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	{
		"post_id": "120", 
		"post_category_id": "12", 
		"post_title": "Draft Intensification Plan Change Released", 
		"post_content_short": "Auckland Council has published a draft version of a plan change to replace Plan Change 78. This will be the most consequential plan\nchange since the AUP was created.", 
		"post_icon": null, 
		"post_content_type": "page", 
		"post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.civitas.co.nz\/news\/draft-intensification-plan-change-released\/", 
		"post_date": "2025-08-20 22:00:00"
	}, 
	{
		"post_id": "116", 
		"post_category_id": "12", 
		"post_title": "NPS-UD and MDRS in Disarray", 
		"post_content_short": "Auckland Council's implementation of the NPS-UD and MDRS is in disarray following recent storm events, a belated decision to include the\nlight rail corridor, the resignation of two commissioners and the National Party's decision to withdraw support for the MDRS", 
		"post_icon": "", 
		"post_content_type": "page", 
		"post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.civitas.co.nz\/news\/nps-ud-and-mdrs-in-disarray\/", 
		"post_date": "2023-05-28 23:35:00"
	}, 
	{
		"post_id": "115", 
		"post_category_id": "12", 
		"post_title": "RMA Reform: the Resource Consent Process", 
		"post_content_short": "How will the resource consent process change under the Natural and Built Environment Act? And will we see faster and cheaper resource\nconsents?", 
		"post_icon": "", 
		"post_content_type": "page", 
		"post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.civitas.co.nz\/news\/rma-reform-the-resource-consent-process\/", 
		"post_date": "2023-05-01 02:50:00"
	}, 
	{
		"post_id": "114", 
		"post_category_id": "12", 
		"post_title": "RMA Reform: Key Elements and Key Questions", 
		"post_content_short": "This article provides an overview of the resource management framework proposed to replace the Resource Management Act.", 
		"post_icon": "", 
		"post_content_type": "page", 
		"post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.civitas.co.nz\/news\/rma-reform-key-elements-and-key-questions\/", 
		"post_date": "2023-05-01 02:32:00"
	}, 
	{
		"post_id": "113", 
		"post_category_id": "12", 
		"post_title": "NPS-UD and MDRS: Further Update on Auckland Council's Response", 
		"post_content_short": "The Auckland Council Planning Committee has met for the final time prior to notification of the Council's response to the RMA Amendment Act\n2021 and NPS-UD.", 
		"post_icon": "", 
		"post_content_type": "page", 
		"post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.civitas.co.nz\/news\/update-on-nps-ud-and-related-plan-changes\/", 
		"post_date": "2022-08-08 08:33:42"
	}, 
	{
		"post_id": "111", 
		"post_category_id": "12", 
		"post_title": "What's on Auckland's Planning Agenda", 
		"post_content_short": "Every now and then I like to peruse Auckland Council’s Planning Committee agendas to see what Council is up to. ", 
		"post_icon": "", 
		"post_content_type": "page", 
		"post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.civitas.co.nz\/news\/whats-on-aucklands-planning-agenda\/", 
		"post_date": "2022-07-04 01:16:00"
	}, 
	{
		"post_id": "112", 
		"post_category_id": "12", 
		"post_title": "NPSUD: Update on Auckland Council's Response", 
		"post_content_short": "Auckland Council’s Planning Committee completed a marathon 11 hour meeting on 30 June 2022 to consider its response to the NPS-UD.", 
		"post_icon": "", 
		"post_content_type": "page", 
		"post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.civitas.co.nz\/news\/npsud-update-on-auckland-councils-response\/", 
		"post_date": "2022-07-01 01:41:00"
	}, 
	{
		"post_id": "110", 
		"post_category_id": "12", 
		"post_title": "Upcoming Transport Plan Change", 
		"post_content_short": "Auckland Council has released additional information regarding its upcoming transport plan change.", 
		"post_icon": "", 
		"post_content_type": "page", 
		"post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.civitas.co.nz\/news\/upcoming-transport-plan-change\/", 
		"post_date": "2022-06-28 23:48:00"
	}, 
	{
		"post_id": "109", 
		"post_category_id": "12", 
		"post_title": "Upcoming Changes to Auckland Unitary Plan", 
		"post_content_short": "A recent report adopted by Auckland Council’s Planning Committee has provided additional detail on changes to the Unitary Plan under investigation", 
