City Vision delivering for Waitematā: achievements 2010 – 2016
Since 2010, the City Vision-led Waitematā Local Board has achieved results for you by combining a progressive vision with responsible financial management. Here are the highlights of what we have achieved and the projects we have underway that we hope to take...
Improving Ponsonby; Getting on with the Job
Ponsonby News column for Waitemata Local Board Chair June 2016 Local Boards are effectively bulk-funded based on residential population by the Governing Body of Council from your hard-earned rates for their discretionary spend to undertake priority local services and...
Update on Waitemata projects
Chair, Waitemata Local Board, Shale Chambers’ April Ponsonby News column Whilst speculation on who may be contesting the upcoming local elections continues, and a declared local candidate is left to make stuff up with wild non-factual populist statements about...
Hidden public spaces in the City Centre
In 2011 Waitemata Local Board Chair, Shale Chambers initiated via a Notice of Motion (item 11.1) an audit of “hidden” public spaces in the City Centre and requested these spaces be appropriately publicised. As he noted at the time: “Whilst most...
First Local Board to develop a community low carbon plan
In 2011 following community feedback the Waitematā Local Board made a commitment to develop a localised plan for reducing emissions that will focus on reducing energy use, sustainable transport options, waste reduction, local food production and more effective and...
Air quality in Queen Street survey
City Vision candidates for the Waitemata Local Board all back the goal of resilient and healthy communities and sustainable environment, with focused care for our environment by reducing pollution – water, air and land. We support and endorse a current survey being...
Painted utility boxes project
The Waitemata Local Board started a project this year of painting utility boxes with a difference. We asked local community and business groups to select one or two utility boxes in their area that they would like to see painted with a mural. These groups were also...
Achieving results through team work on the Waitemata Local Board
Three years ago the City Vision team on the Waitemata Local Board pledged to be a strong local board and responsive to the local community. We have worked hard from day one to deliver on issues that matter to local people. Here are the highlights of what we have...
Carbon Emissions Reduction Plan
Total parts per million of carbon in our atmosphere is, at time of writing, around 397. This is reaching levels not seen for three million years. Not 300 hundred years, or 3,000 years, but three million years. Back then, the world was a different place; sea levels...From our Facebook page
Some strong advocacy from our Puketāpapa Local Board representative Bobby Shen - Puketāpapa Local Board has paid off. Have a read through about how he managed to get this mahi done - it included busting out the tape measure!
Road Safety Week 2023 has raised awareness of our road safety heroes and the steps that everyone can take to stop needless deaths and injuries year-round. At current rates of road harm, over the next five years one in two Aucklanders is expected to be personally connected to someone seriously injured or killed. ![]()
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City VIsion supports evidence-based, best practice road safety that aims towards “Vision Zero” that was adopted for Auckland in 2019. Vision Zero is an ethics-based approach that puts human life ahead of any other benefits, and has now been adopted around the world. The key principle is that, given that people inevitably make mistakes that result in crashes, we should strive to make those crashes “survivable”. You should be able to walk away, rather than be carried away by first responders. ![]()
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We are working to make our communities safer for everyone especially for kids travelling to school with new pedestrian crossings especially near schools, safer speeds, and improvements to footpaths.