“Currently, [the] council has out for submission the regional land transport plan. Now, to be notified of this plan and to actually find it requires quite some skill, as it is buried not in the submissions section of the council website, where you d expect to find it, but in the Shape Nelson section with no links from either. You can’t find by going to one place without fossicking around.” As well as being difficult to find, the proposals were based on community feedback which also appeared to suffer from lack of engagement. “The survey that this document based on for the region has a total sample of 490 people. Now I know this was done during Covid in 2020, however, one would think that because you’d done a survey and only got 490 people from the 100,000 people in the bay, that you might actually start trying to engage some more.”
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Traffic lights installed at a new intersection on Waimea Rd are due to be switched on at 10am on Monday “All the feedback I’ve had is that people love it. It’s working well, and people seem to like the downhill slope.” The lights will operate by a sensor, and will not be timed with other lights the way most in the city are. There will be signage placed to remind drivers of the new intersection, and McGurk said there would be new road-markings in place before the lights got switched on. The council encouraged drivers to make sure they were in the correct lane when approaching the intersection.
Friday, 26 February 2021, 1:47 pm
Nelson City Council has agreed to consult with the public
on new bylaws for wastewater and water supply.
Changes
to the existing bylaw reflect requirements of the National
Environmental Standards for Sources of Human Drinking Water.
This also ensures the new bylaw aligns with the Nelson
Tasman Land Development Manual 2019 and the new Tasman
District Council Water Supply Bylaw as far as
practicable.
For water supply, three Water Source
Protection Zones are also proposed. Activities that are
allowed within each zone will be controlled and their nature
will depend on the risk they present to the water supply.
Following a long meeting discussing the cost of the project and potential effects of climate change on its location, councillors voted 11-2 in favour of the proposal, with councillors Pete Rainey and Rachel Sanson voting against it. If fully approved, the $44m library would replace the current Elma Turner Library further down the river on Halifax St, and is expected to have a useful operational life of 100+ years. The new library would consist of a two-storey building with a floor area of approximately 3250m², and would have a “5-star Green star rating – utilising sustainable materials and designed for passive heating/cooling and reduced energy costs.
Gray said the project was a “flagship” project which was “really out of the box”. “These aren t the typical lights we ll see in our city, this is obviously our city’s premier civic space, with the connection to the cathedral, [and] the heritage association of that area.
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A technical illustration of what the catenary lighting will look like on upper Trafalgar St. “The idea with these catenaries is, they re not going to be big spotlights that are hanging over the street, they re actually going to be small and it s going to create a sort of sublime [effect], almost like looking at the stars.”