21 December, 2023 | News, Uncategorized
As we wrap for the summer break we’d like to share with you the year in review from each of our Waitematā, Albert-Eden and Puketāpapa Local Board teams. 2023 has been full of highlights but also some significant challenges. Storms and Cyclone Gabrielle were...
17 December, 2023 | Featured Post, News
City Vision’s Albert-Eden Local Board members Liv Roe, Julia Maskill, Margi Watson and Christina Robertson report back on a full 2023. The year has been full of highlights but also some significant challenges. The Anniversary Weekend floods resulted in Albert-Eden...
13 December, 2023 | Featured Post, News
City Vision’s Waitematā Local Board members Alex Bonham, Anahera Rawiri and Richard Northey report back on 2023. This year has been hard in many ways – floods, cost of living – and council has pivoted to address them all. However, behind the headlines, there...
3 December, 2023 | Featured Post, News, Puketapapa Local Board
Puketāpapa Local Board members Jon Turner and Bobby Shen report back on an eventful year. 2023 started off with record-breaking rainfall in January that took a serious toll on Puketāpapa residents and wider Tāmaki Makaurau. In our area we saw many houses flooded...
16 November, 2023 | Featured Post, News
First published in Ponsonby News November 2023 City Vision celebrates arts and events this Spring in Ponsonby and beyond. Arts and Events make up a tiny fraction of council budgets but they can be the most joyful and memorable. You might even argue they are necessary....
12 November, 2023 | Featured Post, News
Opinion piece first published in Stuff’s community papers October 2023 Julie Fairey, Councillor for Albert-Eden-Puketāpapa ward For twenty years, I’ve lived in a Kāinga Ora dominated neighbourhood called Waikōwhai, south of Mount Roskill. We bought a 1960s...
23 October, 2023 | Featured Post, News
E koekoe te kōkō, e ketekete te kākā, e kūkū te kererū * City Vision is campaigning for #KoolKererū this year as it is the perfect urban bird that we all want to see in our gardens and street trees. The ideal combo of chonky and beautiful, Kererū is a bird we are...
10 October, 2023 | Featured Post, News
On January 27th the world changed for many Aucklanders, and some are still living in uncertainty. Climate change in our city has become more obvious than ever; homes were inundated around stream catchments while the land slid on hillsides and around the coast. Some...
23 September, 2023 | Featured Post, News
Te Kaunihera o Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland Council is currently consulting on the future of Māori representation on council. In October 2023 the decision will be made by the governing body whether to introduce Māori seats for the 2025 local elections. Here Waitematā...
16 August, 2023 | Featured Post, News
In 2009, the “godfather” of zero waste in Aoteaora, the late Warren Snow spoke at a Grey Lynn 2030 public meeting about the concept of a resource recovery centre and the economic, environmental and social benefits it could generate. The vision for a centre was...
