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Unitary Plan: How councillors voted on nine of the most contentious issues

Author
Michael Sergel,
Publish Date
Thu, 18 Aug 2016, 4:30PM
The final version of Auckland's 30 year plan will be released tomorrow (NZH).
The final version of Auckland's 30 year plan will be released tomorrow (NZH).

Unitary Plan: How councillors voted on nine of the most contentious issues

Author
Michael Sergel,
Publish Date
Thu, 18 Aug 2016, 4:30PM

The new blueprint for Auckland's future will be another step closer tomorrow.

Auckland Council will publish the final version of the massive rule book, which will be a regional and district plan for Auckland for the next 30 years.

The plan process started five years ago, during the earliest stages of the Auckland Council formed in 2010.

Auckland Council released a Proposed Unitary Plan in 2013, which was subject to two rounds of submissions by parties affected by any part of the plan.

An independent hearings panel has spent two years considering 1.5 million submission points on the plan, and released its Recommended Unitary Plan last month.

Council planners suggested a raft of changes to that Recommended Unitary Plan last week.

Councillors have spent four days debating each part of the Unitary Plan, deciding whether to go with the Recommended version, the suggestion of council planners or something else.

In cases where councillors have made changes to the Recommended Unitary Plan, submitters have four weeks to appeal those changes through the Environment Court.

The process is happening during the middle of a campaign period for mayoral, council ward and local board elections.

Here is how councillors voted on some key Unitary Plan decisions.

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