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Matamata-Piako District Council settles on 11 7 per cent rate increase

But District Mayor Ash Tanner said the rates are based on reality. “We are playing catch up from last year when we proposed a 6.4 per cent rate increase.” Instead council opted for a zero increase to general rates in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Dominico Zapata/Stuff Matamata-Piako District Mayor Ash Tanner the increase in rates are based on reality. “I wouldn t like to put our ratepayers in a position in years to come facing 20 per cent increases, just to be popular,” Tanner said. “Our challenge is now to deliver on the projects ahead.” Over the next decade, council has approved some major projects for the district, including the Te Aroha Spa resort – its most significant approval at $18.9m –, additional water sources for Morrinsville, kerbside collection, resource recovery centres, revitalising town centres, a mountain bike skills and dog park for Te Aroha and a dog park for Matamata.

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Dumping on the Māori world view

But such intangible cultural effects could not overwhelm the Resource Management Act, the National Policy Statement on freshwater, the Auckland Unitary Plan, Auckland Council s officials and four men sitting in judgment. An independent planning panel for Auckland Council has approved a 60-hectare landfill for a farm and bush site in the Dome Valley just south of Wellsford to take Auckland city s waste for the next 35 years. Supplied Law over lore. The tangible over the intangible. A council expert who recommended the dump be approved later accepted at the hearing that there would be intangible adverse cultural effects, and only mana whenua can speak to mana whenua values .

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