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To: Moominoid who wrote (15915)	3/24/2007 11:06:54 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218309

Moom, <if I am a contractor and have all the right licences I can build my own home? > Not until you have a notified consent, building permit, Resource Management Act approval, and various bureaucratic approvals of designs and contributions to public facilities and this that and the other. You will need a law degree before you can get anywhere near starting the foundations or altering any vegetation which is on your proposed site. And, being a foreigner, you will not be able to buy certain property without various approvals, Koha, superstitious imprecations, government approvals and whatnot. Don't even think about draining a swamp [now called Sacred Sustainable Wetlands]. Be careful of Taniwha. Don't touch wahi tapu. Keep clear of anywhere involving potential Maori claims of colonial land or other theft. Whatever you do, don't hurt or even insult a native tree such as totara, rimu, kauri, puriri etc. Even seedlings are sacred. Seeds are legally protected too. You can abort a foetus legally, but do NOT touch a sacred tree [which is pretty much any tree]. Trees are allowed to kill you and your children. Engineers have to go through all sorts of hoops to build trivial structures. Trees are allowed to build tons of huge limbs right over the top of children's play areas without getting even an inspection, let alone a design permit and calculation check from the local authority. Self-defence against a threat is no defence. Here is a Taiwanese woman killed the other day by a tree in Hamilton. Trees do NOT love immigrants. stuff.co.nz We are not racist in New Zealand, so you will notice that there is no report on the race of the tree. Maybe it was a rimu, maybe it was an oak. Could have been a pine. Possibly an Australian gum, though they tend to snap rather than fall over in wind. Note also that there is no trial for the tree, which gets away with murder. It will probably get a government-funded tapu lifting and karakia. A tree person can no doubt see from this photo what race of tree done it: stuff.co.nz In Auckland, it has been many years since a big storm. Meanwhile, trees have been growing like crazy, none of them with building permits, design checks, inspections, Resource Management Act approval or payment of any money. They are hanging over power wires, houses, roads and all over the place. When the Big Blow comes, it's going to be chaos. Electricity will be out for days or weeks as there aren't sufficient people to handle lots of repairs. Roads will be cleared quickly as lots of people have chain saws and won't muck about when the chips are down, so to speak. With luck, the people killed will be those and the children of those who are registered tree huggers who stop other people cutting their own trees down to size. As is usual, after the disaster, government will trundle into gear with some new rules requiring people to apply for permits to prune dangerous trees or maybe their properties will be deemed uninhabitable they'll be forced out and their houses destroyed. One can't be too careful you know. And we can't hurt trees. I wonder who would win if a big pohutukawa is growing into and over a listed house occupied by a Maori. Would the government require the tree be cut? Would the house be removed? Would the Maori be allowed to cut the tree and destroy the house, building a swanky new place with all mod cons? What does Te Tiriti say about it? . It is like rock, scissors, paper. Paper beats rock, scissors beat paper, rock beats scissors. Meanwhile, your house project is doable, but the main thing is the process and payment to all those who want to clip the ticket. WWII was announced, fought and won quicker than you can build a house. Mqurice