Rates Review Submissions
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Tab 401: Scott Walsh 825 Tab 401: Scott Walsh 826 Tab 402: Serena Bermingham 827 Tab 403: Serena Dawson Review of Buller District Council's Rates Policy SurveyMonkey #79 COMPLETE Collector: Web Link 1 (Web Link) Started: Monday, February 15, 2021 9:55:06 AM Last Modified: Monday, February 15, 2021 10:01:43 AM Time Spent: 00:06:36 IP Address: 49.224.89.172 Page 1 Q1 CONTACT DETAILS: required so Council can respond to your submission :) Name Serena dawson Address 2338 State highway 65 maruia City/Town Buller Email Address [email protected] Phone Number 0274847377 Q2 Yes Would you like to attend the Rates Review Hearing on Wednesday 10 March 2021 and speak to Councillors, adding further details to your written submission? Q3 No Do you support the rates policy being proposed? Q4 Agree Do you AGREE or DISAGREE on land value rating being used? Q5 Agree Do you AGREE or DISAGREE that comparable properties should pay comparable rates? Q6 Disagree Do you AGREE or DISAGREE that rates are to be redistributed? 1 / 2 828 Tab 403: Serena Dawson Review of Buller District Council's Rates Policy SurveyMonkey Q7 Agree Do you AGREE or DISAGREE that you should pay LESS rates? Q8 Disagree Do you AGREE or DISAGREE that you should pay MORE rates? Q9 Any other feedback?Do you have any further comments to make on Council's proposed rates policy? I find it astounding the an audit of rating database had not been done beforehand. 2 / 2 829 Tab 404: Shanan Busch 830 Tab 405: Shaun Connolly Review of Buller District Council's Rates Policy SurveyMonkey #109 COMPLETE Collector: Web Link 1 (Web Link) Started: Wednesday, February 17, 2021 11:02:49 AM Last Modified: Thursday, February 18, 2021 10:41:30 AM Time Spent: 23:38:40 IP Address: 222.152.48.149 Page 1 Q1 CONTACT DETAILS: required so Council can respond to your submission :) Name Shaun Connolly Address 212 Utopia Road City/Town Westport Email Address [email protected] Q2 No Would you like to attend the Rates Review Hearing on Wednesday 10 March 2021 and speak to Councillors, adding further details to your written submission? Q3 No Do you support the rates policy being proposed? Q4 Agree Do you AGREE or DISAGREE on land value rating being used? Q5 Agree Do you AGREE or DISAGREE that comparable properties should pay comparable rates? Q6 Agree Do you AGREE or DISAGREE that rates are to be redistributed? 1 / 2 831 Tab 405: Shaun Connolly Review of Buller District Council's Rates Policy SurveyMonkey Q7 Disagree Do you AGREE or DISAGREE that you should pay LESS rates? Q8 Disagree Do you AGREE or DISAGREE that you should pay MORE rates? Q9 Any other feedback?Do you have any further comments to make on Council's proposed rates policy? We agree with parts of the proposed rates review, that we should be rated on land value, and that there needs to be less categories, however we believe there needs to be a “rural residential” (or similar) category for those who live in rurally zoned areas but have less than 10ha of land. We are currently rated as a rural small holding 161. Our property is zoned rural according to the Buller District Plan, but under the rates proposal is going to be rated as residential. On our rural road, there is no water, no wastewater, no fibre, and no footpaths. We should not be rated as a residential property, if we are not treated like a residential property by any other measure. We have had to invest significantly in developing our land so that we can live there, due to a lack of available services. While we accept that our rates may need to increase, a major increase (we are looking at a ~400% increase) and treating our property as residential, is not fair to rural lifestyle blocks like ours. We believe that a “rural residential” category should be included that has a differential factor of say 0.5-0.7, compared to a rural factor of 0.25 and a residential factor of 1. This would make the proposed rates review much fairer. 2 / 2 832 Tab 406: Shayne Barry Review of Buller District Council's Rates Policy SurveyMonkey #13 COMPLETE Collector: Web Link 1 (Web Link) Started: Friday, January 22, 2021 9:20:23 AM Last Modified: Friday, January 22, 2021 9:29:47 AM Time Spent: 00:09:24 IP Address: 203.118.130.176 Page 1 Q1 CONTACT DETAILS: required so Council can respond to your submission :) Name Shayne Barry Address 13 Cook Street City/Town Westport Email Address [email protected] Q2 No Would you like to attend the Rates Review Hearing on Wednesday 10 March 2021 and speak to Councillors, adding further details to your written submission? Q3 Yes Do you support the rates policy being proposed? Q4 Agree Do you AGREE or DISAGREE on land value rating being used? Q5 Agree Do you AGREE or DISAGREE that comparable properties should pay comparable rates? Q6 Agree Do you AGREE or DISAGREE that rates are to be redistributed? Q7 Disagree Do you AGREE or DISAGREE that you should pay LESS rates? 