		"post_icon": "", 
		"post_content_type": "page", 
		"post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.civitas.co.nz\/news\/upcoming-changes-to-auckland-unitary-plan\/", 
		"post_date": "2022-04-06 20:28:31"
	}, 
	{
		"post_id": "108", 
		"post_category_id": "12", 
		"post_title": "NPS-UD: Updated Principles for Intensification", 
		"post_content_short": "Auckland Council’s Planning Committee has approved a new set of principles for addressing policy 3(d) of the National Policy Statement\r\n\ton Urban Development\r\n", 
		"post_icon": "", 
		"post_content_type": "page", 
		"post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.civitas.co.nz\/news\/nps-ud-updated-principles-for-intensification\/", 
		"post_date": "2022-03-07 19:28:52"
	}, 
	{
		"post_id": "107", 
		"post_category_id": "12", 
		"post_title": "Bye Bye Parking Requirements (hello new rules and regulations...)", 
		"post_content_short": "Minimum parking requirements have now been removed from the Auckland Unitary Plan.  What are the implications of that?", 
		"post_icon": "", 
		"post_content_type": "page", 
		"post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.civitas.co.nz\/news\/bye-bye-parking-requirements-hello-new-rules-and-regulations\/", 
		"post_date": "2022-02-20 20:19:00"
	}, 
	{
		"post_id": "106", 
		"post_category_id": "12", 
		"post_title": "Medium Density Residential Standards - Update", 
		"post_content_short": "The Government has amended its Medium Density Residential Standards to alter the intensity of development able to be undertaken as a permitted activity ", 
		"post_icon": "", 
		"post_content_type": "page", 
		"post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.civitas.co.nz\/news\/medium-density-residential-standards-update\/", 
		"post_date": "2022-02-20 19:48:34"
	}, 
	{
		"post_id": "104", 
		"post_category_id": "12", 
		"post_title": "Medium Density Residential Standards - FAQs", 
		"post_content_short": "Short answers to frequently asked questions on the Medium Density Residential Standards.", 
		"post_icon": "", 
		"post_content_type": "page", 
		"post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.civitas.co.nz\/news\/medium-density-residential-standards-frequently-asked-questions\/", 
		"post_date": "2021-11-10 08:43:00"
	}, 
	{
		"post_id": "103", 
		"post_category_id": "12", 
		"post_title": "Winners and Losers under the RMA Amendment Bill", 
		"post_content_short": "The RMA Amendment Bill will create winners and losers.  How will it impact you - will you be a winner or loser?", 
		"post_icon": "", 
		"post_content_type": "page", 
		"post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.civitas.co.nz\/news\/winners-and-losers-under-the-rma-amendment-bill\/", 
		"post_date": "2021-11-09 03:40:00"
	}, 
	{
		"post_id": "102", 
		"post_category_id": "12", 
		"post_title": "Medium Density Residential Standards - what the?", 
		"post_content_short": "The Medium Density Residential Standards proposed in the RMA Amendment Bill will enable significant intensification in our main urban areas.", 
		"post_icon": "", 
		"post_content_type": "page", 
		"post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.civitas.co.nz\/news\/medium-density-residential-standards-what-are-they-and-what-difference-will-they-make\/", 
		"post_date": "2021-11-08 03:06:00"
	}, 
	{
		"post_id": "101", 
		"post_category_id": "12", 
		"post_title": "Changes to RMA to Enable and Accelerate Intensification", 
		"post_content_short": "The Resource Management (Enabling Housing Supply and Other Matters) Amendment Bill will supercharge the National Policy Statement on Urban\r\nDevelopment.", 
		"post_icon": "", 
		"post_content_type": "page", 
		"post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.civitas.co.nz\/news\/changes-to-the-rma-proposed-to-accelerate-intensification\/", 
		"post_date": "2021-11-05 02:25:00"
	}, 
	{
		"post_id": "100", 
		"post_category_id": "12", 
		"post_title": "Removal of Car Parking Minimums (how to make a simple task complicated)", 
		"post_content_short": "After sitting on \/ studying the NPS-UD requirement to remove car parking minimums from its plans for more than a year, Auckland Council\r\n\thas given its first public hints at how it proposes to respond to this requirement.", 
		"post_icon": "", 
		"post_content_type": "page", 
