Mapping the future

By Mary Anne Gill

What is arguably the biggest engagement of its type for the Waipā district gets underway this week for two months.

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Ahu Ake, the Waipā Community Spatial Plan, is a 30-year blueprint for the district mapping out what towns and villages will look like, how residents will move around and what services will be available.

Strategy group manager Kirsty Downey told the council’s Strategic Planning and Policy committee this week that for the plan to be finalised it needs extensive community consultation. She and project manager Vanessa Honore will attend a number of events around Waipā over the next two months including the Tainui Games at Hopuhopu this weekend.

“We have not engaged with the community like this before. We are very excited,” said Downey. There will be 22 events and 12 presentations between this week and March 27 in Cambridge, Te Awamutu, Te Miro, Karāpiro, Kihikihi, Pirongia, Ōhaupō, Rukuhia, Pukeatua and Ngāhinapōuri.

Marae based hui will also take place as will staff drop in sessions, online stakeholder workshops. A briefing with council Customer Service team members has already taken place.

Honore said staff were excited about the spatial plan and had volunteered to attend the community meetings.

Mayor Susan O’Regan, deputy mayor Liz Stolwyk, councillors and community board members will also be at several events.

“To achieve buy in and work alongside the community, we need to make sure this is the future they (residents) want to see for themselves and their children.

“It’s going to be quite an interesting engagement –within their village, their street and withing their day to day commute,” said Honore.

“Now all we need is our community to engage,” said Stolwyk who believed the mix of in person, online, community newspapers and mailbox drops would ensure everyone would be part of the process.

When the road shows finishes, strategy staff will capture and address community feedback into a consultation report. Another consultation process will take place in June and July, a final draft spatial plan produced in August and adopted by council in September.

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