by Cimino | 13 Apr 2018 | Warkworth
In an ideal world, everybody interested would have time to read the Warkworth Structure Plan consultation documents. But the tranche just issued runs to a total of 623 topic pages and maps. Between the first call for feedbackon 6 April and the 23 April deadline, that...
by Cimino | 24 Mar 2018 | Dredging, Local, Local board, Warkworth
At least Ōrewa is equally inconvenient for all Rodney residents. In its case for twin local board areas, the Mahurangi Magazine pointed out: So disparate are the areas, that meetings of the Rodney Local Board are held in Ōrewa, which is in neither half. Now,...
by Cimino | 11 Mar 2018 | Transport and climate action, Warkworth
Most Warkworthians are unhappy that their town is now a satellite growth centre. Had a concerted campaign been waged against it, and unlimited funds spent fighting it, Auckland Council may have been forced to rethink. But that would not have stopped the Mahurangi...
by Cimino | 1 Dec 2017 | Local board, Regional governance, Regional parks
Region survives serial secessionism Serial attempts to turn the clock back six decades have failed, and deservedly. For without regional governance, Aucklanders would be much the poorer, for example, 27 sublime regional parks poorer. It would also lack a cohesive...
by Cimino | 6 Oct 2017 | Fauna, Sedimentation, Warkworth, Warkworth Town Hall Talk, Weirs
Mahurangi was always going to need all the help it could get. When, in 2004, the then Auckland Regional Council announced a $3 million, 5-year kickstart to address the harbour’s elevated sediment accumulation rate, Mahurangi Action was advised, regarding a similar...
by Cimino | 8 Sep 2017 | Warkworth, Warkworth Town Hall Talk
Warkworth’s population of 4000 is estimated to reach 27 000 in the next 30 years. Without relentless optimism, on the strength of international experience Warkworth-as-a-satellite-growth-centre is a recipe for a sprawling, Geography of Nowhere town, totally dominated...
