Do the Tauranga City Council realise how strongly people in this area feel about the felling of trees and re-organisation (in other words destruction) of parks and gardens?
I have been wondering about the plans the council has that involve the changes taking place, and also about the costs involved.
In a story in The Sun last Friday, September 6, Tauranga City Council parks co-ordinator Pete Mouldey says: 'We are slowly working towards an ideal layout according to the reserve's concept plan...”
Ideal layout in whose eyes?
I would like to know if any of the ratepayers, those voters who were involved in the last council elections, were ever made aware of this 'ideal layout”, and, more importantly, the 'reserve's concept plan”.
Surely views and opinions of residents, the people who live in these affected areas, should be taken into account before felling beautiful old trees because of some 'concept plan”.
The trees have been growing far longer than any recent 'ideal layouts” have been in existence.

Isabel Ashmore, Ohauiti.