Rotorua mayor Tania Tapsell has recently announced that she plans on reversing the previous plan to sell 10 reserve sites off for housing development.

The Rotorua council will meet to discuss this further on Thursday, where the proposal will be discussed further.

In the leadup to this meeting, Tania Tapsell explained that the aforementioned decision wasn't made with the people of Rotorua in mind and isn't relevant to their concerns anymore.

"This was one of those really bad decisions in politics where the politicians didn't listen to the people. The proposal was originally developed because of the housing shortage we have, but we received over 600 submissions of which the vast majority were against selling reserves." 

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