Southern View: June 12, 2018

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Name sparks controversy
Heathcote
Ward city
councillor
Sara
Templeton
explains
the process
behind road
naming in
the city
THERE’S BEEN some
discussion within these pages
recently about the naming of a
new street in Heathcote Valley
– Kairuri Lane.
It’s clear from comments
that the city council’s processes
around road naming are
opaque, so I thought I’d have
a go at explaining them, using
this one as an example.
Under the city council’s
roads and right-of-way naming
policy, the names considered
for new roads must be requested
by the developer, who puts
forward three for consideration.
The community board is
then able to either approve a
name or not.
In this instance the developer
had requested that Reynard
Lane be approved by the
Linwood-Central-Heathcote
Community Board, but the
board had concerns that it
wasn’t in keeping with other
historic street names in the
area, so asked the developer to
present some other options.
He did and came back at the
following meeting with Reynard
Lane as his preferred option,
then Abney Lane (named
for an old surveying tool) and
also Kairuri Lane (the Maori
word for surveyor).
He had consulted with
Mahaanui Kurataiao Ltd, a
resource and environmental
advisory group, which agreed
that the name ‘Kairuri’ was
culturally appropriate.
The word kai in this case is
used as a prefix to verbs and
stipulates the person of the
action. For example mahi
(work) is kaimahi/worker and
kōrero (speak) is kaikōrero/
speaker. Rūri is a translated
English word for ruler, so
Kairūri means surveyor. The
community board has previously
had concerns about the
road naming policy and last
year asked the city council to
review the policy to enable
better outcomes.
We were concerned that
CONCERNS:
The choice of
name – Kairuri
Lane – for a new
subdivision on
Bridle Path Rd
has attracted
controversy.
there is currently little resident
involvement and also that
it was difficult to encourage
developers to present Te Reo
names as options.
The city has very few
Maori street names, even with
the long historic connection to
the area and so this was one of
the issues that we took into consideration
when we approved
the developers’ third option.
I am hopeful that the review
of the policy will mean both
greater community involvement
in road naming processes,
especially in existing
communities, and a greater
recognition of tangata whenua.
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