Central area district plan
From City Scene, published on 21 June 2009
Hauraki Gulf Marine Park Act 2000
Auckland City Council has prepared the following plan
modification to the operative central area district plan under the Resource
Management Act 1991.
Proposed plan modification 34 seeks changes to the
operative central area district plan to ensure adequate recognition is given to
the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park Act 2000 and the council's responsibility to have
regard to it when considering resource consent applications for the Hauraki
Gulf, its islands, and catchments.
Places to view proposal
The proposed plan modification and background information may be
viewed online free of
charge or
during business hours at:
- City Planning, level 11, Civic Administration Building, 1
Greys Avenue
- the reference section of the Central City Library, 44-46
Lorne Street, central city.
Please phone the duty planner, central area
planning if you have any questions about the proposal. Any person may make a
submission on the proposal.
Making a submission
Your submission must be in the format outlined in the
Resource Management Act 1991. You can
print submission forms that follow this
format or get them from the places
listed above and all community libraries.
You must say in your submission whether or not you wish to
be heard on your submission.
You can lodge your submissions
- by post to Auckland City Council, Private Bag 92516
Wellesley Street, Auckland 1141 (attn: manager, City Planning)
- online (conditions
apply, see this site).
- at level 11 of the Civic Administration Building, 1 Greys
Avenue, central city.
Closing date for submissions
20 July 2009.
Taking part
(taken from the Resource Management
Act 1991)
The process for public participation in the consideration
of a proposed plan modification under the Act is as follows.
- After the closing date for submissions, the council must
prepare a summary of the submissions and this summary must be publicly notified;
and
- There must be an opportunity to make further submissions
in support of, or in opposition to, the submissions already made; and
- If a person making a submission asks to be heard in
support of his or her submission, a hearing must be held; and
- The council must give its decision on the proposal
(including its reasons for accepting or rejecting submissions); and
- Any person who has made a submission has the right to
appeal the decision on the proposed plan modification to the Environment Court.
