PART A WAITAKERE CITY COUNCIL Best for the West - Waitakere's 10 year Plan MISSION, GOALS AND TE WHAKATAKANGA, NGA PRINCIPLES TUHENGA, NGA WHANONGA WAITAKERE ECO CITY TETAIAO O WAITAKERE sustainable kia mau tonu nga tikanga dynamic whakahirahira just tino rangatiratanga PRINCIPLES WHANONGA open honest communication kia pono kia ngawari responsiveness kia mama nga wawata accountability ko te whanau hei titiro partnership kia haere kotahi innovation kia kakama excellence kia tino ataahua integrity kia haere totika I roto I te rangaimarie SECTION ONE SECTION TWO SECTION THREE WAITAKERE CITY WHAT THE COUNCIL GOVERNANCE COUNCIL’S 10 YEAR PLAN PLANS TO DO Message from the Mayor 2 Introduction 53 Role and structure of Waitakere 214 He mihi na te koromatua 3 City Council Strategic Projects 54 Message from the Chief Executive Waitakere City Council committee Social and Cultural Strategy 58 Offi cer 4 structure (chart) 216 Strategic Planning 63 What is the Long Term Council Waitakere City Council Community Plan? 6 Water Supply 69 organisation (chart) 218 The Long Term Plan and beyond 7 Wastewater 79 Councillors address/contact numbers (by ward) 219 Long Term Plan Consultation Stormwater 91 and Decisions 10 Parks and Open Spaces 103 Te Taumata Runanga address/ contact numbers 221 Financial and other issues facing Transport Assets 111 the City 17 Community board address/contact Property Assets 124 numbers (by ward) 222 What you get for your rates 26 Cemeteries 132 Map of Waitakere 224 Waitakere Community Outcomes 28 Solid Waste 141 Glossary 225 Strategic direction 33 Aftercare 147 Window on Waitakere 45 Library Services 150 How the eco city has developed 46 Emergency Management 156 The City’s planning response 50 Leisure Services 162 The Council’s partnership with Maori 51 West Wave Aquatic and Recreation Centre 168 Arts, Events and Communications 173 Animal Welfare 178 Field Services 182 Resource Management 186 Consent Services 190 Vehicle Testing Station 197 CONTENTS Waitakere Quarry 200 Support Services 204 BEST FOR THE WEST - WAITAKERE’S 10 YEAR PLAN - PART A 1 MESSAGE FROM THE MAYOR This fi nancial plan sees Waitakere You can be pessimistic if you look at the data about the earth, the state of the sticking to precisely our way of working economy and the audacity of current politics. But there are so many - Council staff, for 20 years: to see the standard elected members, volunteers , citizens old and young, entrepreneurs - who are functions of Council done effi ciently working with us and together to restore this earth and the lives of those who are and well and also to generate projects suffering. And if you aren’t optimistic about that, check your pulse. We really are that make a demonstrable difference good at this. for future generations. Twenty years ago they told us an eco-city was absurd. But on any aerial map of Richard the Third, in Shakespeare’s Auckland you can see the difference we have made in Waitakere: our quarter of version, said “now is the winter of our it is stable and compact, the rest of them have spread out all over the place. That discontent.” True enough right now, but took 20 years. That is the faith of evidence. timing is everything. This plan shows we are still on a huge roll. So don’t be put off by people who know what is not possible. Even while the transition to the Auckland Council is underway, Waitakere will continue to do what We are keenly mindful of the stresses needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only after we are done. on the economy and on ratepayers, so There is a rabbinical teaching that if the world is ending and the Messiah arrives, there has been a hard ruler put over fi rst plant a tree and then see if the story is true. Forget the tree - we’re replanting many line items. the earth. However in specifi c areas such as New Waitakere City will continue to promote and sustain a vision of what local initiative Lynn and in the north-west, we are now can achieve. Human beings endure but what really sets them apart is their changing the whole of this quarter of willingness to restore, redress, rebuild, recover and re-imagine. That means you. Auckland, one city block at a time. You Through all of this the work of the City will continue and your contribution is vital to may not see it yet, but this City has it. built in more momentum than any other I know of in New Zealand. MESSAGE FROM