		"post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.civitas.co.nz\/news\/removal-of-carpark-minimums-aka-how-to-make-a-simple-task-complicated\/", 
		"post_date": "2021-09-06 22:15:00"
	}, 
	{
		"post_id": "99", 
		"post_category_id": "12", 
		"post_title": "Auckland Development Contributions – Big Increases on the Way", 
		"post_content_short": "Auckland Council is poised to propose significant increases in development contributions in parts of the region.", 
		"post_icon": "", 
		"post_content_type": "page", 
		"post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.civitas.co.nz\/news\/auckland-development-contributions-big-increases-on-the-way\/", 
		"post_date": "2021-09-06 06:13:00"
	}, 
	{
		"post_id": "98", 
		"post_category_id": "12", 
		"post_title": "NPS-UD: Auckland Council's Timeline for Responding", 
		"post_content_short": "Auckland Council has a number of workstreams underway in response to the National Policy Statement on Urban Development.  In this blog, we give you an overview of the timelines for those workstreams.", 
		"post_icon": "", 
		"post_content_type": "page", 
		"post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.civitas.co.nz\/news\/nps-ud-auckland-councils-timeline-for-responding\/", 
		"post_date": "2021-08-05 20:47:32"
	}, 
	{
		"post_id": "97", 
		"post_category_id": "12", 
		"post_title": "NPS-UD: Further Detail on Auckland Council's Response", 
		"post_content_short": "Auckland Council has expanded on how it proposes to respond to the National Policy Statement on Urban Development in "all other\r\nlocations".", 
		"post_icon": "", 
		"post_content_type": "page", 
		"post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.civitas.co.nz\/news\/nps-ud-further-detail-on-auckland-councils-response\/", 
		"post_date": "2021-08-04 08:30:00"
	}, 
	{
		"post_id": "96", 
		"post_category_id": "12", 
		"post_title": "NPS-UD: Auckland Council's Initial Response", 
		"post_content_short": "The Government’s National Policy Statement on Urban Development 2020 (“<strong>NPS-UD<\/strong>”) is arguably the most consequential statement of government policy on urban development in New Zealand’s recent history.  And it’s about to start “hitting home”.", 
		"post_icon": "", 
		"post_content_type": "page", 
		"post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.civitas.co.nz\/news\/auckland-councils-initial-response-to-the-nps-ud\/", 
		"post_date": "2021-06-29 00:54:36"
	}, 
	{
		"post_id": "95", 
		"post_category_id": "12", 
		"post_title": "GPS-HUD: More Waffle than Breakfast at Denny's", 
		"post_content_short": "The Government has released a discussion document for its upcoming Government Policy Statement on Housing and Urban Development (“<strong>GPS-HUD<\/strong>”)", 
		"post_icon": "", 
		"post_content_type": "page", 
		"post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.civitas.co.nz\/news\/gps-hud-more-waffle-than-breakfast-at-dennys\/", 
		"post_date": "2021-06-27 20:43:00"
	}, 
	{
		"post_id": "92", 
		"post_category_id": "12", 
		"post_title": "Auckland Council adopts NorthWest Spatial Strategy", 
		"post_content_short": "Auckland Council has updated and adopted the NorthWest Spatial Land Use Strategy following public feedback over the Christmas period.", 
		"post_icon": "", 
		"post_content_type": "page", 
		"post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.civitas.co.nz\/news\/northwest-spatial-strategy\/", 
		"post_date": "2021-05-24 02:11:45"
	}, 
	{
		"post_id": "58", 
		"post_category_id": "12", 
		"post_title": "Affordable Housing (inclusionary zoning is back on the agenda)", 
		"post_content_short": "Auckland has an affordable housing problem - will inclusionary zoning be Council's solution?", 
		"post_icon": null, 
		"post_content_type": "page", 
		"post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.civitas.co.nz\/news\/affordable-housing-inclusionary-zoning-is-back-on-the-agenda\/", 
		"post_date": "2020-09-25 09:11:00"
	}, 
	{
		"post_id": "57", 
		"post_category_id": "12", 
		"post_title": "What's Auckland Council up to?", 
		"post_content_short": "Every now and then I like to peruse the Council Planning Committee agendas to see what Council is up to.", 
		"post_icon": null, 
		"post_content_type": "page", 
		"post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.civitas.co.nz\/news\/whats-auckland-council-up-to\/", 
		"post_date": "2020-09-25 08:45:00"
	}
]