Rescinding Motion To Be In Play

 

As noted last week the Auckland Development Committee resolved by 9-8 in a closed session to take the position that Port of Auckland further reclamation would be a Discretionary Activity rather than Non Complying as previous.

 

I was aware that Councillor Chris Darby was seeking a Rescinding Motion in an extraordinary Auckland Development Committee to rescind that previous resolution thus revert reclamation back to a Non Complying Activity.

I have just been made aware Councillor Darby has the apparent numbers to force Committee Chair Deputy Mayor Penny Hulse to reconvene the Committee and allow the Committee to work its way through the Rescinding Motion.

Update: That extraordinary Auckland Development Committee is to meet on the 26th February at Town Hall. As the matter concerns mediation for the Auckland Unitary Plan Hearings Panel I am to assume it will be held behind closed doors. If it were to be held in the open then precedent is set for all other Committee meetings on Council’s UP Mediation position would need to be held in the open as well. 

 

I truly wonder if Darby has any idea that all he is doing is setting the Council on an indefensible path (if the words of Planning Manager Ms Penny Pirrit are anything to go by) which could lead to Council being savaged in the Hearings again by the Unitary Plan panel. It also means Council is now prone to being taken to the Environment Court as well further down the track.

 

It seems Darby (and others) are content in being the bureaucrats and micro managing the City rather than being Councillors carrying out Governance!

It reeks of politicking and the victims will end up being the ratepayer if Council gets dragged before the Environment Court, and/or South Auckland where the port and her operations have the biggest effect (well over $380m (which covers just part of the general/bulk trade)).

My latest views are known here: I WONDER IF COUNCILLOR DARBY IS AWARE OF THE RISKS?