Kaiapoi
A nicely landscaped area
Kaiapoi
Ideas from 11 August Community Workshop
* Create an area that welcomes people to the area
* Low mountain fields to encourage families i.e. model race track
* Petanque, a driving range, mini golf
* Most amazing playground for children
* Under 10year old bike tracks, these mini bike tracks link to Pegasus walkway
* Plenty of parking
* Seating areas
* Gas BBQ area
* Dog park with agility set up
* Make Kaiapoi women friendly/safe
* Create business hub that is supportive which would be a feeder for the business community
* Create planter hanging baskets in Williams St so people want to drive off the motorway
* Must be family friendly
* Younger children haven
* Create the day out Kaiapoi - a destination for families
* Road humps to stop boy racers
* Acknowledge the past, make information points in areas about environmental and heritage
Don’t want a four wheel drive track
Don’t want another team sports field as there are enough already
Kaiapoi
I would like to see the land put to prodective use. I presume that farming would be the best productive use given the land is probably unsuitable for housing.
Kaiapoi
Kaiapoi
I think an earthquake themed playground could be interesting for visitors and children. For example make the slides' steps a chimney with bricks higgledy piggedly. Perhaps each service (fire, police, civil defence, student army, farmy army, red cross, New Foundations, etc) involved with the earthquakes could be invited to design a piece to be included reflecting their area of specialty somehow. Equipment created must incorporate real data as to lean angles, cracks, building bends etc. Explanation boards could accompany each piece, and explain what happened in that particular site over the course of the earthquakes. Should make for an awesome 'crazy' playground that is also educational for all ages. But please don't 'dumb down' the information on any boards. It could have the potential to attract interest by the likes of engineering students etc. who may want to study real life angles of earthquake damage etc. Down near Charles/ Jones St cnr would be good place.
Kaiapoi
Some ideas from 13 August Community Workshop:
* Beautiful river banks
* Dredge out trees
* Kayak club area and canoe - dragon boating - man-powered craft
* Make more of river- fishing
* Fitness track
* Food forest - sculpture parks , picnicing on the river
* Info boards, history of Kaiapoi
* Access to river restricted by stop bank, move stop bank back to allow easy access
* Access to river by powered boats away from town centre
* Marina - Kaiapoi - Marina - easy access to river for man-powered boats will encourage visitors to a place to go to
* Current cycle track too rough
Kaiapoi
A mini Lake Serpentine confined to boating, punting and canoeing. Also a swathe of trees with a Woodland Walk free of nuisance dogs.
Kaiapoi
Park, reserves, gardens, community gardens, fruit trees, nut trees that public can use, never to be built on again, only sports clubrooms. Not even a sports complex.
Kaiapoi
Ideas from the 11 August Community Workshop
* Parklands
* Gold course - as well as Kaiapoi Golf Club, instead of Kaiapoi Golf club?
* Remove roads not required
* Complete regrassing, save the trees e.g. phoenix palms
* Animals - sheep to maintain grassland
* Housing redevelopment - right kind of foundations
* Interim maintenance - grassland state like courtenay drive
* Shift the golf course to the red zone - housing on the current golf course
* Kairaka for residential use
* Contribute to a corridor from inland to sea for birds - wildlife corridor
Kaiapoi
It would be great to have activities and facilities that people coming into town for shopping and work can enjoy - somewhere to go/special to do during lunch time, for example. It would also be good to increase Kaiapoi's ability to attract visitors from outside the immediate region i.e. make the Kaiapoi red zone a special place where people will go for recreation and special events, e.g. an annual river/mountain festival with music acts, food and performances.
Lovely idea. The annual / river mountain festival would attract people to the area, and Kaiapoi's red zone is located so that people can enjoy it in their lunchtime.
Kaiapoi
Dog park.
Clean up river banks from the new council building down towards the maori dam so we can walk down there again.
New fire station 24/7 365 days a year volunteer service in a stuffed station.
Look after the Courtenay Lakes, release fish like they used to for kids fish and game.
Re-develop the Pointer Track / walk ways around around the area.
Play grounds.
Dog park.
BMX track!
Kaiapoi Christmas Carnival back in the league park, was the best one yet for the kids having it all in the one place instead of all over the show.
Bee hives.
Re: Christmas Carnival - Due to road works in that area, it wasn't guaranteed that the carnival could be held there this year. Sorry.
Richard.
Pines / Kairaki Beaches
A picnic area
The area could be set up to be like the amazing race with a car rally, treasure hunt style in mind . Where the area could be fenced off and people be charged a small fee to enter be given a/some clues to try find their way through the course . Those that get through in the determined time could be given a free pass to something .ie. Movies , Antarctic centre .
Neville
Kaiapoi
Thinking of the growing population of young people in the area, I believe something constructive that would positively occupy them - perhaps a well maintained skatepark, toilets with planting and pleasing walkways and/or dog park/agility course.
Kaiapoi
Motorhome park in Kaiapoi
No way. Leave that for the dog park behind the airport.
Happy
Kaiapoi
I would like to see as many trees and shrubs from peoples gardens being preserved. Park land where suitable; perhaps cycle tracks for bike riders.
Kaiapoi
If it is possible, using part of the area to build a venue that could host 10 pin bowling, a multi purpose area that could accommodate netball,football and badminton courts, roller blading and pehaps even a couple of cinema screens would be a valuable asset serving all ages of the community. Some of the land could be used for car parking for the town centre. Creating an ampitheatre area would allow for outdoor events and the majority should be parkland with a variety of trails and walkways.
Pines / Kairaki Beaches
What we as a community would like to see in the interim
1 Community garden
2 When levelled and grassed, perhaps painted checkerboard, draughts, snakes and ladders for children and adults to play (physical exercise)
3 Playground at least what it was before quake
4 Our pool back, with out seat
5 Maybe a dog park since dogs are not allowed in reserves
6 Our hall which is the hub of the community
Eventually to be rebuilt as the community it once was
Kaiapoi
We are Room 9 from Kaiapoi North School. Many of us lived in the red zone. We had to move out. We think it is a good idea to do something there now.
We brainstormed about what we would like to see there for families and where we can be safe:
* Indoor play places we can go to when it is wet, e.g. like Time Zone or paint ball
* Places we can go to with our class for school trips and where we can learn something, like an aquarium or Art place
* Tracks for horse riding, BMX/Cycling, running, go karts
* Sports fields for other sports like volleyball
* Playgrounds with different themes like a 'Space' theme and cafe area for our mums and dads
* Playground with 'mini trains' that you can sit and go around on
* Mini golf course
Good ideas. I particularly like your ideas for horse riding, cycling,, the playgrounds with different themes with cafe areas for your mums and dads, the aquarium or arts place, but they are all good ideas - well done. We could have some of them in our red zone in Christchurch too.
LC
Kaiapoi
Walkways
wild life
Seats
memorial for local people who lost their lives 22 Feb 2011
Kaiapoi
a land mark
bmx track (asap)
skatepark (asap)
Agree no sports fields or 4 wheel drive tracks!! We live on the edge of the red zone and we want it to be a peaceful place not a madhouse!