by Cimino | 18 Aug 2009 | Regional parks
Management plan review time for re-reading wedding bans Weddings weren’t expected to be the subject of a Mahurangi Action Plan workshop. Nor did the Mahurangi Magazine expect to be posting wedding banns anytime soon. Nevertheless, the prospect of reversing the rule...
by Boffa Miskell | 17 Aug 2009 | Action plan planning
Introduction – executive summary This report follows the meeting of the Mahurangi Action Plan planning workshop on 10 August 2009. It scopes the issues, provides an outline for the vision statement and discusses the information that may be needed for the technical...
by Cimino | 5 Aug 2009 | Four waters
Draft master plan and the mother of master plans New regional governance arrangements will likely see Watercare Services responsible for Mahurangi sewerage. Understandably, Rodney District Council’s infrastructure planners are keen to consolidate their work prior to...
by Cimino | 22 Jul 2009 | Action plan planning
The first was always going to be the most fraught. This in spite of the objective of the workshops being very simple: To put the plan in the Mahurangi Action Plan, collaboratively. The plan itself is straightforward, if the premise is accepted that it should...
by Cimino | 16 Jul 2009 | Regional governance
It’s always a challenge, to make a submission stand out. Particularly when committee members are facing the last batch of submitters for the week, on the Auckland governance legislation. Late of a Friday afternoon, they could be excused if their minds were beginning...
by Cimino | 9 Jul 2009 | Action plan planning
Planting 17 and 18 July 1pm–3pm, food and arts activities 3pm–4pm Location 17 Edwards Road, via Hepburn Creek Road Planning 20 July 5.30pm for 6pm–8pm Venue Old Masonic Hall, Baxter Street, Warkworth When the Mahurangi Action Plan was initiated, in 2004, it wasn’t so...
by Mahurangi Action | 26 Jun 2009 | Regional governance
As lodged today General Mahurangi Action embraces this historic opportunity to devise better governance arrangements for the Auckland region. The organisation was formed in 1974, for the enjoyment and protection of the Mahurangi catchment; in 1977 it revived the...
by Cimino | 18 Jun 2009 | Regional governance
Auckland governance legislation select committee submissions closed Friday 26 June By this time next year, there will be a Mahurangi plan. Mahurangi Action founding chairman John Male made the first bid for a Mahurangi plan in 1975, pitched at the old Rodney County...
by Cimino | 13 Jun 2009 | Pioneering
Unintentionally, it had bordered on false advertising. To offer to prospective planters the prospect of discussing their interest in indigenous plants with one of Aotearoa’s most interesting tree scientists, Dr David Bergin. However the volunteer who was bursting with...
by Cimino | 2 Jun 2009 | Open-ground, Regatta 2060
It presumably was not the sentiment Rod Oram had intended to invoke in his audience: This is all quite depressing! Oram had begun his Urban Design and Auckland Governance talk by quoting an undisclosed inside source claiming cabinet to have been in disarray over the...
