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Mr Ide
introduced the agenda item which presented a revised draft version of Change
5 and the associated section 32 evaluation summary report. Mr Ide outlined
revisions made in the draft version following the Committee’s discussions at
its 5 September meeting. Mr Ide also highlighted the key features of Change
5 and noted options previously circulated amongst Committee members regarding
how Change 5 might address matters of assessing, identifying and managing
‘outstanding fresh water bodies.’
Chairman Wilson and Councillor Rose
left the meeting at 1.30pm
Mr Waaka assumed the Chair.
The Committee discussed the draft version
of Change 5 and made several amendments .
Responding to questions from the
Committee, Mr Ide advised that:
·
OBJ LW1 is to be achieved within the RMA’s
overall purpose, so including reference to “sustainable” management is
appropriate;
·
Change 5 is not starting with a blank canvas .
The new LW3 chapter is focussed on the integration of decision-making whereas
other chapters in the existing RPS contain provisions with specific types of
resources;
·
References to “providing for” something
typically means, in an RMA context, actively doing something, rather than a
passive action;
·
To implement the policies, a toolbox of
non-regulatory and regulatory methods is highly likely to be utilised, and
POL LW4 clearly expresses that intention;
·
It would be clearer if OBJ 27’s reference to
values being “identified by the community” be replaced with reference to the
catchment-based approach outlined in POL LW2;
·
For the purposes of the Mohaka regional plan
change, the focus Council has previously endorsed is on the Mohaka River
catchment, so the indicative Mohaka ‘Catchment Area’ should be amended to
exclude the neighbouring Waihua River and Waikari River catchments;
·
The Regional Coastal Environment Plan contains
policies and rules dealing with coastal gravel extraction (as distinct from
river bed gravel extraction provisions in Chapter 3.11 of the Regional
Resource Management Plan);
·
With reference to OBJ29, it is Council’s role
to manage the rivers and it would determine when and how much gravel would be
extracted ‘at the appropriate time’
·
Draft Policy 20A was relocated as POL LW3;
·
Several objectives in Change 5 could be
reworded for a clearer descriptor of the intended outputs of improved
integrated and sustainable resource management decision-making;
·
In POL LW3 (b) would replace the word ‘animal’
to ‘livestock’ which would provide greater clarity that the policy relates to
production land and farmed animals;
·
Clarity about the scope of Change 5 would be
assisted by publication of the Council’s National Policy Statement for
Freshwater Management progressive Implementation Programme. The programme
will indicate that Change 5 is not intended to comprehensively give effect to
the NPSFM in one go.
Councillor von
Dadelszen in moving the motion noted it was an important time for the
Committee to consider the changes which would then follow on with amendments
to several existing documents and submissions could be received from the
public when it is publicly notified in due course.
Councillor von
Dadelszen congratulated staff on the excellent production of the s32
document.
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