NEWSLETTER LAKE ROTOITI SUMMER COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC. 2012/13 CHAIRPERSON’S REPORT DECEMBER 2012 AGM: The Annual General Meeting of our Association will be SEWERAGE: I refer you to Phill Thomass’s article in respect of held on Wednesday, 2nd January 2013 at the Pikiao Rugby League the current RDC thinking on proposed installation of sewerage Clubrooms, Takinga Street, Mourea at 10 am. It is important to us reticulation to Eastern Rotoiti and Rotoma. Our Association was that all residents attend this meeting and put forward their views. party to the Environment Court Hearing, along with Tamatea Street Light refreshments will be served following the meeting. We look Ratepayers Association and we are keenly watching developments. forward to seeing you there! It is heartening to know that pricing has fi nally been acknowledged as a key factor for Eastern Rotoiti residents. The initial proposed RATES: The RDC 2012-2022 Long Term plan indicates a move costings for our residents affected by this schme have always been from the present rating system with differentials (rural residential of great concern to us. properties are currently 85%) to a system with no differentials. Jim Stanton of our Committee and Brentleigh Bond, Chair of the JETTIES: In a recent draft of its ‘Public Lake Structures Policy’, Lakes Community Board, have consistently advocated for rural RDC has signalled its desire to reduce the total number of private communities and it is important for us to realise that should the lake structures (jetties, boatsheds, moorings etc.) in some of the differential be removed in one jump this could be expected to District’s lakes. The policy indicates that at the end of the present add approximately 19.5% (or $400 per property...inc GST....with a ten (10) year ‘Right to Occupy’ period, an assessment will be medium capital value of $360,000) to the rates levied by RDC in completed on the practicalities of reducing the total number of the present 2012/13 year. Higher value properties can expect to pay private lake structures in the general area by encouraging private considerably more. lake structure owners to consider shared use of facilities. HILARY PRIOR (CHAIRPERSON) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE LAKE ROTOITI COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC. To be held at Pikiao Rugby League Clubrooms, Takinga street, Mourea 10 am Wednesday 2nd January 2012 Minutes of the 2012 AGM together with Financial Reports can be viewed at our website www. rotoiti.co.nz LRCA WEBSITE: www.rotoiti.co.nz Proposed Rotorua WATER QUALITY AND TRANSFERABLE district plan DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS (TDRS) NOTIFIED 31 OCTOBER 2012 Ð 2 ¥36 WESTERN BAY OF PLENTY DISTRICT 1 0 2 Kaituna River n a l Mangorewa River P t c i r t Mamaku Ð s ¥36 Ð i Lagoon ¥33 Dudley ENHANCING WATER QUALITY D n o o g HOW THE PROPOSED DISTRICT PLAN HELPS TO a a L R oy ENHANCE THE WATER QUALITY OF OUR LAKES, u RIVERS AND STREAMSr Lake o Rotoehu t Hamurana Stream Lake Rotoiti o SP1 Shaping Ð SP2 R 5 oa ¥ Lake Rotorua Ð ar Rotorua ¥30 Kah Lake d Waiteti Stream rt Rotoma a e w Lake Ste Ngongotaha Stream Rotokawau s o Te Waerenga Ð Waingaehe Proposed Rotorua District Plan 2012 Plan District Rotorua Proposed 5 ¥ 2012 Plan District Rotorua Proposed Stream Lake S Ð cott ¥36 Utuhina Ð Rotokawa D Stream ¥30 ou glas n Sunnex o Ð s 30A Lake k ¥ c ¥ a Okataina Kilometres J Ð Central ¥5 Ð ¥30 Ta r a w e ra R iv e r r ¥ Frye d Kilometres Tauranga Direct r Lake a Oturoa W Okareka Fleming Lake Tikitapu Lake Tarawera SP1 SOUTH Lakes A Zone WAIKATO Lake DISTRICT Rotokakahi Hamurana Ð Oturoa ¥30 Awahou Stream ¥ Ð ¥5 SP2 Amoore Lake h t L Lake Rotomahana e e lb o a n D a Rotorua rd Lake Okaro Ð ¥5 Waiteti Stream Lake Wikaraka Lake Maraeroa Ð Ngahewa Rerewhakaaitu ¥1 B Ð ur ¥30 ns ¥ da le Tarukenga Lake 1 Ngapouri Western Ngongotaha Stream Karamu 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 Dansey 0.5 Ð Parawai ¥1 Lake lley Dansey Va ak u dise 01234567 Atiamuri am Para M Ngongotaha Ð 30 ¥ Ð Ð ¥38 5 ¥ A ¥ c h i l l e Lake s Ohakuri Ð ¥5 M o Kawaha Point u n t a Trim Ref:Trim RDC-263063 i n Trim Ref:Trim RDC-263063 Fairy Springs Old Quarry Koutu n o rd Ð WHAKATANE o Ð1 G ¥ DISTRICT Lake South View Waikato River Clayton nce agreement May 2012 ri i nce agreement May 2012 M e Edmund T Ð ¥30A Sunset Amohau E TAUPO DISTRICT Old Taupo Ð alfroy Ð5 M ¥ Te Man u Pukehangi Ð Ranolf ¥5 Waikato River Devon Cadastral data obtained under LINZ lice Cadastral data obtained under LINZ lice Roads Rivers Eco Enhancement Area Eco Enhancement