On Thursday 30 March the Auckland Council Planning Committee will receive an internal report on compliance and decide how to better regulate helicopters within the planning system. This follows years of advocacy from residents in Herne Bay and Waiheke who are frustrated by the proliferation of helicopter pads and the significant impact they have on the wellbeing of people and animals nearby. The report suggests compliance is adequate and notes there are few complaints. However, there has been no consultation with residents who make the point that there is no proactive enforcement of compliance. The council relies on complaints to act and discourages feedback by providing no avenues to complain, noting on its website that it does not deal with aviation noise. When people do complain about breaches of consent they are required to know exactly what helicopter is used and the address of the consent holder. This creates an impossibly high bar for most people to meet. However, it was clear from a notified submission in Cremorne St last year which attracted 130 submissions, all in opposition, that feelings in affected neighbourhoods run high and that local residents with experience of living near private helipads want them banned in urban residential areas entirely. Waiheke local board chair Cath Handley and Elena Keith of Quiet Sky Waitemata talk about the issues, why Auckland is an outlier, the changes in approach needed and why they want National Planning Standard 15 for helicopter noise measurement to be incorporated into planning decisions immediately.
Gene Wilder – Pure Imagination
Devendra Banhart – Saturday Night
Regina Spektor – Small Bill$
Sleigh Bells – It's Just Us Now
Nightcrawler – Dystopia
DBLDBL – Gains
Tkay Maidza – Carry On feat. Killer Mike
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Push The Sky Away
Johnny Cash – Hurt
serpentwithfeet – four ethers
Soft Hair – Lying Has To Stop
Thundercat – Bus In These Streets
Swet Shop Boys – Tiger Hologram
L'Orange & Mr. Lif – Strange Technology feat. Akrobatik & Gonjasufi
Bon Iver – 33 GOD
Oberhofer – Pure Imagination
Factory Floor – 25 25
The Raveonettes – A Good Fight
Crystal Castles – Fleece
Sam Evian – I Need A Man
The Growlers – City Club
Tennisinc – Ladies Don't Play Guitar
Angel Olsen – Intern
Yohuna – Apart
Boxed In – Forget
Mick Jenkins – Spread Love
Local Natives – Coins
Cate Le Bon – Wonderful
Couple of new things alongside some classics, spat this tape out over a couple late nights inbetween fits of boredom and a slightly amplified base level of paranoia as this stupid fucking year plods on.
I'm just gonna dump the playlist here:
VLAD TEPES – RETURNING TO MY OLD BATTLEGROUND
THE SHITS – MURDER ON MY MIND
PROSTATE – PROSTATE
CERNUNNOS – LAMENTATION OF A HOBGOBLIN (DUNGEON OF RATS AND BATS)
TOMBCRUSHER – CREATION OF BLASPHEMIES
Μνήμα – INVOCATION
INFERNAL LEGIONS OF MORDOR – TRAX (69 SONGS ABOUT HOW I THINK COTTAGECORE IS FALSE AND NOISECORE IS TRVE
FENTANYL SURPRISE – PROSTHETIC FACE
MANKIND’S DEVASTATION – UNTITLED (UNRELEASED SESSION)
ELECTRIC EELS – ACCIDENT
THOMAS JEFFERSON SLAVE APARTMENTS – MY MYSTERIOUS DEATH (TURN IT UP AGAIN)
TRIPLE SIX MAFIA – RIDIN’ N DA CHEVY
LAST DAYS OF HUMANITY – EXCREMENTAL CARNAGE
DEAD INFECTION – DAY OF DECAY
SPECTRAL VOICE – INEFFABLE WINDS
LIL NOID – LOAD MY CLIP
INNUMERABLE FORMS – DESPOTIC RULE
GORGON – THE LADY RIDES A BLACK HORSE
WARSORE – STOP POSING AND KILL SOMEONE
MILUMET – COINCIDENCE REARRANGED
LIZA ‘N’ ELIZA – LET THE BASSDRUM GO
BILLY BAO – UNTITLED
ROBBER – MAIN MAN
RAPID DYE – GET OUT
BOWEL RUPTURE – LIVIDITY
I miss the 95bFM coffee machine very dearly. A thousands praises to the skeleton crew keeping the station going.
The government announced their ideal route for the new Auckland city light rail last week. The light rail is intended to connect the Auckland Airport with other parts of the city in order to improve public transport efficency. However, out of the three route options proposed the governments top choice is garnerning criticism from many with regards to it's practicality. The Public Transport Users Association was apart of the inital conversations between the government and the Auckland Light Rail Project as to what would be the best way to link the Auckland Airport with other parts of the city. Emily Bell spoke to the National Coordinator for the Public Transport Users Association about the government's light rail route choice and what other alternatives could be put in place instead.
Frances Chan’s multicelebration show rejoices in Stevie Wonder’s birthday, Mother’s Day and NZ Music Month.
Setlist:
Stevie Wonder – Contusion
Flora Purim ft Diana Purim – If You Will
Latinaotearoa – Son Montuno
Taylor Griffin ft Michal Martyniuk, Rachel Clarke – Let’s Just Talk
China Moses ft Dee Dee Bridgewater – Every Day I Get the Blues (live)
Rodger Fox Big Band – New Tune
Terri Lyne Carrington – Money Jungle
Alex Pipes – Chant
Dr Tree – One for Dianne
Mary Lou Williams – What’s Your Story Morning Glory?
Louis Cole, Metropole Orkest – Things Will Fall Apart
Frescia Belmar – Everybody Likes You Now
Nick Taylor Experience – Sarah Sarah (live)
Stevie Wonder – As If You Read My Mind
Alice Coltrane (produced by Ravi Coltrane) – Jagadishwar
Karen Mantler ft Carla Bley – Farewell
Bread & Souls: Mark de Clive-Lowe, Vanessa Freeman, Bembe Segue – Little Did I Know
Yurt Party – Pea Straw Thief
Stevie Wonder – Fingertips pts 1 & 2 (live)
Alright - James K
Glimpses of Death - Sophia Loizou
Les mains - Racine
Earth Inside Them - Egg Meat
Demonology - Significant Other
How to Walk Away from Something That’s Hurting You (Aarti Jadu Remix) - Hextape
Spangled (with Stella) - Ben Bondy
Spoons - Silvia Kastel
Apologise - Klein
IV-XXXII - Riki Pirihi & Alistair Fraser
Sativa - Stoned Titan
Leap of Faith (Ur not alone) - cellvl
Blue Forest - Dua Lity
I Hate Being Sober - Shinetiac
Last Chance - Klein
Death of Microtuning in Bohemia - CA2+
Drifting in the Third Person - Significant Other
Artificial Infinite - Sophia Loizou
Safe - Lcy
Yung Groom - Toma Kami
Evil Day - Stone
Things Fall Apart - Nexcyia
So Sorry - Xenia Reaper
Deep Breath - Dave Saved
Over - Emptyset
Functioning on the Low - Iceboy Violet
Mon amour je ne guéris jamais - Racine
A Barely Lit Path - Oneohtrix Point Never
L’amour toujours - Pontiac Streator
Liminal Angel - Kagami Smile
See You, Bye Bye - Dua Lity
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