It strikes me that before any developer is allowed to proceed with a development they should show how they intend to supply and pay for services. The southern pipeline would not be needed if it were not for new developments, so surely it follows that the developers should be footing the bill for such a pipeline and not the ratepayers.
The suggestion that raw untreated sewage should be pumped halfway across a densely-populated residential area that is at high risk of earthquakes is beyond belief.
Treat it on site, make the developers pay. Simple as that.
Any elected member or employee of TCC who think otherwise needs a check up from the neck up.
The ratepayers have had enough, I have just got my new rates bill, thanks guys, you have succeeded making Tauranga a place that is just too expensive to live in. Before this latest rise Tauranga was named the third most unaffordable place to live in the world.
Time for a change.
Chris Laycock, Otumoetai
[but not for much longer]