District Plan Review Hui, Te Puke Settlers Hall, 02.07.08

General Rules
Roads – Te Tumu/Kaituna – who is responsible for maintenance currently?
Tauranga City involved in Eastern Arterial?  Have had discussions with Transit – who are responsible – concerns about earthworks related to this.
To end of Papamoa Beach Road – allowed to be developed in this plan – road hierarchy as part of this (Wairakei).
Te Tumu – not planned now till 2021 – other areas such as Pyes Pa.
Wairakei – Eastern Arterial link – into detailed design now – significant earthworks re preloading.  (will be accompanied by local roads – as in Plan Change 44 Wairakei.
Some developments occur on Maori land prior to timeline, can some developments occur on Te Tumu before the timeline?
Ongoing discussion about town centre overlapping into Te Tumu – including traffic network.
Airport – going to control noise and traffic – expand on site? Move out to Paengaroa?
Airport has own noise controls – discussions with these as to effectiveness. Mayor advised: Airport looking at noise rules, airport reaching capacity, 3rd busiest in NZ. Working with flight schools to deviate from flight paths over residential area/Whareroa. Will remain a domestic airport and are not going to expand. Rotorua looking at being an international airport.
Eastern Motorway Beca team working on this project and on earthworks concerns with Tangata Whenua.

Natural Environment and Landscape

Looking at the cultural aspect of this too
Collaboration between local, regional authorities etc
Ecological pathway discussions, forestkind, birds, e.g. tui passage from mountain to sea
Linking flora and fauna (relationship)
Don’t forget mountain to sea; what it is, what does it encompass
Tangata Whenua and local DOC etc need to be included in this process.
Could planting in future reserves (e.g. coastal strip) be planted in local/native species.
Papamoa Heritage Park example of area being revegetated in native species 

Cultural and Heritage

Buffer from wahi tapu?  Where does it begin and end?
Process to identify sites/areas – iwi/hapu management plans and protocols etc
Development of maori land – want to ensure wahi tapu site is protected.
Is it working effectively today?
Issue of archaeologist report assessing the extent etc
Identification of sites
How far do we take into regard areas as staff (dot on map)
Looking for good process.
In the past often didn’t want to identify site but needs to be identified to protect it i.e. process to ensure tangata whenua have input to indicate extent etc
In the past it has been ad hoc, need good communication between departments/authorities etc.
How do we improve methods/workings and understand process when issue arises
Sensitive/sentimental attachment especially to wahi tapu, buffer often a much wider space than identified site – tangata whenua need to identify.
Building Inventory in Cultural Strategy; need to get this right – issue of remedying different mindsets about what is important – mismatch between world views
Need to be using same language, so that there is a common system in terminology
Integrated system of wahi tapu identification /protection

Reserves and Waterbodies

Kaituna/Waiari responsibilities – water tank/pipline – infrastructure
Example of stormwater outlets to coast – issues with mitigation
Water should be top priority – taking, discharging etc, adjacent landuse issues (e.g. farming)
How will protocols/plans be taken into account in D Plan?
Ongoing life of the District Plan – how are tangata whenua going to be part of this?
Will harbour management plans, protocols etc be part of guiding plan development/taken into account.

Natural Hazards

Protection of sand dunes – likely place of koiwi is dunes at back , natural elements, put there for protection from these.

Hazardous Substances

Technical chapter
HSSP – process/tests/thresholds
Desire to make it more user-friendly, education material
Contaminated land – need for identification
Sprays from kiwifruit orchards – spraydrift
Need to look at industrial vs residential boundaries

Financial Plans

Streamlined process

Residential/Rural/Papakainga Living

Designation/zone/intention/registration – to identify the intention of the use of an area for papakainga
Maori land tenure – issues, need to identify this matter in the District Plan. Need to zone for papkainga.
Issues non-residential uses in residential zones – setbacks etc
Re zoning of land such as Wairakei and need to consider archaeological sites and cultural sites.
Maori land – 3 zones apply – Urban/Rural Maori – Matapihi etc, Rural Zone
How to develop land that is Maori land – 2 houses per block, how does this provide for papakainga – resource consent/
Need to achieve balance between rural character and housing. Where should these be, what blocks miss out.
Council want tangata whenua to identify what they want to see on their lands.
Noted that tangata whenua/councils working on the Papkainga Tool kit.
Issue around size of blocks that have been broken down to below 2 hectares (or similar) should these become rural residential?
How high can we build in a specific zone – 9m.
Do we have the right stuff in the District Plan to consider applications for dwellings that want to go higher.
We should be looking at what rules we can take away to make papkainga hosuing work.

Commercial Zone

No real rules – set by market
Should TCC exert more control over these zones, form of building, parking
Development (Industrial areas) should not be built around sensitive sites such as rivers etc.
Need to develop good maps to aid in consultation and allow people to understand what is going on.

Subdivision

Division of land which leads to the built environment
Current status – minimum standards
Should we break up the city to create specific suburb standards
Infrastructure – working with WBOPDC through development of the COP (Code of Practice) – alternative solutions
Sewage/waterways etc – need to plan and where subdivision can go and need for monitoring