Long Term Community Plan 2012-2022 - Hurunui District Council

Hurunui Community Long Term Plan 2012 - 2022
Service
Relevant
Community
Outcomes
Relevant Issues &
Constraints
Who benefits, and over
what period
Future Funding & Sustainability
Environment and
Safety – Resource
Management
The Council’s funding of
Resource Management
services contributes
to the Hurunui district
being:
A desirable and safe
place to live:
- We have attractive
well designed
townships
- Communities have
access to adequate
health and emergency
services and systems
and resources are
available to meet civil
defence emergencies
- Risks to public
health are identified
and appropriately
managed
A place that
demonstrates
environmental
responsibility:
- We protect our
environment while
preserving people’s
property rights
- We minimise
solid waste to the
fullest extent, and
manage the rest in a
sustainable way
This is a significant and
reasonably discrete area
of expenditure; hence
there are benefits in
terms of transparency and
accountability from funding it
distinctly from other services.
There are no significant costs
involved in this distinction.
Statutory constraints
apply. Recovery of
“reasonable costs” relating
to administration is allowed
under the terms of section 36
of the Resource Management
Act.
Resource Management Act
– resource consents, 100%
user charges. The Council
may waive consent fees as
provided for in the RMA.
In general applicants for
resource consents should pay
all processing costs.
100% benefit from policy
services to the District as a
whole through promotion of
the sustainable management
of the District’s natural and
physical resources for future
generations.
The predominant benefit from
consents is to the individuals
who require them, but
there is some benefit to the
District as a whole in that all
ratepayers can be assured that
the environment they work,
eat, drink and live in is safe
and managed in accordance
with the principles of sustainable
management under the
provisions of the Resource
Management Act.
Capital costs are minimal in
this function and the benefits
from operational expenditure
are spread over the year
it is incurred. Any costs of
mediation to make the District
Plan operative to be spread
over the life of the plan (10
years).
Resource Consents:
• 100% user charges. Council may waive
consent fees as provided for in the Resource
Management Act.
Private District Plan Changes:
• All costs met by the applicant.
Council Initiated Plan Changesded by the l Rate.
• Extraordinary Planning Issues will be
assessed on a case-by-case basis to
determine the appropriate method for
funding.
• Some of the benefits from RMA related
services will be linked to the value of land
owned; others will be independent of this.
The balance of the costs will be met by a
District Rate (known as the planning rate).
Sustainability:
• The slight ongoing negative effects on the
economic wellbeing of ratepayers from the
cost of the service will be offset by future
gains in environmental and social wellbeing.
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