North Canterbury News: August 03, 2023
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What’s happening in your<br />
community…<br />
Let's Talk About Significance and<br />
Engagement Policy<br />
The Council is committed to making informed<br />
and sustainable decisions in the best interests<br />
of communities across our District. We want to<br />
ensure the decisions made reflect the aspirations<br />
of tangata whenua, residents, ratepayers,<br />
community groups and business.<br />
To help us to make the best decisions, Council<br />
engages with our communities every day in a<br />
number of different ways. Sometimes, this is us<br />
providing information, and other times we directly<br />
seek input into our decision-making processes.<br />
Our Significance and Engagement Policy helps us<br />
by doing two main things:<br />
1. It outlines for the Council and the community<br />
how wedecide what issues, proposals, decisions,<br />
assets and activities are significant<br />
2. Sets out how and when communities can expect<br />
to input into council decision-making processes.<br />
Generally speaking, the more significant the issue,<br />
the greater the level of consultation or engagement.<br />
This policy seeks to provide clarity as to when the<br />
Council will, and will not seek public participation.<br />
What changes are we proposing?<br />
We are proposing to add acriteria for significance<br />
under section 5.4 of the proposed policy.<br />
This introduces anew criteria for assessing how<br />
significant amatter is in relation to the impact it<br />
may have onclimate change (both adaptation and<br />
mitigation) being substantially negative.<br />
It reads:<br />
The impact or consequences the decision or proposal<br />
will have onclimate change mitigation (through<br />
greenhouse gas emissions) oradaptation (the<br />
reduction of risk to natural hazards exacerbated by<br />
climate change) is substantially negative. Adecision<br />
to not act considering known climate change risks<br />
should be treated as more significant that it would<br />
otherwise be due to forecasted implications on the<br />
community. For example, building new facilities<br />
in coastal hazard areas would be considered<br />
substantially negative.<br />
This inclusion acknowledges the feedback we've<br />
had from locals that they wish the Council to<br />
show leadership byprioritising climate change,<br />
sustainability and environmental protection. It<br />
will also align our engagement practice with the<br />
Council's Climate Change Policy.<br />
This policy was last updated in 2020. At the time it<br />
noted arequirement for afurther update in <strong>2023</strong><br />
ahead of the upcoming Long Term Plan.<br />
Have your say at waimakariri.govt.nz/letstalk<br />
before 5pm, Friday 18 <strong>August</strong> <strong>2023</strong>.<br />
About Significance<br />
and Engagement Policy<br />
We’re reviewing our Significance and Engagement<br />
Policy which outlines for the Council and the<br />
community how wedecide what issues, proposals,<br />
decisions, assets and activities are significant.<br />
We are proposing to add acriteria for significance in<br />
the proposed policy. This introduces anew criteria for<br />
assessing how significant amatter is in relation to the<br />
impact itmay have onclimate change (both adaptation<br />
and mitigation) being substantially negative.<br />
Find out more about this proposed change and let us<br />
know what you think at waimakariri.govt.nz/letstalk<br />
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