Infrastructure and Environment Committee meeting update
Speed Management Planning 2023 Deliberations Report
The committee noted the considerable community feedback arising from the consultation process and recommends the following approach:
- Speed limits are reduced to 30km around urban and rural schools as recommended for setting variable speed limits, taking into consideration main entrances to the school, and advice from each school regarding their use of these entrances.
- Any speed limit changes in the CBD be deferred until relevant decision-making discussions have been finalised regarding the pending Revitalisation Plan for the Inner City.
- The speed limits in the remaining District remain as they are pending further consideration of the new Government’s transport policies.
Officers were authorised to prepare a final draft Territorial Authority Speed Management Plan and bring it back to the Committee for final approval, before it is submitted to the Director of Land Transport for certification in March 2024.
View the report relating to this matter (page 13) HERE on Council’s website.
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Ngā Wai Ariki o Rotorua Lakes Council Draft Geothermal System Management Plan (GSMP)
Bay of Plenty Regional Council has led development of the draft Rotorua Geothermal System Management Plan (GSMP), alongside tangata whenua, Rotorua Lakes Council and key stakeholders such as resource consent holders.
The GSMP has been developed as a ‘care plan’ – a holistic and integrated approach to the sustainable management of the system and includes a vision for the Rotorua Geothermal System, principles for how we will behave and a broad management approach.
Once approved, the GSMP will be considered in consent applications but will not override the Operative Regional Plan with a formal regional plan change still needed.
A technical presentation will be held on 20 November with feedback closing on 8 December 2023. A revised SMP will be adopted in March 2024 - for further information, to view the draft GSMP and have your say, visit Draft Rotorua Geothermal System Management Plan | Participate BOPRC
View the presentation slides relating to this matter HERE on Council’s website.
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Staff Reports: Waste Management Services
Rotorua Lakes Council’s Waste Management and Minimisation Plan 2022 – 2028 summarises council’s objectives, policies and targets for waste management and minimisation and outlines the tools and actions to deliver the goals and achieve the targets. It will be reviewed in 2026 to set new goals.
The presentation updated elected members on what waste minimisation behaviour activities have been undertaken and what are in the pipeline.
It also outlined proposed new legislation to replace the Waste Management Act and the Litter Act with the intention for the bill to be introduced by early 2024 and enacted by 2025. It’s anticipated it will specify central government’s main responsibilities and outline minimum obligation for local government.
View the report relating to this matter HERE on Council’s website.
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Confidential items to be released:
The previously Public Excluded Infrastructure and Environment Committee Meeting 4 October 2023 minutes have been released.
The Public Excluded report on Crown Infrastructure Partners Stormwater Conveyance Interim Loan Approval has been deferred until after further discussion in the upcoming Long-Term Plan workshops around Council’s priorities in this area.
View the report relating to this matter (page 38) HERE on Council’s website.
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View the full public meeting agenda at this link on Council’s website: www.rotorualakescouncil.nz/our-council/meetings/agendas-and-minutes (rotorualakescouncil.nz)
Today’s meeting was livestreamed and you can watch the full recording of the meeting via the following link on Council’s YouTube channel: Infrastructure and Environment Committee - 1 November 2023 - YouTube