Rotorua Lakes Symposium 2013

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How can the District Plan Help Water Quality in Lake Rotorua - Transferable Development Rights (TDRs)

Thursday 4th July 2013, RDC Civic Centre

EDITOR’S NOTE

FOREWORD - ROTORUA LAKES SYMPOSIUM 2013

SESSION ONE

QUESTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

SESSION TWO

WORKSHOP SESSION 1

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Symposium insights on use of TDRs
(LakesWater Quality Society, 2013) McLean, Ian
Ian is a life member and committee member of LWQS, and helped develop this Symposium. He was formerly chair of the society and led the transition to LWQS from the Lakeweed Control Society, as well as the first symposia in 2001. Ian was an MP for Tarawera for 12 years. He has considerable governance experience as former chair of the Earthquake Commission and the Parliamentary Public Expenditure Committee. For over two decades he has worked in earthquake insurance and related emergency management.
Symposium insights on use of TDRs
(LakesWater Quality Society, 2013) Matheson, Bal
Bal is a specialist in resource management and environmental law, and is a partner in Russell McVeagh's Environment, Planning, and Natural Resources Group. He provides strategic advice for, and leads, many large scale infrastructure and commercial projects from the conceptual stage through to obtaining consents. This includes applications in the energy sector (hydro-electricity generation), industrial air discharge projects (sulphur, PM10, solvents), manufacturing, infrastructure (gas and electricity transmission, bulk water supply, wastewater, trade waste), mining (quarrying, clean fills and mining), contaminated land (assessment and remediation), dairy (manufacturing sites and dairy farms), residential (retirement villages, aged care facilities, townhouse developments), education facilities, large scale subdivisions, and town centre developments (retail, commercial). Bal has a particular interest in water related topics. He is co-author of the 'Water' chapter of the 4th Ed. and online editions of New Zealand's leading environmental textbook Environmental and Resource Management Law (Ed. Nolan, D.A.), and has been involved in many projects involving water takes and discharges. Most recently this has included acting for TrustPower Limited on its successful application to vary the National Water Conservation Order (Rakaia River) 1988, enabling the development of a comprehensive irrigation and generation scheme on the Canterbury Plains, while ensuring that the outstanding characteristics identified by the Order remained protected. Bal also has considerable experience in related fields of the Public Works Act 1981 (acting for both those acquiring land and landowners who are subject to Public Works Act procedures), Local Government Act processes (rating, development contributions), law reform, and, under the Resource Management Act 1991, district and regional plan formulation.
Workshop Session 2
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Workshop Session 2
Mechanisms & issues
(LakesWater Quality Society, 2013) Morgan, Gwyn
Gwyn has been working in the policy field for over 20 years with Fonterra, Auckland Regional Council, DairyNZ and Federated Farmers. His experience through all of these roles has been working in the sustainable farming area. This has included policy development and implementation as well as extension tools that enable farmers to adapt to policy change in a way that is economically viable. TDR’s are one of these tools available and they can be useful but that is dependent on many variables.
Implications and opportunities for Maori land in the Rotorua catchment
(LakesWater Quality Society, 2013) Tahana, Arapeta
Arapeta is the Portfolio Manager, Waiariki Region, at Te Tumu Paeroa. He works with Maori land owners to enable them to achieve higher aspirations for their land and assets. He also collaborates with a wide range of other people and organisations, from owners in Māori land blocks, to government agencies, private sector companies and experts in many fields to find innovative and pragmatic solutions to the challenges of growing Māori. He is an elected member on the Māori Advisory Committee to RDC working to develop a meaningful partnership between Te Arawa and the Council.
A real estate agent's view
(LakesWater Quality Society, 2013) Umbers, Dave
Dave comes from a background of a career in farming where he progressed from being a shepherd to a manager of a large scale drystock farm. He then changed careers to Real Estate in 1996. During the last 17 years Dave has worked in a variety of roles from a sales person to manager to principal and now business owner at VIPREALTY. During this time he has been involved in many millions of dollars’ worth of rural transactions. As a business owner and real estate professional he is very interested in the future direction farming will take to ensure our grandchildren will inherit a place to live that is at least as good, if not better than what we have today.
Workshop Session 1
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Workshop Session 1 - Rororua Lakes 2013 conference
TDR size and quantity
(LakesWater Quality Society, 2013) Park, Simon
Simon Park has been contracted by BoPRC for several years to provide advice on land use and management in the Rotorua Lakes catchment. Since 2012 this has included working with LWQS and the Farmer Collective on collaborative solutions for Lake Rotorua, especially regarding farm nutrient losses. He is the secretariat support person for the Lake Rotorua Catchment Stakeholder Advisory Group (StAG). Simon has an MSc in Earth Sciences from Waikato University. He has previously worked at MfE on sustainable land use policies and has processed resource consents at regional and district council levels.
Incentivising change in the Lake Rotorua catchment
(LakesWater Quality Society, 2013) Grayling, Anna; MacCormick, Alistair
