Parking changes – protest and interim response

Today (Monday), Dunedin City Council agreed a set of resolutions to bring about relatively immediate changes to central city parking for assistance to retailers and local business in the run up to Christmas, in particular. The council working party has been constituted to examine the wider issues which lie with the parking strategy. Heaven knows what we will end up with if the council thinks buses (as we know them…) are a substitute for the convenience of independent car travel. Let’s leave that one for another day.

### ODT Online Mon, 28 Sep 2009
Parking protests by bagful
By David Loughrey

The clamour for immediate parking changes in Dunedin has gathered impetus, as further protest appeared yesterday on city streets.
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Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s ODT carry more on parking, with D Scene featuring those responsible for the ‘bag protest’ last Sunday.

Post by Elizabeth Kerr

Watering the thought of sustainability

When is a super dam a good idea, tell us the ways…

1. Are we really talking climate change, like we know what it means?

2. Are we talking revolutionary change in agricultural production necessitated by climate change?

3. Why are we talking loss of native snow tussock country?

4. Why should we seek the imperative to modify the natural landscape in ways that might support the adoption of further non organic, intensive farming practices?

So many questions. So many ecological habitats and microsystems destroyed. How much water do we actually need for the future? They say water is the new gold. It might be, but what is ‘future planning’ and who should be doing it?

So many questions for those who would promote a super dam to the detriment of all else, if they don’t have the whole picture.

So many questions for those who see a business in selling water.

That’s ok you lot…we don’t have the whole picture yet, either. We’ll start to bring that picture to you, Mr Mackie, Cr Wilson and Cr Noone.

DCC first stuck this little glory piece into Thursday’s The Star, community newspaper – like we wouldn’t notice. Or perhaps we were supposed to notice more…

Here come the debates and ructions about what we should be doing to maintain water supply, the compulsion to irrigate, leach and wreck more of New Zealand’s hill country (for yachting, jetboating and float planes???) by not occupying a small ecological footprint.

The Lammerlaws are somewhere behind us where we can’t see them, let’s exploit the gap between metropolitan and academic sensitivities and those ‘in charge’ of the great outdoors. Hey. Just FLOOD IT, folks. What was that about the RMA amendments.

How much water do we need to flush environmental, financial and cultural sustainability down the drain.

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### ODT Online Fri, 25 Sep 2009
‘Super dam’ gains support
By Bruce Munro

New Zealand’s biggest dam could be built in the Lammerlaw Range, northwest of Dunedin. Dunedin City Council water and waste services manager John Mackie will be “strongly recommending” the city build a “super dam” when the draft 50-year Three Waters Strategy is released for public consultation in November.
Read more

Post by Elizabeth Kerr

Stadium area buildings – Unipol

### ODT Online Sat, 26 Sep 2009
Unipol stake under review
By Allison Rudd

The Otago Polytechnic Students Association (OPSA) may reduce its shareholding in the Unipol gymnasium, a move which would also reduce the amount it is expected to pay towards building a new student facility on the Forsyth Barr stadium site.
Read more

Post by Elizabeth Kerr

Parking changes – we hope!

### ODT Online Sat, 26 Sep 2009
Parking U-turns proposed
By David Loughrey

Intense pressure to resolve the city’s parking issues seems set come to a head on Monday, as some Dunedin city councillors plan to push for urgent changes to the new regime. If accepted, some changes would amount to a U-turn.
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The recommendations:

1. Parking in George St be changed to a maximum of 30 minutes.

2. Parking on side streets in “the core” between George, Great King and Filleul Sts be returned to the original time limits.

3. Two P10 spaces be allocated on each side of the blocks in George St, and on the immediate side streets as above.

4. The three P5s outside Southern Community Laboratories and the Urgent Pharmacy in Hanover Street be returned to three P10s.

5. Goods service vehicle only loading zones be reinstated as close as practicable to the original sites.

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### ODT Online Sat, 26 Sep 2009
Time to stop blaming and fix parking, AA says
By David Loughrey

The recent changes to parking in Dunedin were done with good intent, but the unpredictable changes to drivers’ behaviour meant it was time to drop the name-calling and fix the problem, Automobile Association Otago District Council vice-chairman Jack Crawford said yesterday.
Read more

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When DCC General Manager Tony Avery works in understatement… the parking regime had resulted in commuters parking further away from the central city, and that some areas with pay-and-display machines were “not getting a lot of use”.

