Kaiapoi
I would like to see reckreation areas bike tracks walking track. We need to utilize having a river running through our town with paddle bikes kayaks, also creating a space for busker and street artist to show there talent and get some positive night life happening here for all people of all ages to enjoy.
Kaiapoi
I am 79 and lost my home in Sewell St, I would love to see Public Gardens and walkways also a BMX track for our young youth.
Kaiapoi
Community spaces
-BMX track
-picnic areas
-orchards
-community gardens
-wildflower areas (sunflowers/lavendars)
Celebrate our RIVER
Kaiapoi
*Dog park in Kaiapoi, gets people active and socialises animals reducing attacks.
*More fruit trees in parks, promote healthy eating snacks for kids
*Agriculture programme or something for youth, teach them how to live off a garden or give a small section to all primary schools and run a quarterly garden competition, flower show etc.
*Keep it green
*Leave one section, so have a before and after
*A big maze, biggest in NZ, something big
*NZ biggest paint ball field
Kaiapoi
Plant manuka introduce bees and produce honey to sell and firewood to sell = money for community which is ongoing sustainable farm. The unemployed could 'work for dole' these.
Kaiapoi
-Parking near library/Museum Hilton St
-Gardens adjacent to this parking area
-North Red Zone - large gravel/paved show area for markets etc.
-Also - campervan place - toilet/power points
-Kaiapoi needs theatres again
There are plenty of good camping grounds nearby for campervans. As the council is investing mega dollars in Kairakiki beach camping ground we don't need another area. Nor should we be encouraging any sort of parasite (freedom) camping in Kaiapoi etc. There is already a big problem with this in and around Kaiapoi, so the council needs to clamp down on it not encourage it.
Kaiapoi
Extract from TV3 news Monday 11th August
A man in the US has created a fruit tree that grows 40 different kinds of fruit.
Sam Van Aken's nursery is a workshop, laboratory and easel all rolled into one, and here he has created his masterpiece.
A springtime rendering of what the tree will look like in blossom has been gathering world-wide attention.
"It's flattering. It's amazing. But yeah, it's also overwhelming," Mr Van Aken says.
He is an art professor who grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania. A few years ago, he learned New York's agricultural experiment station - a 125-year-old institution that preserves and produces fruit - was going to rip up its entire stone fruit orchards.
So Mr Van Aken set out to find a permanent home for fruit varieties that trace back thousands of years.
"When I started, it was a matter of essentially collapsing an entire orchard down onto one tree.
Perfect for a food forest in the Waimakariri area
A man in the US has created a fruit tree that grows 40 different kinds of stone fruit.
Kaiapoi
No housing on it. Would like to see a new pump house around some of the land. Don't spend heaps of money on the land.
Kaiapoi
Here's my submission, the main part of which suggests that the north east Kaiapoi area be managed as "The Norman Kirk Fields" by a special Trust. I've looked at some of the practical and financial issues involved, and also suggested ownership and management structures for the other Kaiapoi and Beach area 'Red Zone' blocks.
Kaiapoi
BMX track
Skateboard park
- in Kaiapoi
Kaiapoi
mature bush and trees, Rimu, nikau palms, ferns, kowhai, rata etc, somewhere that native and introduced birds can thrive/bush walks. No bikes - no horses. Otemanu means place of birds.
yes, but local native trees preferably. Kahikatea, Totara, Titoki, Matai, Pokaka, Kowhai, etc. But not Rimu or Beech, as they don't belong down on the coastal plains.
Di
Kaiapoi
Parks, walkways, childrens playground, native trees that attract birds, bell birds, tuis etc. picnic tables, dog park, vegetable gardens tended by the locals.
Kaiapoi
Ideas from 13 August Community Workshop:
* River walks put in on both sides Courtney Area.
* BMX track, mountain biking tracks.
* Family picnic area near the lake, like Spencer Park, flying fox,
* Memorial - Peace Park
* Sporting complex including softball, netball courts, basketball etc
* A food forest- for residents, fruit trees
* Lakeside a dairy farm, animals etc
* Rose gardens, botanical gardens
* 5 storey hill with a viewing platform that winds up with seating to look out over Kaiapoi out to the sea and mountain
* Change Charters Streets name to 'Charters on the Park'
* Reinstate anglers access for fishing
* Safe, well lit environment
* Residential development - mixture of the above recreational.
Kaiapoi
First of all I would like to see a 5 year time vision, many people won't be here in 15 years time who were affected by the earthquake.
Kaiapoi
Area for locals to share
Reserve
Wetlands
Kaiapoi
Kaiapoi
I would like to see native trees and vegetation flourishing and the return of some native birds.
Kaiapoi
*A boat marina
*A food forest- fruit and nut trees, wild veg and herbs
*A sensory garden trail - accessible track with carefully selected plants for smell, touch, taste, sound and sight
Kaiapoi
Part of this land could be allocated for a Maori 'wet' market site.
Kaiapoi could celebrate its rich Maori heritage.
A market sited on this land could be based around fresh vegetables from the Kaiapoi red zone. Fish from the local tributaries and the Waimakariri River would set this more recently English occupied town apart from any others in Canterbury The market would encourage local growers, encourage traditional methods of growing, promote Maori history. Native plantings, flax swamps would encourage native fish and eels.
Kaiapoi
bigger swimming pools
We would also like public botanical garden with avairy, it would also
encourage other bird life.
Could also have a fish pond in the garden area linking it with low, simple footbridge over it through the garden.
Raewyn