Yet again we have to fight the council because of no bylaws to protect the ratepayer, last time was over the old Norfolk hospital site, which the council would have changed the zone so 111 apartments could be build on it and it was only the recession that stopped it from going ahead.
We have won the battle but not the war with that one, now because we have no bylaws to stop a liquor out let opening wherever they like, so the proposed one in Burrow St, will be going ahead unless there is someone who can come up with a very good reason why it should not.
There is no bylaw that covers how many in the city, or how many you have in an area, so although we have a number in the Tauranga south area can not be used to stop this from going ahead. You can see that our Mayor and council have very little concern for the drinking problem that we have in the city, although they might rave on about how they want to stop drinking in some areas, they have no bylaws in place to stop outlets opening any where.
Perhaps it is to hard for them to come up with bylaws that protect the people that put them there, perhaps thought your paper the mayor could tell us what he thinks is the right number of liquor out lets for a city of 110,000 or does he have no idea?
E.K. Mills, Tauranga.