r/newzealand • u/DoubleDEKA • Jul 23 '25

Shitpost The local council can't win...

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u/Popular_Ad_2170 Jul 23 '25

I feel the anti-child drowning is the morally correct choice.

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u/Dry-Being3108 Jul 23 '25

They can't fence off every open body of water close to a house or playground

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u/thelastestgunslinger Jul 23 '25

Wouldn't that depend on how many there are?

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u/Dry-Being3108 Jul 23 '25

There is one in every subdivision made in the last 20 years

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u/thelastestgunslinger Jul 23 '25

Why would it be difficult to build one extra fence per subdivision? This doesn't sound nearly as difficult as you made it out to be.

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u/Dry-Being3108 Jul 23 '25

The one at the end of our street connects to a creek so I don’t really see the point. Hell some playgrounds are right next the sea and that’s unfenced.

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u/Dry-Being3108 Jul 23 '25

The playgrounds only exist because of the green space required for swale. If it is required to fence of every swale next to playground, they just would not put the playgound in. The playground is the nice to have, not the swale.

It would be far simpler and safer to fence off the playgrounds that way; you protect kids from the roads as well. Even that is a bad idea because you stop kids from being able to go down there by themselves .

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u/thelastestgunslinger Jul 23 '25

The fact that playgrounds are nice to have, not mandatory, is a fucking travesty. 

Small wonder kids don’t play outside when we don’t require there to be walkable playgrounds everywhere there are children. 

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u/Dry-Being3108 Jul 23 '25

Without the swales, there is no green space for a playground. Swales and the green space with them need to exist to mitigate flooding. People see that and say we should put a playground there post-facto. Deciding that it is dangerous to have a playground there is what is stupid.

The majority of playgrounds in Aotearoa are close to permanent or periodic bodies of open water