Have Tauranga City council done ‘due diligence' on the many risks to the public inherent in the proposed tidal stairs?

In my experience of attractive ‘free play' areas, there are many more children around than there are carers to oversee them.

For those wanting to paddle, go to the Mount and paddle in the harbour or surfside.

The withdrawal of hundreds of parking spaces from the waterfront - albeit I have never agreed that a waterfront should be littered with cars - will further squeeze the public from visiting the downtown area.

With many hundreds of vehicle building parking spaces being leased out to commercial interests, it is little wonder that the central city is dying. The public are seriously being excluded from the city centre.

Where oh where are the persons with ‘true, affordable, visionary' prospects for Tauranga?

MJ Anderson, Pyes Pa.