"Has this landed where we wanted it to?"
That was Gisborne district councillor Kerry Worsnop's question for the table as elected members deliberated the region's rates for the next 10 years.
Worsnop pointed to an East Coast property worth $95,000 facing a rate increase of 4.3 percent, or $62, compared to a $1.22 million property in Gisborne's Lytton West, where rates would only increase by $55.
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She pointed to an East Coast property worth $95,000 facing a rate increase of 4.3 percent, or $62, compared to a $1.22 million property in Gisborne's Lytton West, where rates would only increase by $55.
"That just seems bizarre and ridiculous if you're trying to address affordability because that trend is perpetuated across all of the rural townships," Cr Worsnop said.