Create attractive town centres with good road and passenger transport access
Protect and expand the “green network” which links our streams and parks from the Ranges to the sea
Use resources better, and produce less waste
Improve the wellbeing of residents
Since adopting the eco city direction, Waitakere has achieved some significant changes:
Between 1997 and 2000, there has been an average 3% increase in local jobs each year
95% of new homes built in Waitakere City are in the urban area, reducing the pressure to subdivide countryside and the Waitakere Ranges
The Council plants over 80,000 native trees and plants each year
There has been a 30% drop since 1998/99 in the amount of rubbish each resident generates
- including litter, illegal dumping and inorganic rubbish
From having some of the worst road safety statistics in NZ, Waitakere now has some of the best, including a halving of child pedestrian and cycle injuries since 1998
The city has built strong partnerships with the city™s two
iwi, Te Kawerau a Maki and Ngati Whatua, and has set up a
Taumata Runanga with representatives of key Maori groups in the city as a standing committee of the
Council.
