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Submission summary
NZNFS is supportive of this statement because it arguably recognizes the need
for a demand-responsive public transport service to cater for annual large-scale
events. It is accepted that outside of peak event periods, there will be insufficient
demand to justify a conventional bus service to service MCEC. However, NZNFS
is receptive to “other innovative approaches” (such as joint funding of an eventbased
service) to meet this growing community need. This concept should be
explored further by the Regional Council.
Decision
“Event centres like the Mystery Creek Events Centre and Claudelands Events
Centre in Hamilton have the potential to hold large scale events. Collaboration
with the events centres by providing services during events, in line with policy 15
around cost responsibility, will help to reduce event congestion and help to
promote public transport.”
Provision of public transport services to events and the policies and actions
around that are covered in Section 7.2.6 Special Events, of the WRPTP. Section
6.4 Serving New Growth Areas is more specifically about growth areas in terms
of residential or commercial development.
Amend by adding in section 6.4 pg. 46
“Introduction of…and developing residential areas as well as connections to new
commercial activity areas is important…”
Joint funding of event based service by Regional Council – P15 in the Draft
WRPTP is the policy states the position on funding of public transport services to
events.
Amend by adding new action in 7.2.6:
“Council may consider requests to provide some funding support to large scale,
non-commercial events where the community benefits are recognised”
Amend last paragraph section 7.2.6:
“In some cases, For large scale, non-commercial events, the cost of additional
service provision...”
Amend by adding new sentence to last paragraph in section 7.2.6:
“Large scale non-commercial events are defined as events with free entry and
with numbers attending any one day of more than 20,000”
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