### ODT Online Sat, 26 Sep 2009
Pressures on parking spark confrontation
By Chris Morris

A motorist involved in an angry confrontation with another motorist says the Dunedin City Council’s new parking regime is partly to blame.
Read more

Post by Elizabeth Kerr

Stadium – home games + RWC progress

### ODT Online Sat, 26 Sep 2009
Home game requirement in stadium hire agreement
By David Loughrey
Highlanders’ “home” games outside the Otago-Southland region should be a thing of the past as the Otago Rugby Football Union is expected to ensure they are played at the Forsyth Barr Stadium once it is built.
Read more

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### ODT Online Sat, 26 Sep 2009
Rugby World Cup progress meeting
As the Southern region prepares for the Rugby World Cup, a meeting next week will allow stakeholders to check on progress. Spokesman Stuart Heal said tournament organisers had been impressed by the collaborative approach the Otago and Southland regions took to bidding for matches and team hosting.
Read more

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Posted by Elizabeth Kerr

Labour Weekend – Otago Central Vulcan & Steam Celebrations

Middlemarch 23 – 26 October 2009

All Aboard

On 7 June 1879 Vincent Pyke turned the first sod at Wingatui to commence the building of the Otago Central Railway to Cromwell. Be part of the re-enactment of this historic event.

Celebrate 130 years of history as you step aboard and make the journey inland in a classic Vulcan Railcar or Steam Locomotive Ab663. Taieri Gorge Railway is also operating services on these pieces of history between Middlemarch, Sutton and Pukerangi utilising the Vulcan railcar, Ab663, and Vintage Diesel Locomotive Dg772.

Photographers and enthusiasts will have the opportunity to purchase day/evening passes to access exclusive locations for that perfect shot.

From floral and art exhibitions, to the might of the locals towing a train, see the toil of soil with the qualifying rounds of the Mobil Silver Plough competition, and celebrate the official opening of the restored Water Tank.

For events information and bookings go to www.dunedintrainfestival.co.nz
or phone 03 4774449.

Supported by Dunedin City Council.

Survey ignores those no longer parking in CBD

GET REAL DCC

### ODT Online Thu, 24 Sep 2009
Parking survey ‘shows people happy with changes’
By Chris Morris

Council senior transportation planner Lisa Owens said most motorists spoken to appeared to be happy with the July changes, which included the introduction of $1 to $4-an-hour parking, four-hour maximum stays and 153 new pay-and-display machines.
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Embarrassing!

DCC has to explain the number of empty on-street car parks generated, the drop in use of carpark buildings, and the overall reduction in vibrancy apparent in the CBD since the parking changes. Why isn’t DCC strategising to maintain a busy urban centre in tough recessionary times.

Embarrassing!

DCC blacks out figures for Carisbrook rent

### ODT Online Wed, 23 Sep 2009
DCC silent on Carisbrook charge
By Chris Morris

The Dunedin City Council is refusing to reveal how much it is charging the Otago Rugby Football Union to use Carisbrook, despite speculation it could be receiving up to $490,000 each year.
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Posted by Elizabeth Kerr

D Scene – Stabbing DCC over Undie 500, alcohol and the ghetto

### D Scene 23-9-08
Front cover: Burning issues
The council and the liquor industry have come in for scathing criticism for contributing to the boozy and couch-burning culture of Otago University students. We investigate as the fallout continues from the latest mayhem.
See pages 4-7

Try the mirror (page 3)
By Dave Wood, acting editor
So Undie 500s trigger the mayhem at the North Dunedin student enclave. Health authorities, a university researcher, and a lecturer point the finger firmly at the council, saying its decisions – and lack of decisions – are much to blame.

Undie fallout continues (page 4)
By Michelle Sutton
Dunedin City Council and North Dunedin’s student ghetto are copping blame for the latest boozy student chaos.

Council failed to act on recommendations: Kypri (page 4)
By Michelle Sutton
Dunedin City Council is blasted for its part in booze problems leading to this month’s Castle St carnage. Senior researcher at Australia’s Newcastle University, Dr Kypros Kypri put 11 recommendations to the Dunedin City Council in 2003.

PHS points finger at city Council (page 5)
Drinking to get drunk is a social norm among Dunedin students, but they cannot be blamed solely for the problems that then arise, say local health authorities.