Area SP1 & SP2 Lake Roads Streams State Highways Lakes Lake Rotorua Catchment Lake Rotorua Catchment Forest - Indigenous or Exotic State Highways ´ District Boundaries Lakes A Zone Forest - Indigenous or Exotic ´ The Rotorua District Council is proposing results in a reduction of nutrients entering specifi ed zones. as part of the draft District Plan notifi ed waterways. This particularly applies to How does it work? If a landowner can 31 October, to introduce Transferable Nitrogen. It is intended that this may lead to demonstrate that a proposed change to Development Rights (TDR’s) to complement new land uses that have less impact on water their land will reduce nutrient losses beyond other initiatives by the Rotorua Lakes Strategy quality. a 500kg minimum benchmark, then a TDR Group and BOP Regional Council to encourage Where do they apply? TDRs have come up may be granted by the Rotorua District the reduction of nutrient leaching from rural for serious consideration in Lake Rotorua Council and registered to the property title. land. because many dairy farms are located The N equivalence of each TDR has yet to be The TDR initiative is simply a proposal at this away from areas Council intends to service decided, but it is proposed that each TDR will stage. The Council is expecting your feedback, with infrastructure in the short to medium create an opportunity for one extra subdivided so please get involved. You have until 18 term. lot, allowing a higher density development January 2013 to offer feedback. TDRs earned by farmers on their ‘donor’ than would normally be approved in a rural The proposed plan can be viewed online property can be traded for the right to area. The land owner may also sell the right at www.rdc.govt.nz or in print copy at the subdivide in areas designated for that purpose. to subdivide their land to another owner so Council Civic Centre, the Library and City These ‘recipient’ or ‘implementation zones’ that the income can help fi nance a change in Focus. Feedback can be made via the online may be geographically removed from the land use. website or by completion of a submission ‘donor’ property. There will be a “cap” on the number of TDR form available at these same locations. Part 9 The District Plan actually limits donor lots that can be created, so that supply does (Rural) and Part 13 (Subdivision) – particularly eligibility to properties in area SP2, a segment not exceed demand and result in decreased the fi ve pages comprising Section 13.10.1.1 in the northwest part of the Lake Rotorua TDR values. - of the proposed plan, contain most of the catchment with a high proportion of dairy If you have a particular interest in this topic relevant information. In addition Map # 215 farms, where the effects of nitrogen in the please email LRCA committee member Warren (2 maps) show the specifi c detail of areas lake most need to be reduced. Area SP1 Webber via [email protected]. It may affected. is nearby but has superior infrastructure be possible to facilitate a TDR discussion What are Transferable Development services. There is some community concern forum prior to 18 January 2013, by which date Rights? TDRs encourage landowners to about the equity of limiting TDR donor and feedback is required. make a change to the use of their land that implementation eligibility to only these problem may also be affecting several other lakes too and will be the subject of study in the New Year. Lake Tarawera is also trending negatively giving rise to a draft lake plan which will be completed in December 2012. A fi nal plan is expected to be completed by April 2013. It is very pleasing to report that no new actions have been necessary for Lake Rotoiti this year as the nitrogen and Although the 3 yearly average TLI achieved the target, phosphorus phosphorus reduction targets have been reached through the concentrations in Lake Rotoma are the highest on record since construction of the Ohau Diversion wall and sewage reticulation. 1991 when monitoring was begun. This underscores the need to Our 3-yearly average TLI is below our target. get the sewage scheme up and operating as soon as possible. However, BOPRC and RDC have continued to face the challenges Principle actions carried out in the Lakes programme to 30 June in restoring and protecting the Rotorua Te Arawa Lakes. A quick 2012 were: snapshot of the status of the lakes measured by the Trophic Level • Aeration/destratifi cation devices have been trialled in Lake Index (TLI) as shown below: Rotoehu. The results and success of this programme is critical to the in-lake solutions for Lake Rotorua.