Hearing Panel Interests Register Cindy Robinson – Chair
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Draft Waimakariri Residential Red Zone Recovery Plan – Hearing Panel Interests Register Cindy Robinson – Chair Barrister and Independent Resource Management Commissioner (Chair endorsed) Past Partner at Duncan Cotterill Lawyers (2000-2009) I have provided two discrete legal opinions and facilitated a meeting for Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA) in 2013. I have no ongoing instructions in relation to those or any other matters and they did not relate to the Waimakariri Residential Red Zone Recovery Plan. I have been nominated by CERA on occasion for appointment by Christchurch City Council as an Independent Hearings Commissioner as part of a joint panel (CERA, Ngāi Tahu and Christchurch City Council) to hear and decide resource consents in Christchurch Central City. Waimakariri District Council has in the past appointed me as an Independent Hearings Commissioner to hear and decide plan change applications in relation to Silverstream, Ruby Views, Clampett Investments Limited (a Kaiapoi business development) and currently in relation to the construction of Kaiapoi Arterial Road. I have also been appointed by Environment Canterbury on occasion as an Independent Hearings Commissioner and I have a current appointment to jointly hear and decide resource consent applications for Kaiapoi Arterial Road. I am currently instructed as Independent Legal Counsel by the Christchurch Replacement District Plan Independent Hearings Panel. I am not aware of any other individual or organisations that are known to me that are likely to make comments on the Draft Waimakariri Residential Red Zone Recovery Plan. In the event that I have any personal or business association with any person making written comments on the plan that become known to me during the hearing I will disclose those relationships at the hearing. Tim Vial Independent Resource Management Commissioner. Principal planner with Kāi Tahu ki Otago Ltd a Regional Environmental Consultancy that is owned by Te Rūnanga o Moeraki, Kāti Huirapa Rūnaka ki Puketeraki, Te Rūnanga o Ōtākou, and Hokonui Rūnanga. I whakapapa to the Ngāi Tahu hapū of Ngāi te Ruahikihiki and I affiliate to Te Rūnanga o Ōtākou. I was nominated by Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu and Te Ngāi Tūāhuriri Rūnanga for this Hearing Panel. I confirm that I have had no engagement with Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu and Te Ngāi Tūāhuriri Rūnanga on the Draft Waimakariri Residential Red Zone Recovery Plan. I have undertaken work for Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu on the Natural Hazards and Residential Proposals of the Proposed Christchurch Replacement District Plan. I have no ongoing instructions in relation to this matter. I am not aware of any other individual or organisations that are known to me that are likely to make comments on the Draft Waimakariri Residential Red Zone Recovery Plan. In the event that I have any personal or business association with any person making written comments on the plan that become known to me during the hearing I will disclose those relationships at the hearing. Mayor David Ayers I have been Mayor of the Waimakariri District since the Local Government elections of October 2010. Since then I have been to countless Council, public and other meetings that have dealt with earthquake recovery matters both before and after the Red Zoning announcements of mid-2011. I was first elected to Rangiora Borough Council in 1983. In 1986 this Council amalgamated with the surrounding Rangiora District. This new body included The Pines and Kairaki in its area. From 1989 to 2001 and from 2007 to 2010, prior to being elected Mayor, I was a member of the Waimakariri District Council which included all of what was to become the Waimakariri Residential Red Zones in its area. I was a member of the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Commission from October 2010 to the formation of CERA. I chaired the Waimakariri District Council’s Earthquake Recovery Committee (which included the entire Council plus the chair of the Kaiapoi Community Board) throughout its life, 2010-2013. The Council has four standing committees (Audit, Resource Management and Regulation, Utilities and Roading, and Community Recreation. I am ex officio on all four and I do attend. I have attended most Kaiapoi Community Board meetings since October 2010 and, although not a member