Have your say on the Auckland Plan
The Auckland Council is doing something very good. Rather than requiring feedback on their plan to be typed up on the official form, and sent in via snail mail, they are encouraging feedback vis social media.
The Auckland plan is the Auckland Councils 30 year plan – the goal is to make Auckland the world’s most liveable city. The consultation on the draft plan closes on Tuesday May 31st and It’s open to anyone to provide comments.
The full discussion document is here. It is rather large at 288 pages, so most will want the 17 page summary document. It poses a number of questions in nine categories ranging from how to make Auckland more child friendly and more business friendly. Also on whether the current urban metropolitan limit should be increased etc.
So if you are an Aucklander or care about Auckland, you can have you say. Here are the ways you can do so:
- Comment on this blog post. Yes they will collate (substantive) comments made on blogs about the Auckland Plan.
- At the Auckland Plan website.
- By e-mail
- On Facebook
- Or if you can be really concise, on Twitter using #aklplan
It’s good to see the Council use social media to make it easy to provide feedback. So if you have a view on what needs to change in Auckland in the next 30 years, just comment below or use one of those other channels to have your say.
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May 25th, 2011 at 11:49 am
Why aren’t ferry services being developed now, not in the future?
May 25th, 2011 at 12:23 pm
I placed my feedback.
But I imagine it will be a waste of time.
What happens with these things is that the council staff develop the plan they want and then they set about the ‘consultation’ process. And then put in place the plan they have had all along.
It’ll be a smart growth plan. ‘Smart’ meaning very heavily restricted and hideously expensive to do anything.
May 26th, 2011 at 1:46 am
Yay! Now the process of interfering in each others’ property rights is supercharged by the efficiency of web 2.0.