A developer has unveiled plans to build a $15million complex featuring a medical centre, café, pre-school and motel in a vacant lot opposite Tauranga Hospital.
Developer Paul Spillane, for Mount Maunganui based SNG Investments, unveiled the plans for the Cameron Road development between 18th and 19th Avenue at a council meeting yesterday.
The proposed development on Cameron Road.
At the meeting Paul requested he be let off paying for a set of traffic lights and road widening that is required to cater for extra traffic using the development.
Paul says it is unfair to make him pay the full cost when the city council, Tauranga Hospital, and the village and Fairway Holdings in 17th Avenue will all benefit from the work.
He says the $15million development to be known as 830 Cameron Road will provide 103 new jobs when completed, as well as employing 30-40 building trades contractors during construction - expected to take at least a year.
The development itself also represents a considerably improved rating income for the council over the present unimproved carpark.
The required upgrading includes four-laning Cameron Road between 17-18th Avenues and traffic lights at 18th Avenue.
Council staff estimate the cost to be $600,000, without the cost of relocating the water main, the recently laid broadband fibre optic cable and other utilities.
Entry and exits to the development will be off 18th and 19th Avenues.
Mayor Stuart Crosby agreed the council and community also has a role to play in upgrading that particular part of the Cameron Road corridor, as the wider community will benefit from the work.
His suggestion that the council and New Zealand Transport Agency be included in the costs sharing was adopted.
SNG's consent application for the development is being lodged this week.
4 comments
Please Mr Crosby
Posted on 20-11-2012 18:27 | By Sambo
dont do anything to hinder investment in this town, we would like it, just think extra rates, jobs for some, and more cash changing hands for others.
No
Posted on 20-11-2012 20:01 | By Capt_Kaveman
more traffic lights please + cameron rd should already be 4 lanes with no parking 6am - 6pm in the left lanes which are currently parking, and roundabout please TCC cant even get its current ligths to run prob since ive been bk here since 1994
Implications
Posted on 21-11-2012 21:10 | By penguin
While development is good, I hate to think of the traffic chaos that will ensue from the extra 'loadings' associated with such a facility. One only has to experience the daily snarl-ups that occur when the local schools empty each day, when the local 'rush-hour' chokes up the lanes merging at 17th Ave lights and the 'stop-go' ripple as peak hour traffic copes with lights at Gate Pa shops and Gate Pa School/Girl's College pedestrian crossing. I have observed this area for over sixteen years so am ‘educated' in my observations! Part of a solution might be to remove the cycle lanes either side of Cameron Road which were put in at great cost and are hardly ever used except by cyclists riding in the wrong direction and some motor bikes and scooters! The ‘captured' road width could be used to put in 'slip lanes” and or turning lanes to assist traffic flow. I suspect the pedestrian crossing at the hospital may need to be eventually a light-controlled one. But that might just exacerbate the traffic flow issues...
CRAZY
Posted on 22-11-2012 17:15 | By TERMITE
Cameron Road should already be 4 lane all the way, the traffic flow already justifies that, the only reason not already done along that stretch of road is because the Hospital fails to provide adewuate carparking onsite for its own use. This is just another case of the classic situation of buck passing!
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