August 2016
Kia ora !
I'm Christian Simon, a trained architect, town-planner and timber-joiner and have lived in Mangawhai for 7 years.
Communities First !
Each community in our area is able to independently manage their own unique destiny.
Democracy is based on freedom. Facilities that are imposed create inefficient, expensive monopolies. The Mangawhai sewerage plant demonstrates that mandatory connections block appropriate, cost-efficient solutions.
Such facilities need to be user-financed, owned and operated.
Communities are much more effective at finding appropriate solutions to their own problems than professional politicians and 'experts'.
I'm a member of the Mangawhai Community Planning group. We have prepared suggestions for a provisional Long Term Plan.
Please join the discussion at www.mangawhailongterm.org.nz
As your Councillor, I would encourage every community to develop their own future plan to create a strong counterpart to powerful corporate interests.
Christian Simon