by Cimino | 22 Jan 2016 | Regional parks
Long-form formal submission supporting coastal trail Auckland Council has provided an online form that short-changes the Mahurangi Coastal Trail. While it allows submitters to respond to the primary actions and developments contemplated in the draft variation to the...
by Cimino | 16 Jan 2016 | Regional parks
Prospects for the Mahurangi Coastal Trail aren’t as dismal as they appear. Or at least as they fail to appear, in the primary actions and developments contemplated in the draft variation to the Auckland Regional Parks management plan published yesterday. While...
by Mahurangi Action | 14 Jan 2016 | Regatta 2017
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the regatta revival by Mahurangi Action Regatta Day Saturday 28 January 2017 Friday Night-Race to Mahurangi 3 pm Classic A and Modern Classics 3.05 pm Classic B and Woollacott Series 3.10 pm B Division – Hyslop Cup 6 pm A...
by Cimino | 4 Jan 2016 | Climate action economics, Climate mobilisation
Post Paris, the obligatory image accompanying stories heralding the historic 195-country agreement is of banks of photovoltaic panels. If that does prove to be the immediate future, along with massive wind farms and millions of electric cars, global warming will go...
by Cimino | 27 Dec 2015 | Four waters
It was the reason, in 1974, that Mahurangi Action was formed. The Warkworth Town Council was forging ahead with long overdue long-term plans for its wastewater treatment, without a skerrick of consultation with the community, much less the Mahurangi oyster farmers...
by Cimino | 21 Dec 2015 | Regional parks
Parks czar provides perfect Te Muri Christmas present On 18 December 1965, Aucklanders awoke to a Christmas present for posterity. Nine months earlier the region had learned that, thanks to the establishment of an authority that was able to act in the combined...
by Cimino | 15 Dec 2015 | Regional parks
With the 50th anniversary of the opening of Wenderholm to be marked this Friday, supporters are calling for a bold new community–council plan for the regional parks network’s next 50 years. The original visionaries, the region’s first planner, Frederick W O Jones, and...
by Cimino | 30 Nov 2015 | Regional parks
Disdaining community input council plans new group Simultaneously, it’s one of the best and the most preposterous proposals of the draft plan: Establish a friends group for the park and wider network of Mahurangi regional parks. Preposterous because, having relegated...
by Cimino | 21 Nov 2015 | Regional parks
Until March to counter plan to relegate coastal trail Anybody who’d read the summary of phase-1 submissions would be utterly flummoxed. Of the 140 who made submissions to the Auckland Regional Parks management plan, 101 explicitly supported the concept for a Mahurangi...
by Cimino | 9 Nov 2015 | Regional parks
21-year-old president rocks coastal trail dream Updated 11 November 2015 Her Facebook lit up. It is clear from the rapturous response to the New Zealand Herald article featuring newly elected Mahurangi Action president Tessa Berger, that Facebook is an essential tool...