Student behaviour ‘moronic’: Ellis (page 5)
One of Otago University’s most infamous scarfies, TV personality and All Black Marc Ellis, calls the Castle St riots “moronic”.

Dunedin is the couch-burning capital of the world, reckons television builder John Cocks (Cocksy). MC at the building industry’s southern region young apprentice of the year awards, he observed: “When you buy a couch here, they ask, ‘Do you want petrol with that?’ ” (page 6)

Society needs to ‘look at self’ (page 6)
By Michelle Sutton
Middle-aged New Zealand needs to look at itself before blaming students for the drunken riots against police, says Kevin Mechen of the Dunedin City Council.

Chaplains ready for disgraced students (page 6)
By Wilma McCorkindale
Campus chaplains are bracing themselves for months, maybe years, of effects on disgraced students from the Undie 500 mayhem in Castle St. University of Otago ecumenical chaplain Rev Greg Hughson supported many in court after the Undie 500 two years ago.

Student ghetto to blame (page 7)
North Dunedin’s student ghetto is singled out as a major factor leading to Castle St’s carnage at the Undie 500 weekend. Otago University music lecturer Graeme Downes offer some insight in his blog about events that led to 67 arrests, about 80 percent of whom were Dunedin students.

Register to read D Scene online at http://fairfaxmedia.newspaperdirect.com/

STS to tell members to pay (page 9)
Stop The Stadium will recommend to its members to pay almost $10,000 to the Dunedin City Council. President Dave Witherow says the committee will recommend paying the costs at a special meeting for members, to be held on October 18. The special meeting will also deal with STS’s future actions.

Building a bar (page 19)
Dunedin’s youngest pub baron and former scarfie Richard McLeod tells D Scene about building a bar empire with his mate James Arnott, and the Liquor Licensing Authority decision that threatens to topple it over. Michelle Sutton reports.

Post by Elizabeth Kerr

Cowboys Stadium opens

Today (literally as I am writing this midday Monday) the newest sports stadium hosts its first game. The $1.2B USD Cowboys Stadium is the stage for the Dallas Cowboys vs The New York Giants, in which a little over 100,000 fans get their first taste of this stunning arena. Sure it’s been open for a while and hosted the likes of Paul McCartney, but this is what it was built for – football.

http://stadium.dallascowboys.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboys_Stadium

Pitched on the NBC broadcast as one of the new wonders of the world (well they are American and like to embellish a little).

Yeah that’s over the top US TV for you. But here is some beautiful eye candy since you are all stadium fans!

The screen is 600 tons and they had to make a new ruling for the stadium in case the ball hits it. And this from inside the jumbotron.

There’s a nice section within the Cowboys site on the stadium with a nice (building) collection of slide shows.

Dunedin renewables and recyclables

UPDATED

### ODT Online Mon, 21 Sep 2009
DCC man puts focus on renewables
By Sarah Harvey

Major Dunedin buildings such as the town hall, central library, Moana Pool, Regent Theatre and railway station could be heated using renewable woodchip fuel, one of many ideas put forward by Dunedin City Council energy manager Neville Auton at a workshop on Saturday.
Read more

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### ODT Online Mon, 21 Sep 2009
A fresh look at Dunedin’s recycling
By Chris Morris

Dunedin residents have until tomorrow to comment on the city’s new waste and recycling system. But, as the deadline approaches, some important new ideas are already beginning to take shape, as Chris Morris reports.
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The Dunedin City Council is consulting the public on its preferred option for a proposed new kerbside rubbish and recycling collection system.

Submissions close 22 September 2009.

Go to the DCC website to have your say online.

