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diff --git a/assignment3/background.tex b/assignment3/background.tex index 024b448..1d5c055 100644 --- a/assignment3/background.tex +++ b/assignment3/background.tex @@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ that advocated in district plans and those being applied in resource consents. [...] For a number of reasons, most plans are more ambitious in their scope and intentions than is realised in practice through - techniques used in consents. \parencite[p 13][]{confessions} + techniques used in consents. \parencite[][p 13]{confessions} \end{quote} %TODO: report on the sad state of council plans that have had @@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ the area of evaluation techniques---may actually be suppressed as a consequence of a lack of capacity on the level of local government. Summarising the effect of capacity on consent processing practice, -\textcite[p 46][]{confessions} comes to this conclusion: +\textcite[][p 46]{confessions} comes to this conclusion: \begin{quote} The findings of this research would suggest that low capacity forces @@ -306,15 +306,16 @@ It would not be fair to conclude from this case study that economic benefit generally outweighs the concerns of the public. In September 2012, the Dunedin City Council publicly notified a proposal to construct a 28-storey\footnote{In the initial announcement by the city -council the hotel's height was reported as 27 floors plus -basement \parencite{hotel-announce}.} tall hotel on Wharf Street close +council the hotel's height was reported as 27 floors plus basement, +while news reports consistently referred to its proposed height as 28 +storeys \parencite{hotel-announce}.} tall hotel on Wharf Street close to Otago Harbour. Despite the economic benefits that the city of Dunedin could derive from the construction of a modern five star hotel and the mayor's backing of the project, about 80 per cent of the 507 submissions were in opposition of the proposal, mostly because the bulky hotel was considered too tall and its style not in character with its surroundings. After two hearings and the applicant's refusal -to demonstrate the height of the hotel using a tethered baloon or +to demonstrate the height of the hotel using a tethered balloon or helicopter, the council sided with the opponents and rejected the proposal on 6 June, 2013 \parencite{hotel-rejected}. @@ -324,7 +325,7 @@ consent, we had to be very certain that the effects of imposing this structure on this site had been fully canvassed in the application and were able to be fully understood. Unfortunately, this was not the case. \emph{The application suffered, in our view, from a lack of -proper information.}'' \parencite[p 93][emphasis +proper information.}'' \parencite[][p 93, emphasis mine]{hotel-decision}. This is a somewhat surprising statement as this `lack of proper information' did not prevent the application from passing the council's review and only became apparent after a record |