of the Board, I have probably spoken on a recovery matters a few times in post-meeting workshops. I was a member of the Recovery Strategy Advisory Committee (RSAC) of CERA throughout its life until it was subsumed into the Greater Christchurch Urban Development Strategy Implementation Committee (UDSIC) in 2015. Since then, UDSIC has continued to work on recovery matters. I was a member of the Government’s Advisory Board for the Transition (ABT) in 2014-2015. Both the RSAC and ABT provided advice to the Minister for Earthquake Recovery on recovery matters. I am a member of the Kaiapoi Riverbanks Steering Group which is dealing with earthquake recovery in areas adjacent to the Kaiapoi Residential Red Zones. I have chaired the Waimakariri Future Use of the Red Zones (FURZ) Steering Group from September 2014 to the present. Since appointment to the Hearing Panel, I have refrained from voting on substantive matters relating to the Preliminary Draft Waimakariri Residential Red Zone Recovery Plan or spoken at meetings in a way that could be seen as pushing an ultimate decision in any particular direction. This has mainly applied to FURZ and Council meetings. I know many of the submitters personally, some from before I became Mayor. I have no personal pecuniary interest in the outcome of the hearing. Councillor Neville Atkinson. I have been a Waimakariri District Councillor since the Local Government Elections of 2007. I have also served on the Kaiapoi Community Board as a member since 2004. I am currently employed by Kaiapoi Community Care & Employment Trust. Since becoming an elected member of local government I have been to countless Council, Community Board, public and other meetings that have dealt with earthquake recovery matters both before and after the Red Zoning announcements of mid-2011. The Council has four standing committees (Audit, Resource Management and Regulation, Utilities and Roading, and Community Recreation). I am a voting member of the Audit and Resource Management Committees, also holding the position of Chair of Audit Committee from May 2015 to October 2016. As a District Councillor I hold the Economic Development and Rangiora/Kaiapoi Town Centres portfolios. I was a member of the Waimakariri District Council’s Earthquake Recovery Committee (which included the entire Council plus the chair of the Kaiapoi Community Board) throughout its life, 2010- 2013. I have attended all but a few Kaiapoi Community Board meetings since becoming elected in 2004 and have spoken on earthquake recovery matters. I am a Waimakariri District Council appointed member of the Greater Christchurch Urban Development Strategy Implementation Committee (UDSIC). UDSIC continue to work on recovery matters. I was a member of the Recovery Strategy Advisory Committee of CERA throughout its life until it was subsumed into the UDSIC. I am the Chair of the Kaiapoi Riverbanks Steering Group which is dealing with earthquake recovery in areas adjacent to the Kaiapoi Residential Red Zones. The work undertaken by this steering group does not cover any of the Kaiapoi Residential Red Zones. I am a member of the Waimakariri Future Use of the Red Zones (FURZ) Steering Group from September 2014 to the present. I am a Council appointed member of the Waimakariri District Council Hearings Committees, Chief Executive Review Committee, Code of Conduct Committee and District Licencing Committee. I am a Council appointed Trustee to the Te Kohaka O Tuhaitara Trust until 30 November 2016 and the Local Economic Development Advocacy Group. I am Kaiapoi Community Board appointed liaison person for the Northern Bulldogs Rugby League Club, Kaiapoi River Rehabilitation Working Party and the Christchurch International Airport Liaison Group. I am a former member of the Kaiapoi Coast Guard. Since my appointment to the Hearing Panel, I have refrained from voting on substantive matters relating to the Preliminary Draft Waimakariri Residential Red Zone Recovery Plan or spoken at meetings in a way that could be seen as pushing an ultimate decision in any particular direction. This has applied to my involvement with all of the above, but in particular FURZ, Council, Kaiapoi Community Board and Kaiapoi Riverbanks Steering Group meetings. I have no personal pecuniary interest in the outcome of the hearing. In the event that I have any personal or business association with any person making written comments on the plan that become known to me during the hearing I will disclose those relationships at the hearing. .