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2346 days ago

Draft Plan Change 11 – Residential Density - Feedback runs from Friday 23 August until Monday 30 September 2019

Rudi from Hamilton Lake

reducing the minimum section sizes in the General Residential Zone from 400m2 to 300m2
enabling apartments as restricted discretionary activities in the General Residential Zone where:
a) the site adjoins, or is immediately across the carriageway from, publicly- owned sport, recreation and neighbourhood open space zones

b) the site adjoins publicly-owned natural open space zones that adjoin the mainstem of the Waikato River, or Lake Rotoroa

requiring two car parking spaces per apartment in the General Residential Zone

processing apartments as a non-notified activity in the Residential Intensification Zone.

You can read all relevant material relating to Plan Change 11 including the proposed changes to the District Plan provisions, a detailed summary of the changes, and map showing where it is proposed to enable apartments through a resource consent​​​, at hamilton.govt.nz/planchange11

Feedback runs from Friday 23 August until Monday 30 September 2019 at 4.30pm.

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Poll: Would you help your kids out with buying a home?

Libby Totton Reporter from Waikato Times

OPINION: Over the past year, I’ve had the same conversation with many Waikato families again and again.

A child has found a house. The market feels like it’s moving. There’s pressure to act quickly. And before anyone has really had time to think it through, parents are being asked to step in with cash, guarantees, or equity from their own home.

Would you help your kids out with buying a home? Tell us more in the comments (adding NFP if you don't want your words used in print).

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Would you help your kids out with buying a home?
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  • 71.4% Yes.
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  • 14.3% No
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3 hours ago

Poll: What do you think of the new police move-on powers?

Libby Totton Reporter from Waikato Times

Central Hamilton businesses are welcoming police being given new powers to move on vagrants, with a city retail advocate saying the previous hands-off approach wasn’t working.

On Sunday the Government announced it would grant police powers to order any individual rough sleeping, begging, or displaying disorderly behaviour to move on.

What do you think of the new police move-on powers? Tell us more in the comments (adding NFP if you don't want your words used in print).

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What do you think of the new police move-on powers?
  • 100% They're needed
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  • 0% They won't change much
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