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Now and for the future Kia ora koutou, After a period of intensive community engagement, formal consultation, submissions hearings and careful deliberations, Tauranga City now has a forward-thinking Long-term Plan (LTP) to guide its investment priorities and work programme across the next 10 years. Given the scale of investment proposed and the rates increases required to contribute to spending on new and improved community facilities and infrastructure, this could have been a contentious process. Generally speaking, this wasn’t the case. The Tauranga City Council commissioners met with around 2000 people, attended 34 community meetings and heard about 50 hours of oral submissions on the draft LTP, and most of the feedback we received was both positive and realistic. Let’s face it, no-one likes paying more rates, but they also don’t like substandard or non-existent community facilities, sitting in traffic jams, or having unaffordable property prices because there hasn’t been enough investment in opening up land for housing development. And, those are costs we’re all paying now as a result of years of underinvestment in our city.
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The support from the community has been heartening and I’d particularly like to thank the commercial sector because businesses face a very significant rise in their rates costs, as a result of an increase in the commercial differential rate. Business people generally have recognised that they need to pay a fairer share of the rating burden and developers will also contribute through staged increases in development contributions. We’re all in this together, so now it’s time get on with the job – our city depends on it.
Kia kaha,
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Anne Tolley COMMISSION CHAIR, TAURANGA CITY COUNCIL