THE MAYOR FROM MESSAGE BOB HARVEY MAYOR SECTION ONE 2 BEST FOR THE WEST - WAITAKERE’S 10 YEAR PLAN - PART A HE MIHI NĀ TE KOROMATUA Kei roto i tenei Whakaritenga Putea o Waitakere te herenga pumau mo te No reira kaua e awangawanga e ahuatanga mahi i nga tau rua tekau - ara te pai o nga whakahaerenga kaunihera, whai atu ia ratou e whakaaro kuware me te takatu ki kaupapa whakahirahira painga ano mo nga uri kei te heke mai. nei. Ahakoa ka timata te haere o te kaupapa mo te Kaunihera Taumata Ki ta Kingi Rihari Te Tuatoru, i roto i te pukapuka o Hakapia “ Anei ra te wä o Tamaki Makaurau, ka haere tonu muhumuhu o te hötoke”. He tino pono tenei korero inaianei, engari kia tau ano a Waitakere i runga i ona tikanga tona wa. Ka kitea hoki te tino pai, te kakama o to tatou haere whakamua. tutukinga kaupapa, me te titiro mena E mohio ana ki nga pikaunga ohanga kei runga i nga kaiutu reeti koia nei te taka o ka taea, a te mutunga.Ko enei nga te toki ki runga ki nga ritenga noa o te kaunihera. akoranga, nga tohutohu o nga kaiako poropiti (ara Rabbi) e kii nei “ko te Engari i roto i etahi atu takiwa, penei i Te Whau (New Lynn) ki te Raki ( North West) mutunga rawa o tenei Ao, me te taenga e whakatahuritia ana te ahua whenua o Tamaki Makaurau. Ahakoa e kore kitea mai o te Mihaia – whakatongia he inaianei, ka haere whakamua tonu tenei Taone Nui, kahore rawa e taea e etahi atu rakau kia kite koe mena e pono ana rohe taone nui puta noa Aotearoa. tenei korero”. Ko taku – “kaua e whai whakaaro ki te rakau – kei te whakato Ka noho ngakau kino koe mena e kite ana koe i nga kaute e pa ana ki te Ao Turoa, me te whakaora tatou i te Ao Turoa”. te ohanga, me te tino maia o nga mahi torangapu o tenei wa. Engari kaua e pa pouri mai he maha noa nga kaimahi o te Kaunihera, nga mema kua pootihia, nga Ka whakanui tonu Te Rohe Waitakere i kaimahi kore utu, nga kaumatua, kuia, nga rangatahi, taiohi, nga toa kaipakihi – e tona tirohanga ki nga mea ka taea e te mahi tahi ana me matou ki te whakapai ake i te Ao Turoa, me ratou katoa e noho katoa i whakaarotia mai ra ano e ratou. mamae ana i raro i nga kapua pouri. Mena ka kore koe e whai kaha ake i tenei - Ka ora tonu te tangata ma te whakapai, aata tirohia to manawa. He tino tohunga tatou mo te mahi penei. whakatika, whakaora me te whai whakaaro ano ki nga wawata nga mea i Mai i nga tau rua tekau, kua pahure nei, I kii mai ratou kia tatou he mea porangi te moemoeatia. Ko koe tena. kaupapa rohe – kakariki ara “eco-city”. Engari mena ka tirohia mai i nga mahere rangi o Tamaki Makaurau ka kite koe i te pai o te ahua o tenei takiwa o Waitakere. Ma enei mea katoa ka haere tonu nga HE MIHI NA TE KOROMATUA HE MIHI NA He pai tonu te ahua noho o tenei rohe ki era atu rohe kei te whanui rawa, kei te mahi o te rohe o Waitakere. Ma to ruarua kee te noho. Rua tekau tau i mahia ai tenei - koia nei te tino whakapono ki raurau ma toku raua ka ora te Iwi. tenei kaupapa. SECTION ONE BOB HARVEY MAYOR BEST FOR THE WEST - WAITAKERE’S 10 YEAR PLAN - PART A 3 MESSAGE FROM THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER It is with mixed emotions I present this to my feeling of sadness because Waitakere’s future is so fragile in the wake of 10 Year Plan for 2009-2019. On one the government’s decision regarding Auckland’s regional governance. Auckland hand I am proud of this plan which region is going to be one big unitary authority, there’s no question of that, but the details the work programme and transition process to get there is very demanding and intense. That’s unsettling budgets for the years ahead, builds on for everyone, at the council and in the community. We so want to keep the best of our agenda of sustainability and which Waitakere in the new entity and therefore our advocacy becomes relevant. charts a steady path ahead. We need to be resilient and committed to working with the Auckland Transition The focus is on delivering identifi ed Agency. And we are. That’s the only way to ensure the best result for the people of priorities and projects within an Waitakere. envelope of fi scal prudence, a must in troubled fi nancial times. Along Of course we knew the status quo was not going to be an option because there with that, the plan also follows is much that needs to be done regionally in terms of water, leaky buildings, the the government’s lead to focus Resource Management Act and Auckland’s transport issues to name a few.