Re-writing the city rules

The city council’s dogs and animals bylaws are being reviewed this year. Photo: Supplied.

The largest re-writing of city bylaws undertaken outside the Auckland super city re-write is about to get underway in Tauranga.

Council staff will be reviewing nine bylaws this year, says TCC team leader strategic and policy planning Melony Atkins.

The Local Government Act requires the council to review each bylaw five years after its initial adoption, and then every ten years after that. If the council fails to review a bylaw within two years of the required review date, the bylaw is revoked.

Tauranga City Council has 15 bylaws.

Work on the council bylaws was placed on hold over 2017, to allow council staff to develop strategies which will guide the review of the city bylaws and a subsequent policy rationalisation.

This has resulted in a specific project developed for a comprehensive bylaw review that will be undertaken over 2018/19.

Bylaws for review include: the 2007 supply of water bylaw, the 2008 trade waste bylaw, the 2013 street use and public places bylaw, the beach bylaw from 2007, the 2013 freedom camping bylaw, and the liquor and vehicle free zones in public places bylaw 2013.

In May, staff are timetabled to begin revising the 2008 dog control bylaw, and the 2008 keeping of animals bylaw.

Starting in October 2018 they move on to the review of the 2012 waste management and minimisation bylaw, the 2008 prostitution bylaw and the 2009 speed limit bylaw.

There will be public consultation periods. Stakeholders are already in consultation on the supply of water and trade waste bylaws and there will be consultation with the public in April, says Melony.

Most of the review will be managed through the Community and Culture Committee which has the role of ensuring Tauranga's community assets and spaces are enjoyed by everyone.

'This work will be split into two broad conversations with council and the public; the use of public spaces, improving amenity and reducing nuisance – and dogs and other animals and their impact on people and the environment,” says Melony.

The public space conversation is expected to begin in March. The second conversation with the public over dogs and animals will begin in May.

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3 comments

Beggars

Posted on 24-01-2018 14:33 | By Sandra77

Great - hopefully they can get these beggars off our streets -I am sick of walking through Greerton and looking at these people - who oddly enough all seem to share the same signage, what a joke! get rid of them -and I don't care where they go they should not be allowed to beg on our streets - most of them probably receive money form the Government anyway!


Writing city rules?

Posted on 24-01-2018 14:40 | By MISS ADVENTURE

Now isnt that the truth of it. But that is nothing new, that has been happening and getting worse for decades.


City Planning

Posted on 24-01-2018 17:33 | By socantor01

Why can't this be done by the councilors themselves? Let them earn all that money they are paid for a part-time job.


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