I agree fully with new TCC councillor Matt Cowley's opposition to Mayor Stuart Crosby's idea for a new 15,000 seat stadium (‘Stadium Seperation' Weekend Sun, January 10).
Is there any stadium in New Zealand that pays for itself? I very much doubt it.
Mr Crosby says plans for a university, international hotel, conference facility and stadium need to be linked together as a package.

Until the options have been examined, we won't know. Shouldn't Mr Crosby have done this examination before pulling the idea for another stadium wildly out of left field?
If Mr Crosby wants to discuss this proposition publicly, he must take it to the people and shouldn't be expecting them to come to him.

For example, hold public meetings in Welcome Bay, the city, Otumoetai/Matua, Mount Maunganui, Papamoa and Bethlehem etc. Get out of his office and go out and meet the people on their home ground.

All funding must be from private sources and none from ratepayers.
Otherwise, the way Tauranga finances are going ,Tauranga City Council should be renamed Tauranga Borrow Council. I have said elsewhere this should be called Crosby's Folly. In fact it could be Crosby's downfall.

Roger Bailey, Papamoa.