by Cimino | 4 Jun 2013 | Regional governance
September’s scheduled notification of the Auckland Unitary Plan is now in doubt. Despite that, it is possible that any further informal discussion of the draft plan will only be between Auckland Council and selected groups, and Mahurangi Action is not in that...
by Cimino | 26 May 2013 | Regional governance
First reason: It will be the 50th summer of Auckland’s coastal regional parks. The coastal parks commenced with the purchase of Wenderholm Regional Park on 31 March 1965, and its opening the following December. It was an immediate success as Aucklanders poured into...
by Cimino | 8 May 2013 | Regional governance, Sea-level rise
Len’s in danger of loosing it. As was all too apparent halfway through the term of Aotearoa’s first mayoral office to enjoy significant executive powers, Mayor Brown has bet the farm on a project for which he has little to show, come local body election year. Had...
by Arnold R Turner CMG | 30 Apr 2013 | Regional parks
In the early 1960s, Mr F W O Jones, Auckland’s regional planning officer, was concerned at the rapid growth of urban development along Auckland’s coastline, which was preventing all but a favoured few from having access to good beaches. He recommended that large...
by Cimino | 27 Apr 2013 | Climate mobilisation
Dedicated to Rita Alice Elizabeth Wright 25 August 1916 – 26 April 2013 Amidst a rash of high-profile setbacks, he’s just played a blinder. What little remained of President Barack Obama’s gun control legislation has been unceremoniously buried by the gun...
by Cimino | 26 Mar 2013 | Moratorium on population
Corrected 30 March 2013 The Green Party doesn’t understand anthropogenic global warming: …we can expect droughts to be more extreme and strike more often if we don’t take global action. Never mind if—droughts will be more extreme and will strike more often, they are...
by Cimino | 17 Mar 2013 | Reviews
Ozzie Zehner’s magnum opus is mostly other than about the dirtiness of clean energy. Green Illusions: The dirty secrets of clean energy and future of environmentalism is more about the last few words of its subtitle—what the author terms: Future environmentalism....
by Cimino | 3 Mar 2013 | Regional parks
Mahurangi can best ease the region’s growing pains by not housing its share of Aucklanders. According to the introductory video on the new unitary plan website, Aucklanders want a high quality, more compact city, in the face of the expected 30-year growth rate of 600...
by Cimino | 26 Feb 2013 | Meetings and celebrations
Meeting Mahurangi Action Incorporated Committee Resolutions Resolutions unanimous unless otherwise noted Date Tuesday 26 February 2013 Time 5.30 pm Start Meeting opened at 5.37 pm Attending Cimino Cole, Michael Gordon, Mike Hanne and Burnette O’Connor...