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### ODT Online Mon, 21 Sep 2009
Investing in recycling pays off
By Ellie Constantine

Making money from resources once destined for the landfill is at the heart of Doug Hall’s business. As owner of Hall Bros Transport Ltd, a Dunedin-based company, he is a strong believer in the efficiency of recycling and reusing construction waste.
Read more

Doug Hall is responsible for recycling demolition material from the stadium site in Aotea Street. Recently, CST chairman Malcolm Farry said that at one stage they were achieving 90% recycling. Channel 9 Video Link

Post by Elizabeth Kerr

Video – Spin It Wide RWC 2011

KiwiCato 17 June 2009
When New Zealand’s Southern Region (Otago, Queenstown & Southland) needed a tender document for the 2011 Rugby World Cup, they turned to Cato Partners to help bring their submission to life. Filmed on a small budget, but made possible by the big hearts, enthusiasm and energy of the people of Otago & Southland, the resulting video, ‘Spin It Wide’, demonstrates what makes this region so very unique, and is a demonstration of what can be achieved when a community becomes connected and energised. Photography by John Crawford. Music by Thomas Oliver. (4:55)

Post by Elizabeth Kerr

Undie 500 – police reviewing footage

### ODT Online Sat, 19 Sep 2009
More Undie arrests likely
By Debbie Porteous

Police warn they are likely to make more arrests next week after they review footage of the Undie 500 disorder in Dunedin. A team of officers has been assigned to review police video footage, still photographs and other evidence, to identify others involved.
Read more

Post by Elizabeth Kerr

Malcolm Farry: “Inconceivable we won’t be ready in time”

### ODT Online Sat, 19 Sep 2009
World Cup backup plan
By David Loughrey
The Carisbrook Stadium Trust will have a backup plan for Rugby World Cup seats when they go on sale next year, in case the Forsyth Barr Stadium is not ready.
Read more

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Seating numbers:

Forsyth Barr Stadium
South stand: 10,784
North stand: 8450
East stand: 6060
West stand: 5220
Total: 30,514*
*Includes “terraces” with room for 3688 if seats removed.

Carisbrook
Main stand: 2976
Rose stand: 3900
Railway stand: 7975
Terrace (standing): 5200
Terrace (seated): 1564
Hillside stand: 1589
Neville St stand: 3600
Temporary seats: 450
Suites: 1300
Total: 28,554

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In the past total numbers have far exceeded the figure cited here for Carisbrook. What gives?????

Post by Elizabeth Kerr

Stop The Stadium opinion piece

Future directions?
By Dave Witherow, STS President

The “new direction” of STS – if our membership agrees – will simply be to push for the election of competent, responsible people to the City and Regional Councils. Many others, no doubt, will seek the same goals, and achieving them should not be very difficult – eighty percent of Dunedin people, after all, finally repudiated the stadium, and if that 80% translates into votes it is curtains for the current crew.
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Read the full opinion piece published in D Scene this week, or download the PDF from the STS website.

UPDATE 31.8.12
Download: future_directions (PDF, 26 KB)

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Dunedin City Council and sustainability

### ODT Online Fri, 18 Sep 2009
Councillor attacks parts of report
By David Loughrey

Dunedin city councillor Michael Guest has attacked parts of a report on sustainability he said were “from the loony left”, and urged the council not to treat the idea as a religion.
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– Councillor Michael Guest chairs the Dunedin City Council’s Planning and Environment Committee, strangely.

Report – FSC – 14/09/2009 (PDF, 152.7 kb, new window)
Sustainability Framework Update

###ODT Online Mon, 21/09/2009 – 4:54pm.
Comment by JimmyJones on Sustainability or common sense?

DCC Councilors have been pressured in recent times, by the DCC staff, to impose Sustainability on the city. Few Councilors have had the courage to stand up to these people – Cr Guest is one that deserves some credit for opposing aspects of the report.
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On the sustainability question…

A birdie tells me councillors are looking at the potential of creating farm parks on Otago Peninsula.

This to stimulate economic development and lure private investment – after all, what do you do for the local construction industry and the investment community once the stadium is built.

Answer, as councillors, you try to sink the good people of Dunedin City into mass unsustainability practices.

If rural subdivision in Dunedin City gains more traction councillors would be seen as doing their damnedest to hike the infrastructure services bill to ratepayers, by permitting unmitigated sprawl and unsustainable land management practices…

More power to the few, is where it leads.

And hey. Local ratepayers will welcome an influx of rich folk to our rural climes – be they absentee property owners that want for no more than to run a horse for their darling children in a week of the school holidays – just like in Queenstown Lakes District?

The circus there of rural subdivision and housing sprawl, promoted by prominent Dunedin-based ‘entrepreneurs’ among others, hasn’t been a holistic or credible exercise in sustainability. It’s got them a functioning international airport though. So much for the aviation fuel industry.

A farm park is suburbanisation.

