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MINUTES ATTACHMENTS

MINUTES OF A MEETING OF THE ENVIRONMENT, HERITAGE AND URBAN FORM COMMITTEE HELD ON FRIDAY, 13 JULY 2007 AT 1.30 PM

The Chairman opened the meeting at 1.30 pm

That the meeting be adjourned until 1.50pm in order for the Urban Strategy and Governance meeting to be completed.

CARRIED

The meeting reconvened at 2.02 pm.

1. APOLOGIES

   That the apologies of Councillor Sefuiva for non-attendance, Councillor Leighton for illness and Councillor Christian for early departure be accepted.

   CARRIED

2. CONFIRMATION OF MINUTES

   That the minutes of the Environment, Heritage and Urban Form Committee meeting held on Friday, 11 May 2007, be confirmed as a true and correct record.

   CARRIED

3. EXTRAORDINARY BUSINESS

   That an item of extraordinary business regarding the appointment of an independent commissioner to the hearings panel for the Hauraki Gulf Islands District Plan be considered as extraordinary business at agenda item C1 for the reason that should the committee agree to this appointment, the Finance and Corporate Business committee would need to consider unbudgeted expenditure at its next meeting as the panel will commence hearings immediately following the August meeting of the Environment, Heritage and Urban Form Committee.

   CARRIED

4. PUBLIC FORUM

   4.1. HAURAKI GULF ISLANDS DISTRICT PLAN - CHRIS WRAGGE

   That Christopher Wragge, Pirihira Kaio and Lauren Maser be thanked for their presentation regarding the appointment of an independent commissioner to the hearings panel for the Hauraki Gulf Islands District Plan.

   CARRIED

5. REPORTS REQUESTED/PENDING

   That the reports requested/pending list be amended as follows:

   Row	Date	Report Name	Reason
   7		Great Barrier Island Charitable Trust Update	To be deleted as this report is no longer required

   CARRIED

6. PREFERRED CONCEPT OPTION FOR MT MAUNGAWHAU - MT EDEN

   1. That a public consultation process be undertaken on the concept of a visitor centre at Tahaki Reserve West.
   2. That a public consultation process be undertaken on the transport modes of a light weight electric vehicle, which can be used to move people from the visitor centre to the summit, be recommended, the committee noting that while the options of cable or monorail or a personalised transport system are still canvassed in the public consultation, these are not modes that the committee favours.
   3. That further work, including furthering design options, full costing and operational model development, and detailed feasibility analysis leading to the development of a final proposal to be reported back through Council, via the Environment Heritage and Urban Form Committee.

   CARRIED

   Secretarial note:

   The options studies report dated July 2007 was tabled at the meeting. A copy of this report is available with the official minutes.

7. QUARTERLY PROGRESS REPORT ON MAYORAL TASK FORCE ON URBAN DESIGN

   That progress on actions identified by the Mayoral Task Force on Urban Design in Year 2 Quarter 4, as per appendix 1 of the report of the Urban Design Group Manager dated 13 July 2007, be noted.

   CARRIED

8. AUCKLAND HERITAGE FESTIVAL 2007 UPDATE

   Events Organiser, Meredyth Morgan, tabled a list of events included in the Heritage Festival programme.

   That the report of the Events Organiser dated 21 June 2007 be received.

   CARRIED

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9. EXCLUSION OF THE PUBLIC : LOCAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL INFORMATION AND MEETINGS ACT 1987

   That the public be excluded from the following part(s) of the proceedings of this meeting.

   The general subject of the matter to be considered while the public is excluded, the reason for passing this resolution in relation to the matter, and the specific grounds under Section 48(1) of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 for the passing of this resolution follows.

   This resolution is made in reliance on Section 48(1)(a) of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 and the particular interest or interests protected by section 6 or section 7 of that Act which would be prejudiced by the holding of the whole or relevant part of the proceedings of the meeting in public, as follows:

   Item no.	General subject of each matter to be considered	Reason for passing this resolution in relation to each matter	Particular interest(s) protected (where applicable)	Ground(s) under section 48(1) for the passing of this resolution
   C1	Independent commissioner for Hauraki Gulf Islands District Plan	Public conduct of matter would be likely to result in disclosure of information for which good reason to withhold exists under section 7.	To protect the privacy of natural persons, including that of deceased natural persons.   In particular, specific names will be put forward as possible independent commissioners.	S48(1)(a) The public conduct of the part of the meeting would be likely to result in the disclosure of information for which good reason for withholding exists under section 7.

   CARRIED

   There being no further business the Chairman declared the meeting closed at 3:38 pm.