Tauranga City Council is offering residents free coffee and cake in return for people having their say on what they would like for the future of Masonic Park.
The council is organising a park Open Day on Tuesday, June 15 from 12-2pm and staff are encouraging the public to come along and share their thoughts.
The future use of Masonic Park is up for debate on tuesday over coffee and cake.
The Masonic Park site, the grass area on The Strand opposite the council office, between The Horny Bull and Hot on the Rocks, was historically home to the Masonic Hotel and is now an open space reserve.
Council staff are in the process of developing a master plan for the site that will look at the physical features as well as any rules and guidelines surrounding the site. The feedback from the open day will contribute to the master plan.
The Masonic Park development is part of the City Centre Strategy, which was developed to provide a guide to major change to land use, built form, public spaces and access in Tauranga's city centre during the next 25-30 years.
3 comments
Correct Use Essential
Posted on 15-06-2010 09:06 | By The author of this comment has been removed.
TO deal with this site properly you first need to clear all the rubbish off including the TCC parking area at the Willow Street end and keep the intrusion of the crazy CBD Transportation Centre well away from it Once back to basics you can then address the whole site in an environmentally friendly way i.e. clean and green and uncluttered.Easy as ABC just grass and trees
SELL IT
Posted on 16-06-2010 08:46 | By The author of this comment has been removed.
First of all get rid of the waste-of-space urban planners or whatever their self-justifying official title is. Then SELL IT to the highest bidder, and let somebody who actually has a stake in its profitability and purpose is put something there that people actually WANT!. Lets face it, if a developer puts something there that nobody wants, nobody will use it, so that would be suicide - Whoever puts their OWN money into it will want it to have a return. For it to have a return, it must be something people WANT If they build something people WANT, it will be useful, and people will use it or buy it. This will result in the MOST EFFICIENT USE of this piece of real estate., and the ratepayers wont be lumbered with the cost and burden of YET ANOTHER ill-run, inefficient, poorly performing THING that the biggest number of LOOTERS demand others pay for. THEN we wont have to pay the wages of councillors, and urban planners to deliberate over what should be done with it, why its not performing, how to make it work, how to fund it etc etc. THEN we wont have to worry about what Hayden Evans latest misdemeanour is about, or if pick 6 or whoever has a hidden agenda THEN apply this to EVERYTHING ELSE the council should NOT be involved in - ie art galleries, Entertainment industry, Stock Car stadiums, swimming pools etc etc etc THEN we could have a reduction in our rates, better facilities, our children wont be mortgaged to the hilt, and the council can concentrate on doing the essential things PROPERLY.
KILL TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE
Posted on 16-06-2010 15:51 | By The Master
Perhaps build a car park building 6 stories high, shops etc along the Strand. To keep the Greeny lot happy the roof can be a green space they do that in the big cities. The equation 1 Keep the trees 2 Get car parks 3 Block TOWN Hall view of the water so they have less distraction from working 4 Will pay its way (guarantee that TOWN Hall will not want to do it) 5 Great view from up top
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