Farm parks are another enticement to life stylers that want everything pretty, tarsealed (oops, not so pretty) and fetching in terms of house aesthetics for guests (or renters at $1000+ per week), with a few hazelnut trees thrown in. The show ponies… the credit card set that blow hot and cold.

Let’s decorate Otago Peninsula with more of them. Why not.

It’s not like it is a rarity in New Zealand to have an outstanding set of existing coastal communities, to be found just a little bit further away than the Waverley sprawl. Is it?

Ransack the bays and the peninsula hills. Why not.

That’s productive isn’t it – we want to look and act like most of the world’s real estate greed incarnate. As soon as we can. We are the real sheep. Or diary cows, for want of a phrase.

Dare I say the sprawl at Mosgiel over the years has taught no lessons. There are, of course, the councillors that own property there in subdivisions, or who caused the subdivisions. We could name them after wider study of the Rates Book, which has gotten to be very interesting.

It all connects to the review of the District Plan in relation to rural land use.

A liberal entry at the council website says:
Monitoring Rural Land Use August 2004 (PDF, 460.6 kb, new window)
Dunedin City is unique amongst larger New Zealand cities in that it contains vast tracts of rural land. The District Plan seeks to maintain the productivity of rural land, to discourage rural land fragmentation, to maintain the character of rural areas and to provide for rural residential development in a sustainable manner.

It’s an observation shared that the planning staff at council – or one in particular – are of the view that market forces should dictate rural land use, leading to greater levels of subdivision of rural land.

This does not assist regional export and production. This does not restore an environment that has been highly modified in the past through exploitative farming practice and land clearing.

Fêting the creation of farm parks and rural subdivision as a whole perpetuates the ridiculous, mind numbing New Zealand preoccupation with pumping the housing market to the exclusion of making (organic) investment in productive industry and export.

Roll on, the consequences of the capital gains, the manipulative credit lines and the foreclosures… and further degradation of the environment over responsible farseeing stewardship.

Is this what the present councillors are pushing us to explore further? Is this what they think the community wants – no sustainable future?

In a word, shocking.

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References:

Zone Provisions – Rural and Rural Residential (PDF, 708.3 kb, new window)
This document explains the rural and rural residential zones and their management under the Dunedin City Council District Plan.

Plan Change 15 – Mosgiel Residential Expansion

Dunedin LMA Review – April 2007 (PDF, 4.4 mb, new window)
Boffa Miskell Limited were contracted by City Planning to assess the landscape values of Dunedin. This report contains descriptions, threats and values of the various landscape character areas identified. It also recommends a range of planning approaches for managing landscape values in rural Dunedin.

growRural Dunedin
growRural Dunedin is an initiative developed by the Dunedin City Council in conjunction with Dunedin Rural Development.

Post by Elizabeth Kerr

Undie 500 shifting

UPDATED

### ODT Online Fri, 18 Sep 2009
Demise of Undie pleases

City and university leaders in Dunedin and Christchurch are elated by yesterday’s announcement the Undie 500 rally will not return to Dunedin, describing it as inevitable after last weekend’s disorder.
Read more + some student reaction…

Other stories in ODT:
Defendants steer clear of waiting media
High school kids charged over Undie
Well, hello! Welcome to Police Arrest 101 – Inspector Dave Campbell’s open letter to Cantabrians.

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### RNZ National Thursday, 17 September 2009 17:51
Checkpoint with Mary Wilson
Undie 500 canned
The Undie 500 car rally has been canned after it led to rioting in Dunedin for the fourth year in a row. Audio (2:24)

### RNZ National Thursday, 17 September 2009 17:26
Checkpoint with Mary Wilson
Undie 500 organisers seek new destination
Organisers of the infamous Undie 500 rally say the event won’t be returning to Dunedin in the foreseeable future. Audio (4:24)

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### TVNZ News 2:56PM Thursday September 17, 2009
Undie 500 on the move, but who wants it?
Source: ONE News
Sighs of relief can be heard around Dunedin after Canterbury made the decision to move the Undie 500, but other South Island centres are holding their breath.
Read more
Video (2:04)

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### RNZ National Thursday, 17 September 2009 07:27
Morning Report with Geoff Robinson & Sean Plunket
Undie 500 mark two?
Canterbury university students who gave Dunedin the Undie 500 and its associated public disorder last weekend now have a new event on its way.
Audio Ogg Vorbis MP3 (4:44)

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### ODT Online Thu, 17 Sep 2009
Undie over for Dunedin

Organisers of the Undie 500 were unable to control the fringe elements “down there”, so Canterbury student leaders have turned the key off for the infamous Canterbury car rally to Dunedin.

