Auckland Council staff push back on liberalised rural urban boundary

Auckland Council staff push back on liberalised rural urban boundary
Paul McBeth
By Paul McBeth Aug. 9 (BusinessDesk) - Auckland Council staff are recommending most of the proposed changes in the draft unitary plan be adopted, but are pushing back on making the rural-urban boundary as loose as an independent hearings panel is proposing.  Staff backed the plan's proposal to bring the boundary to the district plan level and deleting it from rural and coastal towns and villages to allow for some growth in those areas but were against the dropping a policy target to focus growth in the existing metropolitan areas and oppo...