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Speaker 1: Now, as predicted, not everyone loves that the government is

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Speaker 1: forcing Auckland Council to allow those fifteen story apartment buildings

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Speaker 1: near key train stations in the city. Kendall Smith is

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Speaker 1: the chair of the albert Eden Local Board and with

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Speaker 1: us hallo, Kendall, Hi, how are you well? Thank you?

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Speaker 1: Did it take you by surprise?

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Speaker 2: I have to say it was a bit shocking and

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Speaker 2: a bit confronting just the level of intensication. I mean,

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Speaker 2: we all think that intensification is important, especially around these

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Speaker 2: transport hubs, and especially around the huge investment they've made

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Speaker 2: into the city rail link. However, I just think the

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Speaker 2: intensity it feels a bit blunt and it feels a

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Speaker 2: bit too quick.

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Speaker 1: What's the better way do you think of doing it?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Look, I think they should really be going through

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Speaker 2: the normal planning process so that people a can get

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Speaker 2: a chance to understand what has actually been proposed and

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Speaker 2: it's going to happen in the area, that they get

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Speaker 2: a chance to be heard. I think under this process

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Speaker 2: I really get the impression. And I don't know for

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Speaker 2: a fact, but I think it's going to be very

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Speaker 2: hard for the community to have a meaningful impact in.

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Speaker 1: Being who but Kendall isn't the point of not going

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Speaker 1: through the usual planning process that the usual planning process

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Speaker 1: is a problem and it doesn't allow anything really to happen.

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Speaker 2: Oh look, look, I agree that there is sometimes red

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Speaker 2: tape for red tape's sake, But if you don't allow, like,

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Speaker 2: forcing something onto a community will never get you great

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Speaker 2: community outcome. It won't actually allow you to plan. It's

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Speaker 2: going to be so imposing in an area that has

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Speaker 2: this amazing heritage, and all of a sudden it's going

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Speaker 2: to have fifteen stories high.

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Speaker 1: Are you guys going to fight at Kendall because it

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Speaker 1: feels to me like this is very fightable.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, look, I only speak on behalf of my

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Speaker 2: I hadn't spoken to the whole of the local board

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Speaker 2: about this, and there will be various views on the

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Speaker 2: local board. There will be some of my members there

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Speaker 2: absolutely love it. They love a good bit of public

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Speaker 2: transport half a bit of which we all do. But

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Speaker 2: there will be some people who will be I live

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Speaker 2: in a heritage area, a special character area, and that

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Speaker 2: I really value, and the most of the people who

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Speaker 2: live probably in Mount Eden and Epsom and Mount Albert

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Speaker 2: and Kingsland have chosen those areas because it's the special

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Speaker 2: character and the heritage that they love about it. And

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Speaker 2: so to be told overnight that you might have a

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Speaker 2: fifteen story block beside you is very unpalatable because you

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Speaker 2: sere's a financial element of it, which these are people's homes,

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Speaker 2: which is usually people's biggest investments, but it's their community

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Speaker 2: in their home that's going to change like drastically. It's unprecedented.

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Speaker 1: We will have to live with there. I really appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: I really appreciate your time. Thank you very much for

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Speaker 1: talking austro As Kendall Smith, chair of the Albert Eden

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