“The UCSA and ENSOC (the Engineering Society of Canterbury which organised the annual rally), have resolved not to run the Undie 500 to Dunedin in the foreseeable future,” University of Canterbury Students’ Association president Steve Jukes said.
Read more

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The Undie 500 will get a new name and a new destination.

The mayors of Nelson, Greymouth, Timaru, Oamaru and Invercargill don’t want it coming to their towns.

Mayor Peter Chin couldn’t be happier. “Sanity has prevailed,” he says.

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### ODT Online Thu, 17 Sep 2009
Castle St accused in court
By Debbie Porteous

The Dunedin District Court has started processing the first large group of those arrested in the Undie 500 disorder last weekend. Twenty-four of 67 people arrested in and around Castle St from September 11 to September 13 were scheduled to make their first appearances this morning.
Read more

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OUSA president Edwin Darlow continues to blame Dunedin City Council for not allowing a managed Undie 500 event at a Dunedin venue; the council preferring to keep people out on the street with the resulting disorder. He hopes to attend the next North Dunedin Working Party meeting. Mr Darlow maintains the council has its head in the sand.

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ODT Online Thu, 17 Sep 2009
Chance to wipe slate
By Sarah Harvey

Travel and career opportunities are the two aspects of life most affected by a criminal record, but people with a minor conviction can wipe their “slate” clean because of legislation put in place in 2004. The people charged after the weekend’s Undie 500 disorder all face the prospect of a criminal record.
Read more

The Criminal Records (Clean Slate) Act 2004 means individuals with minor convictions for crimes that were committed seven or more years ago, and who have not re-offended since, are deemed to have no criminal record.

Post by Elizabeth Kerr

Stadium construction and sustainability. The review of mega-event stadiums (1990-2012)

What if? has covered a lot of topics on and off stadium subjects since Paul started the website. The following is a paper, now three years old, that by chance (haltingly) summarises many of the issues encountered here through posts and comments on stadiums.

The paper is interesting rather than astonishing as a piece of student writing and analysis goes; clearly English is a second language. The students’ supervisors could have worked them harder across the board.

If nothing else the paper underlines the fact that stadium construction itself is relentlessly astonishing on a global basis – why would we even attempt to equate stadium construction and sustainability in one breath…

We think – we know – we’ve got problems at Dunedin trying to build a rugby stadium for three little RWC pool games…after these, we haven’t thought much about the future of the facility, this has been evident from the very start.

Multiuse notions will be flung ill-fittingly at a relatively inflexible unconvincing building form. The construction budget has always been too small for the so-called multipurpose dream. The operating budget projections are shockingly inconsequential.

The stadium as it rises from the piles will read like a curtailment.

To turn the Otago stadium into a multipurpose venue – indeed, if in any way it is possible – will be the added drain on citizens and ratepayers.

For months the Carisbrook Stadium Trust has been avoiding face-to-face meetings with the Dunedin public (forced as main funder of the stadium), to explain the sustainable future of this building and the activity it hosts, within the city’s urban fabric.

Instead, vaguely interested people in the townships of Cromwell, Wanaka and Oamaru, for example, could be the only ones to interact with the CST ‘live update’ roadshow.

These are not the tactics of a socially responsible and accountable charitable trust – no, was it a trust with own mission working complicitly with Dunedin City Council to build a rugby venue that will stupefy and strangle citizens for twenty years, or more.

The Otago stadium, whether or not a pig’s ear (it is), can’t at all be mistaken for a mega-event stadium in a world city.

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Stadium construction and sustainability.
The review of mega-event stadiums (1990-2012)

Contributors: Sertac Erten and Sena Oezfiliz
Date of publication: 2006
Place of publication: Rotterdam, Netherlands

International CIB endorsed METU postgraduate conference, Ankara (Turkey), 17. Mar. 2006 – 18. Mar. 2006
Part of Conference: Built environment and information technologies

Abstract

This paper will try to review the near past of the mega-event stadium construction, and the recent approaches in stadium-building in terms of sustainable urban development and architecture. The research will cover the period of 1990-2012, from the start of sustainability discussions and their revealing implications on stadium-construction up to the forthcoming London 2012 Olympic Games and its stadium. The focus will be on the notions of flexibility in stadium design and post-event maintenance of stadiums for sustainable urban environment.

