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Revision as of 10:43, 27 September 2007
The Community and People of Waiheke (CAPOW) is an organisation formed specifically to contest Plan Change 38, a proposed change to the Hauraki Gulf Islands District Plan, that would have altered planning rules at Matiatia, Waiheke's gateway bay, and provided for a $3.5 million development by Waitemata Infrastructure Ltd (WIL). CAPOW led a community-based fight against the plan change, which would have seen significant commercial and residential development on what is known locally as the Harbourmasters property, adjacent to the island's major passenger ferry terminal. When the Environment Court in 2004 concurred with CAPOW's view that Auckland City had erred in its interpretation of the rules and restricted the development to a third of its original proposed coverage, Auckland City mayor Dick Hubbard personally put it to the developers that the city council should acquire the land. A deal was struck for $12.5m which saw the immediate introduction of carparking charges at Matiatia to help the council pay the debt on the loan it had taken out.
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