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VIEWS 8 The North Canterbury News, September 26, 2019 Tiny house definition is too tough DearEditor, As owners of aselfcontained caravan, we have followed the debate on the status of tiny houses with interest. In the articleonbuilding consents (NorthCanterbury News, September 19) thereissome discussion on how to defineatiny house for the purposesofconsent. Ifeel Mr Taylor is wrong to use the followingdefinition forneeding aconsent. He says: ‘‘Ifithas a toilet,akitchen,abathroom and running water, then it is habitable.’’ Yes,itis habitable in thesame way that our selfcontained caravan(which has atoilet, kitchen, bathroom and running water)ishabitable,sometimesfor long periods, but doesnot needa building consent. Bothour caravan and many tiny housesare stillmobile structures on wheelswithtow bars,and are capable of being towed to new locations. In our view, therefore, wefeel manycouncilsare overreacting in forcing these people to obtain consents. Yours, Dean andLois Farrow Rangiora. ‘Strong leadership will be vital’ Water management has come along way in the Hurunui-Waiau Zone, writes acting chairman Ken Hughey, but regional and national challenges remain. Monday of last week marked a milestone for the Hurunui WaiauWaterZoneCommittee, because in manyways it marked the end of an era. Adecade ago there was an application for aWater ConservationOrderonthe Hurunui River. The Canterbury Water ManagementStrategy was in its earlystagesand the first Hurunui WaiauZone Committeewas coming together. We can now reflect alittleon how far we’ve comewith water managementinthe zonesince then. Amongthese achievements: Ahighlevel of community engagement in ourwater managementchallenges; Aworkable Hurunui and WaiauRiver RegionalPlan; Nutrient limitsand good approachestoprotectingwater quality in the Hurunui and WaiauUwha rivers; The start of major investment in threatened and endangered species bird managementonbraided rivers; The Hurunui Splash project to improvewaterquality and infrastructure around freshwater swimming sites; Good takeup of Farm EnvironmentPlans; Planned further sustainable irrigationdevelopment. Severalindividuals who havebeen instrumental in this progress were farewelled on thatday —chairmanJohn Faulkner, retiringHurunui DistrictMayor WintonDalley, retiring Environment Canterburycouncillor Cynthia Roberts,and another longtermmember, James McCone. These people can all be reliably described as ‘‘Mighty Totara’’. All four thoughtand acted strategically, somethingthat is not alwayseasily donearound the Zone Committeetable. All actedwith integrity and madepositive and significant contributionsover time. All four are totally committedtothe zone and its wellbeing. They worked with vision, commitment, perseverance and patience — all important characteristics whendealing with contentious water management issues. With these ‘‘Mighty Totara’’ departing,who willbethe new leaders steppinginto this space?Strong leadership will be vital given the many initiatives on the horizon. As well as manylocal challenges —integrated water resource management, braided river values, wetland protection and enhancement, river flows,the consequences Clean and clear ... challenge. of someplan rules —there are now regionaland national challenges for the community to consider as well. TreatyofWaitangi implementation, regionalplan changes, biodiversityand climate changeactivity, and most recently the Government’sproposed ‘‘ActionPlan for HealthyWaterways’’, are among them. The Action Planisalot to digestinashorttime. It will certainly have an impact everywhere,soIencourage you to have your say. Recognising its significance, theGovernmenthas extended the submission deadline to October 31. Caring for waterways is aregional and national PHOTO:FILE It is heartening to see that the proposals include actions thatare alreadybeing takenin Canterbury: nutrientlimits, landuse consenttofarm, farm environmentplans (FEPs)and independent FEP audits have beenfeatures of our planning regime for sometime. We also haveinplace rules around stock exclusion and winter grazing. In HurunuiWaiau,weare wellplacedtoaddress the water managementchallenges of thefuture. Thiswill takemore vision, commitment, perseverance and patience —and, very importantly, alot of listening to the community. Don’t assume your smoke alarms are working. Push the button to check them this daylight saving weekend. FNZ0032_200x265
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