17/12/2024
Submit to this if you are able to!!! Instructions are easy to follow in the post 🙏
DUE MIDNIGHT TONiGHT
Hey everyone in Ōtepoti who loves music! This is a wee reminder that submissions on the Plan Change 1 to the Partially Operative Dunedin City Second Generation District Plan (2GP) are due tomorrow.
I know that sounds a bit confusing! So what are we asking you to submit on? Well basically, in the inner city in Dunedin, developers don't have to acoustically insulate new residential apartments to the same level as in other cities in Aotearoa. What does acoustic insulation mean? It's how good the building is at keeping noise out! And why does that matter to our music scene? Because if noise gets into people's bedrooms, then they can't sleep and they complain and venues get shut down.
Why are Dunedin's requirements lower than everywhere else?!!! Well that's a good question and I have no idea. But the current situation is bad for residents, bad for venues and bad for the vibrancy of our city!!
So currently in Dunedin, the insulation has to be such that the reduction from outside to inside of residential rooms is 30dB. Save Dunedin Live Music have lobbied long and hard to get this changed. The proposed change to the plan (35dB) would bring our city up to the same level as some others (Wellington for example) but still not as good as they could be (40dB reduction in Queenstown).
We're now asking you to all please, please submit that you either support the changes (because you support a vibrant city!) or to ask them to do even more to protect live music by adopting the higher level like they do in Queenstown (because you support a vibrant city, but extra!).
Instructions for submitting from the amazing Francisca Griffin are in comment one.
The wording you need to use for acoustic insulation changes is in comment 2. Yep, this is wordy but that's why musicians tend not to submit on things while developer's lawyers do, so please make that effort! Copy paste how I said it, this part doesn't have to be original. But the reasons you love music in Dunedin and why it matters to you should be original!
Also if you have any questions at all about what those acoustic standards mean, hit up Fairleigh Gilmour or Hugh Harlow and we can explain anything.
More Info in comments.