Full Text URL: http://www.irbnet.de/daten/iconda/06059012396.pdf

Post by Elizabeth Kerr

University of Minnesota TCF Bank Stadium

One of the most innovative and progressive stadium developments ever has been completed at the University of Minnesota. Below are a couple videos I came across on Discovery Channel over the weekend.

and this more recent one with a little more substance.

Ed: Paul
{You’re right Phil we do need to start adding who the Ed of each piece was – learning curves}.

PPS

Not quite the environment conducive to a family fun tailgate BBQ, is it.

Undie 500 rates stiff mention

### ODT Online Wed, 16 Sep 2009
Changes to alcohol legislation supported
By Elspeth McLean

Alcohol abuse is one of New Zealand’s most significant problems, and events surrounding the Undie 500 last weekend had brought the issues to the fore, the Otago and Southland community and public health advisory committee heard in Invercargill yesterday.
Read more

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### ODT Online Wed, 16 Sep 2009
First Castle St cases not students

Two Dunedin men, neither of them university students, are the first people to be convicted following last weekend’s Undie 500 disorder. Flatmates Hamish Thomas Munro (18), millhand, and Jai Shonker Prasad (27), process worker, both pleaded guilty by letter to breaching the temporary North Dunedin liquor ban in Castle St on Saturday.
Read more

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He travelled from Balclutha to be part of the Undie 500 weekend for “a fun time”.

### ODT Online Wed, 16 Sep 2009
Couch leap ‘stupid’, burnt student says
By Hamish McNeilly

Midway through jumping over a burning couch on Friday night, Telford Rural Polytechnic student Matthew Scally (18) had a horrible thought. “I’m not going to make it.”
Read more

STS owes DCC close to $10,000

### ODT Online Wed, 16 Sep 2009
Stop the Stadium to pay court costs
By David Loughrey

Stop the Stadium has been ordered to pay almost $10,000 court costs following its unsuccessful High Court bid in April to scuttle Dunedin’s stadium project.
Read more

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Note how D Scene down plays the figure to $9k in this week’s edition…

Also, ODT raises the point through council counsel Frazer Barton about personal liability – a good question. People at STS have previously been running with the theory that personal liability isn’t an issue due to the incorporated society status. Hmmm.

We look forward to the STS extraordinary general meeting – right now, the STS objectives are the same as they’ve always been. There is no mandate whatsoever for STS to turn into a ticket running at the next local government elections, although the names are coming forward in evidence.

Perhaps “the names” should call themselves something else, and not attempt to take the STS membership lists with them!

D Scene – STS ordered to pay DCC !!

### D Scene 16-9-09
STS ordered to pay $9k (page 7)
Stop The Stadium has been ordered to pay Dunedin City Council $9740 by the High Court. The decision, released yesterday, dismissed STS’s application for costs and upheld costs sought by DCC.
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Register to read D Scene online at http://fairfaxmedia.newspaperdirect.com/

Undie issues (page 3)
By Dave Wood, acting editor
The core issue behind the Undie 500 mayhem will not be solved in the next year; probably not in the next decade. Binge drinking is too ingrained in the New Zealand culture.
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Undie 500 students await fate (page 5)
By Michelle Sutton
Students directly involved in the Undie 500 mayhem face a nervous wait as Otago University determines what penalties will apply.
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Who exactly was arrested, find out here…
First students* appear in court (page 5)
By Wilma McCorkindale
The first court appearances in relation to the weekend’s Undie 500 mayhem were made yesterday with three people appearing in the Dunedin District Court.
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*These people are not described as students in other media…

Time to play the Blame Game again (page 5)
Student scene with Morgan Tait
It is this time each year, in the aftermath of the infamous Undie 500 visit to Dunedin, that interested parties engage in many rounds of the Blame Game.
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Some estimates…
‘Biggest cost is city’s reputation’ (page 6)
By Michelle Sutton
The cost of Dunedin’s Castle St carnage cannot be accurately measured. The physical clean up has already cost thousands of dollars, but city leaders expect it to escalate as the city’s reputation suffers the biggest loss.
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A week of it (page 10)
“I know they will pull out all the stops to get the stadium finished on time. It may be that the concrete’s still drying as the players run out.”
Find out who said this…

