Orautoha calls MP to dump site
RDC to appoint independent commissioner to decide resource consent
Orautoha residents unhappy with coun cil's actions over the siting of their rubbish transfer station have organised an on-site meeting with their member of parliament, Mark Burton. Meanwhile, the consent authority, which is the council itself, has commissioned an independent report relating to the traffic safety implications of the plan. The matter will be considered and determined by an independent commissioner appointed for that purpose, reports the council.
The council had faced a no-win situation in that it must adhere to the law with regard to all applications under the Resource Management Act including its own, even if a decision was counter to its own plans. Also invited to the on-site meeting, to be held Thursday 5 December, are Ruapehu District councillors and mayor, Waimarino Community Board members and council officers including the town planners who are the current target of the group's anger.
"Our town planners are still insistent that the Orautoha Transfer Station be resited to the council holding paddock," states group representative Graham Mills. "The Ruatiti and Orautoha community are at ends to know what it takes to get our council to understand the meaning of 'no'," he said. Turned down The town planners have advised the council that an application to put the transfer station on the old dump site would have to be turned down because
the entrance does not meet the traffic regulations with regard to sight distances. Despite this advice, the WCB has recommended that the application for a resource consent be pursued. Mr Mills states that the present dump entrance has 40 metres' sight distance. "As far back as any of the locals can remember, 30 years plus, no one can recall there ever being an accident," he told Mr Burton. "This is a dump site for the locals, used by locals, who are well aware of the sight distance."
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Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 14, Issue 665, 3 December 1996, Page 1
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