Last week I put out a post on possible mechanisms to enable groups of neighbours to protect their interests in their own and each others’ properties, while allowing the flexibility for them, rather than councils, to determine what, if any, and when changes in the land use rules affecting that group of properties would be put in place. It was prompted by a combination of the Productivity Commission’s recent discussion of the private covenants that reportedly apply to most new developments, and the conflict in various Wellington suburbs around the council’s desire to determine which suburbs should be more intensively built and which should not. Neither the Commission’s apparent distaste for private covenants, nor the situation where councils can somewhat arbitrarily – and without any compensation for the regulatory taking – alter private property rights, seemed very appealing.
This afternoon, I stumbled on this post from the Not PC blog. It is several years old, but still seems very…
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