Talk: Dunedin on Dunedin (page 10)
Your say
Council planning by Lyndon Weggery, Kew
Mega-ward by Gavin MacDonald, St Kilda
Delta questions by Calvin Oaten, Pine Hill

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STS is NOT a political party. Would you vote for these people?
‘Our votes the key to everything’ (page 11)
The Stop The Stadium group is to consider a change of direction to focus on replacing Dunedin City Council and Otago Regional Council councillors at next year’s elections. Newly elected STS president Dave Witherow says the last three years have been an all-time low for the city.
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Name for RWC 2011 . . . Otago Stadium

As it should have been called all along.

### ODT Online Tue, 15 Sep 2009
Stadium branding forbidden for World Cup
By David Loughrey

Stadium sponsor Forsyth Barr may be barred from any advertising at the Dunedin facility – including naming rights – during the Rugby World Cup, because of rules demanding advertising-free stadiums.
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### ODT Online Tue, 15 Sep 2009
$90m in subcontracts agreed
By David Loughrey

Subcontracts worth $90 million have been approved for 14 companies for work on the Forsyth Barr Stadium, and 10 of those companies are based south of the Waitaki River.
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Undie 500 aftermath and distilling…

UPDATED

### ODT Online Tue, 15 Sep 2009
Teen remanded over Undie unrest

The first of the people charged after the weekend’s Undie 500 riots in Dunedin appeared in court today. Tessa Gabrielle Rieger, 19, was remanded until September 29 on a charge of disorderly behaviour in Castle St last Friday night, The Southland Times reported.
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### ODT Online Tue, 15 Sep 2009
Louts will face action: Skegg

The University of Otago will come down hard on students whose “loutish behaviour” at the weekend threatened the university’s reputation, vice-chancellor Prof Sir David Skegg says.
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### ODT Online Tue, 15 Sep 2009
Opinion: Undie riots in wider context
By Allan Brent, student author

With the predictability of spring following winter, the arrival of last weekend’s Undie 500 heralded a slippage into chaos on the streets of North Dunedin.
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Councillors out of their depth…

### ODT Online Tue, 15 Sep 2009
Link loans to behaviour
By Chris Morris

Dunedin’s deputy mayor is calling for student loans to be tied to lawful behaviour following a third year of Undie 500 chaos in North Dunedin.
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Other stories in ODT:
Alcohol law review visit `coincidence’
Centre could play host

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### Newstalk ZB 14/09/2009 12:44:02
Debriefing to follow Undie 500

Student leaders are to meet with the police and Dunedin Mayor Peter Chin this week to discuss the aftermath of the Undie 500. About 80 students are facing criminal charges after their involvement in riots on Friday and Saturday nights. Student representatives from both Otago and Canterbury University will be involved in a debrief of the event, before considerations are made about how to tackle the event in the future. Police are warning they will be making more arrests as they work through identifying those involved.
RNZ Link

What is the New Zealand Urban Design Protocol?

The New Zealand Urban Design Protocol is a voluntary commitment to specific urban design initiatives by signatory organisations, which include central and local government, the property sector, design professionals, professional institutes and other groups.

The Protocol aims to make our towns and cities more successful by using quality urban design to help them become:

* Competitive places that thrive economically and facilitate creativity and innovation
* Liveable places that provide a choice of housing, work and lifestyle options
* A healthy environment that sustains people and nature
* Inclusive places that offer opportunities for all citizens
* Distinctive places that have a strong identity and sense of place
* Well-governed places that have a shared vision and sense of direction

The Protocol identifies seven essential design qualities:

* Context: Seeing that buildings, places and spaces are part of the whole town or city
* Character: Reflecting and enhancing the distinctive character, heritage and identity of our urban environment
* Choice: Ensuring diversity and choice for people
* Connections: Enhancing how different networks link together for people
* Creativity: Encouraging innovative and imaginative solutions
* Custodianship: Ensuring design is environmentally sustainable, safe and healthy
* Collaboration: Communicating and sharing knowledge across sectors, professions and with communities.

Learn more about the Protocol here.

Local signatories to the Protocol include:

Dunedin City Council
University of Otago