Better Brighton

From: Jan Kenny
To: kevin.mara@ccc.govt.nz
Cc: marcus@cpsa.org.nz ; garry.moore@ccc.govt.nz ; carole.evans@ccc.govt.nz ; gail.sheriff@ccc.govt.nz
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 1:03 PM
Subject: the Master Plan

I note your E-mail of Friday 29 July 2005, (in reply to "brighton boy's" letter of July 26), posted on the Better Brighton blogspot.

I contest the validity of your comments in this reply, though certainly not their audacity.

I admit my comments have been some time in coming, but I have been busy with the more long-term response to the saga of the road, which has necessarily taken priority.

As a result however, I feel I can respond with confidence now in stating the following:

• Acceptance by the community of the Master Plan was at best only ever contrived.
• The Master Plan was developed by a Taskforce which did not continue to represent the community, did not keep the community informed, and was not therefore able to be monitored and taken to task by the community when it developed nothing but the road. Taskforce minutes demonstrate this.
• The Council is definitely not implementing the Master Plan in accordance with the community wishes. The Master Plan plainly required development to start on the beach and foreshore, with the road a distant third. Your own comments to the Council subcommittee in early 2005 were to remind all that proceeding with the slow road first would not be what the community expected.