1 / 2 833 Tab 406: Shayne Barry Review of Buller District Council's Rates Policy SurveyMonkey Q8 Disagree Do you AGREE or DISAGREE that you should pay MORE rates? Q9 Any other feedback?Do you have any further comments to make on Council's proposed rates policy? I do not agree or disagree with a change in my rates as I believe rates should be apportioned fairly and I do not believe the archaic system that is currently in place does this. I agree to pay a fair proportion of the rates collected. I do believe that rural rates in many areas have been significantly lower than they should be and thus I support the council's changes. 2 / 2 834 Tab 407: Shelley Jope Review of Buller District Council's Rates Policy SurveyMonkey #84 COMPLETE Collector: Web Link 1 (Web Link) Started: Monday, February 15, 2021 8:00:57 PM Last Modified: Monday, February 15, 2021 8:07:37 PM Time Spent: 00:06:40 IP Address: 161.29.237.44 Page 1 Q1 CONTACT DETAILS: required so Council can respond to your submission :) Name Shelley Jope Address 100 McKenna Road Address 2 Rd2 City/Town WESTPORT Email Address [email protected] Phone Number +64273835408 Q2 No Would you like to attend the Rates Review Hearing on Wednesday 10 March 2021 and speak to Councillors, adding further details to your written submission? Q3 Yes Do you support the rates policy being proposed? Q4 Agree Do you AGREE or DISAGREE on land value rating being used? Q5 Agree Do you AGREE or DISAGREE that comparable properties should pay comparable rates? Q6 Agree Do you AGREE or DISAGREE that rates are to be redistributed? 1 / 2 835 Tab 407: Shelley Jope Review of Buller District Council's Rates Policy SurveyMonkey Q7 Disagree Do you AGREE or DISAGREE that you should pay LESS rates? Q8 Disagree Do you AGREE or DISAGREE that you should pay MORE rates? Q9 Any other feedback?Do you have any further comments to make on Council's proposed rates policy? There needs to be a differential for rural properties. I do not agree with being under a general "residential" catergory when I have a gravel road, no street lighting, no footpaths, no fibre network, no water or average connection and pay extra for postage as a rural property according to NZ Post. Rural addresses should be acknowledged as that - not simply residential - and the rates should reflect that. 2 / 2 836 Tab 408: Shelley Taylor Review of Buller District Council's Rates Policy SurveyMonkey #36 COMPLETE Collector: Web Link 1 (Web Link) Started: Monday, February 01, 2021 9:29:19 PM Last Modified: Monday, February 01, 2021 9:45:47 PM Time Spent: 00:16:27 IP Address: 202.44.63.30 Page 1 Q1 CONTACT DETAILS: required so Council can respond to your submission :) Name Shelley Taylor Address 8193B State Highway 6 City/Town Westport Email Address [email protected] Phone Number 037896523 Q2 No Would you like to attend the Rates Review Hearing on Wednesday 10 March 2021 and speak to Councillors, adding further details to your written submission? Q3 No Do you support the rates policy being proposed? Q4 Disagree Do you AGREE or DISAGREE on land value rating being used? Q5 Disagree Do you AGREE or DISAGREE that comparable properties should pay comparable rates? Q6 Disagree Do you AGREE or DISAGREE that rates are to be redistributed? Q7 Agree Do you AGREE or DISAGREE that you should pay LESS rates? 1 / 2 837 Tab 408: Shelley Taylor Review of Buller District Council's Rates Policy SurveyMonkey Q8 Disagree Do you AGREE or DISAGREE that you should pay MORE rates? Q9 Any other feedback?Do you have any further comments to make on Council's proposed rates policy? Changing rural small holdings less than 10 hectares to residential zoning does not reflect that rural properties have to maintain their own water supplies unlike town supplied properties. It looks like the rural residents are being asked to pay extra money for services we don't have easy access to. For example the Punakaiki resident would not utilise ammenties in Westport as regularly as someone in town, and the cost of travelling to those ammenities and travel time limits people's ability to be high users. This is not an equal playing field and can not be seen as comparable properties.