place.
Unelected Maori statutory board members should not be voting on council business, let alone dictating critical issues. The very notion is hare-brained stupidity.