PITOPITO KŌRERO/News I Ōtaki Today, Haratua May 2021
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Twelve buildings ‘earthquake prone’
COVID JAB: Ocean View Residential Care resident Mae Carson, 97, holds visiting dog Lizzie as she receives her Covid-19 vaccination from Ōtaki Medical Centre nurse manager Karenanne Thomas.
Covid jabs for rest home residents Ocean View residents were some of the first in the town to receive Covid-19 vaccinations when Ōtaki Medical Centre nurse manager Karenanne Thomas and nurse Mahara Haitana visited the rest home residents on May 4. All but one of the residents agreed to the vaccinations. A second dose of the Pfizer vaccine will be given after three weeks. Those happy to receive the vaccine included Ocean View’s oldest resident, Mae Carson, who will be 98 later this month. A former nurse herself, she said she was confident it was “the right thing to do”. Ōtaki Medical Centre said the roll-out of vaccines for the general population in Ōtaki would be the same as for the rest of New Zealand. They had no word as to when that would happen.
Twelve buildings in the Ōtaki district are among 22 on the Kāpiti Coast that have been listed in an updated national earthquake building register. Three of the 12 are owned by Kāpiti Coast District Council: the Ōtaki Museum building, the beach pavilion and the Memorial Hall. In 2018 the council agreed to remediate all its higher use buildings within eight years – the museum building and the beach pavilion were to be looked at later. The other nine buildings in Ōtaki are owned privately, or owned through a trust or other entity (see list below right). None of them is considered to require urgent action. The owners have 15 years (until 2033/34) to provide further seismic assessment evidence or to undertake remediation work. KCDC completed its assessment of buildings in November 2018 and at the time identified 28 buildings of concern on the Kāpiti Coast. The owners had 12 months to provide evidence to the contrary, before a formal notice was issued under the Building Act. As of April 2021, that number had come down to 22, with 12 in Ōtaki.
A national system for managing earthquake-prone buildings in New Zealand came into effect in 2017. Councils were tasked then with determining which buildings in their districts were earthquake prone using a set methodology. A building, or part of a building, is technically considered earthquake prone “if it will have its ultimate capacity exceeded in a moderate earthquake, and if it were to collapse, would be likely to cause harm to people or property”. Earthquakeprone buildings aren’t automatically classified as dangerous buildings under the Building Act, but must have a notice on the outside to alert visitors to the risk. Earthquake-prone Ōtaki buildings: • Beach Pavilion, Marine Parade • Memorial Hall, Main St • Ōtaki Museum, Main St • All Saints’ Church, Te Rauparaha St • Senior Citizens Hall, Rangatira St • 1 Main St (Asian Takeaways) • 14 and 16 Titoki St • 84 Aotaki St • 9 Rimu St • Te Horo Hall, School Rd • 3-11 Te Horo Beach Rd • 701 SH1, Te Horo (Makahuri)
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