Tag: TCC Strategy

My Summary of the TCC Aquatics Network Strategy 2012 – 2022

This is article #6 in my 16 part series summarising Tauranga City Council strategy documents.

Here is my summary of the Tauranga City Council Aquatics Network Strategy 2012 – 2022 (30 pages 0.53Mb .pdf).

We are fortunate to have so much coastline and glorious beaches, but this doesn’t mean our swimming pools are any less dear to us.

Our rapidly growing population is causing us to reach the capacity of our swimming pool network faster, so we’ll need to:

  • invest in extensions to current facilities,
  • construct a new venue,
  • or reach agreements with schools for use of their pools to meet growing demand

According to this document, funding for our Aquatic Network is 70% userpays and 30% via rates.

For each of the pool complexes, concerns raised by the public were discussed. Continue reading “My Summary of the TCC Aquatics Network Strategy 2012 – 2022”

My Summary of the TCC Age-Friendly City Strategy 2013 – 2023

This is article #5 in my 16 part series summarising Tauranga City Council strategy documents.

Here is my summary of the Tauranga City Council Age-Friendly Strategy (45 pages. 3.9Mb .pdf).

We keep hearing about the world’s ageing population. The demographics of Tauranga have always been skewed towards the elderly. So, from a council perspective, issues that affect our elders, have always been on our minds.

This strategy had a number of feel-good ideas that I agreed with. Here are just 4 examples from the action list: Continue reading “My Summary of the TCC Age-Friendly City Strategy 2013 – 2023”

My Summary of the TCC City Centre Strategy 2012

This is article #4 in my 16 part series summarising Tauranga City Council strategy documents.

Here is my summary of the Tauranga City Council City Centre Strategy 2012 (135 pages. 22Mb .pdf).

This document was one of the biggest ones in this series: 135 pages.

I work in the city centre every day, so the city centre issues are in front of my eyes all the time. But I suspect that those of you that live and work in the self-contained suburbs of The Mount, Papamoa, Greerton and others, and rarely have cause to come to the CBD, care much less about the CBD.

But I think if we had a CBD to be proud of, all of us would share in that pride whether we made use of the area on a daily basis or not.

There are 5 sections on this document that interested me the most. Continue reading “My Summary of the TCC City Centre Strategy 2012”

My Summary of the TCC Tauranga Transport Strategy 2012-2042

This is article #3 in my 16 part series summarising Tauranga City Council strategy documents.

Just so you know, there was a lot of overlap between:

Those documents together were 271 pages, a huge 27% chunk of my reading.

My notes below focus on the TCC strategy, not the TUNS.

This was my another very exciting strategy document. I was fascinated.

I found it exciting for 3 reasons: Continue reading “My Summary of the TCC Tauranga Transport Strategy 2012-2042”

My Summary of the TCC Infrastructure Strategy 2015 – 2045

This is article #2 in my 16 part series summarising Tauranga City Council strategy documents.

Here is my summary of the Tauranga City Council Infrastructure Strategy 2015 – 2045 (24 pages. 680kb .pdf).

I found this strategy document hugely interesting for 3 reasons:

  1. The time scale is huge: 30 years (and 50 years for some of the projections)
  2. The financial investment is huge: billions and billions of dollars
  3. The number of people joining us by 2045 is huge. Increase everything by 50%.
    • 50% more people, 50% more houses, 50% more jobs, 50% more traffic on the roads etc

Let’s take a closer look. Continue reading “My Summary of the TCC Infrastructure Strategy 2015 – 2045”

4 Lessons From 1029 Pages Of Tauranga City Council Strategy

I love to read.

Lucky for me because early on in my research for becoming a Tauranga City Councillor I was told that councillors do a lot of reading.

So I started with the Long Term Plan, and next I took on 16 Tauranga City Council documents I found on the strategies page of the TCC website.

  • I stitched them together in a single pdf that was 1029 pages long
  • It took me 6 weeks to read it from cover to cover
  • It took me another 4 weeks to write my summaries
  • I got up at 5.15am every morning (including Saturdays and Sundays) and read for a 60 – 90 minutes before my 3 sons woke up
  • I loved it!
  • The documents were all well written, easy to read, good layout, lots of photos and diagrams and maps, lots of headings and bullet points

Continue reading “4 Lessons From 1029 Pages Of Tauranga City Council Strategy”