Regarding the health of downtown Tauranga. Until people are allowed to live there it will remain dead. Shop owners drive to work, open their business and drive back to the suburbs at night. There should be apartments above the shops where people can live and work nearby.

Apartments would provide somewhere for students to live while attending Bay of Plenty Polytechnic.

There is a need to encourage more pedestrians both day and night to patronise the downtown businesses.

V Brazier, Tauranga City.