Anna Grayling is the Rotorua Lakes Business Manager for Bay of Plenty Regional Council. After completing a Bachelor of Law and a Bachelor of Sciences at the University of Waikato, Anna’s career began as an ecological consultant. Following this role, Anna spent five years in planning and policy for both the district and regional councils. For the last five years Anna has been dedicated to the Rotorua Te Arawa Lakes Programme. She is now the project lead for the Incentive Fund Development for land-use change in the Lake Rotorua catchment. Alastair MacCormick has worked as a Lakes Restoration Officer with the Bay of Plenty Regional Council since 2007. His primary function has been the implementation of nutrient discharge limits under Rule 11. An experienced user of the Overseer nutrient budgeting software, and with broad knowledge of farming systems in the catchment, he also provides information and advice on the issues and complications associated with nutrient accounting.
What land is included?
(LakesWater Quality Society, 2013) Oppatt, Neil
Neil has served the Rotorua District as both a Rotorua District Councillor for 15 years and now 9 years as a BOP Regional Councillor. Throughout this time Neil has been actively involved in the cleanup of Rotorua's lakes. He is presently a BOPRC appointee on the Rotorua Te Arawa Lakes Strategy Group and was an RDC appointee on its predecessor. He has held positions as Chairman of RDC’s Finance Committee, BOPRC’s Operations and Regulations Committee and the Special Projects Committee set up to address Rotorua lake issues. Neil chaired the Lake Okareka Action Plan Committee and was a BOPRC appointee on the Lake Tarawera Action Plan Committee. Presently he is the BOPRC appointee on the Rotorua catchment Stakeholders Advisory Group.
Where else have TDRs been applied
(LakesWater Quality Society, 2013) Martelli, Phillip
Phillip originally hails from Reporoa. His upbringing and living rurally in the Western Bay of Plenty District for many years, including developing his own orchard, gives him a strong appreciation of the rural environment. Phillip has been with the Western Bay of Plenty District Council for 23 years. As the policy planning manager he has been involved with the evolution of the Protection Lot Rule in district plans from the very beginning. Originally they were bush protection lots for on-site subdivision but now they are a tradable commodity allowing the rights to a title to be transferred to elsewhere in the district.
Session 1: Questions and Clarifications
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Questions and clarifications in Session One
A farmer's perspective
(LakesWater Quality Society, 2013) Morrison, Stuart
Stuart’s family came to farm in the Rotorua area in 1965. After a time away, including pursuing a career in industry, he returned. He has been dairy farming in the Lake Rotorua catchment for more than 30 years. He has been interested in, and part of the discussions about the lake and its catchment for a lot of that time, more particularly in recent years.
What is the Proposed District Plan proposal?
(LakesWater Quality Society, 2013) Dagg, Liam
Liam Dagg is the Planning Services Manager at the Rotorua District Council. He has been with Council since 2005 and before taking up the role as manager was the team leader policy. The district plan review as a public process was commenced under his supervision in late 2007. Producing a district plan that delivers meaningful options around land use change for lake water quality has been a major feature of the review process, with lake water quality identified as one of the important issues the community wants the next generation district plan to deliver on.
Transferable development rights an opportunity to assist in reshaping the Rotorua catchment
(LakesWater Quality Society, 2013) Atkinson, Don
Don is on the committee of LWQS and has been involved in advocating land use change for a number of years. He is a member of StAG which is advising BOPRC on the rules and incentive programme for the Rotorua Catchment. For 20 years he had a valuation practice in Whakatane specialising in rural and forestry valuations and land classification. He is also actively involved in a family dairy farm.
The collaborative process- The new paradigm
(LakesWater Quality Society, 2013) McClay, Todd
Todd was born in Rotorua and raised in Reporoa and Taupo. He has created and owned a number of successful businesses and has worked in a political capacity internationally, in the European Parliament. In 2000 he was appointed the Cook Islands and Niue Ambassador to the European Union. He was first elected in 2008 as the National Party candidate for the Rotorua electorate. Todd has worked hard to service the needs of both the urban township of Rotorua, and the large rural constituency that makes up most of the Rotorua electorate. He recognises the vital role that rural New Zealand plays in the economic and cultural fabric of the country, and is committed to being an active voice in Parliament for all parts of the electorate.
The day ahead
(LakesWater Quality Society, 2013) Webber, Warren
With a professional background in agriculture and veterinary science, and a decade of participation in water quality issues for the Rotorua Lakes catchments, Warren brings an intense personal, but non-vested interest, to issues of nutrient management on the land and in our waterways. Conference management (international and domestic) helps to pay the bills, but voluntary community interests take up much of his time. As an appointee to the Stakeholder Advisory Group (StAG) which considers land management and land use change policy issues on behalf of the Te Arawa Lakes Strategy Group, he is closely involved with the challenges of nutrient allocation and incentives for change.
Foreword- Rotorua Lakes Symposium 2013
(LakesWater Quality Society, 2013) Green, John
The Rotorua Te Arawa Lakes programme is now at a critical phase where nutrient budgets are to be established for landowners across the catchment of Lake Rotorua. The challenge is to reduce the existing nutrient load to the lake by over 43% by 2032.
Editor's note - Lakeswater Quality society 2013 Symposium proceedings
(LakesWater Quality Society, 2013) Green, Anna
Editor's not for Lakeswater Quality society 2013 Symposium proceedings

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