If you've already donated to the Friends of Mapua Waterfront Group, thank you!
I've been working with them to make sure our efforts are co-ordinated, and they've done a great job finding a highly experienced KC who is offering her services at a ridiculously low rate.
We're going to need that and more. The Council published their assessment of the application on Thursday. It was a very thorough analysis which concluded that the application should be declined (but it's not unusual for the Commission to reject Council recommendations).
TDC has left the door open for MCBRT to respond in detail. They may choose to do that in person at the hearing, and the Commission may be swayed - 99% of consent applications get approved.
We need to nmake sure we get into the 1%, and to do that we need a couple of specific experts in recreation and water safety. I've set up a givealittle page with the funds going to the bank account the Friends have set up. It should be live pretty soon.
If you haven't given, this is the moment: we're confident we can win at the Commission but we've got to have the best possible team on the field, and rightly or wrongly the Commissioners may more attention to experts than locals.
If you've given already, do you think you can find a little more?
We're down to the wire now, and every little bit is genuinely going to strenghten our case.
See you at the hearing!
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