Subdivision planned for valley
Gisborne Herald Article Friday, 5 June 2009
Wainui is about to spread inland, with a 41-section subdivision planned in the Lysnar Valley.
Wainui resident Kate Fraser is applying for a zone change from rural residential to residential for an 8.5 hectare block her family has owned for 40 years.
As director of Myland Holdings Ltd, Kate Fraser envisages an environmentally-sensitive, three-stage residential development encompassing a 3.4ha reserve — seven times the usual requirement — with public access to a large natural pond and part of the Hamanatua Stream.
Gisborne District Council’s draft urban development and urban coastal strategies have already identified the land as a possible expansion area for Wainui.
The last time a comprehensive plan for the area was developed was in 1921 when the land’s former owner,W. Douglas Lysnar, had a plan to create a new town of 200 residential and lifestyle sections.
Kate Fraser’s vision is less grand and more in keeping with the environment. She would not be going ahead unless the development was right, she said.
This will be a Lysnar Valley community of the future, a development that my mother, sister and my own family will look out on to. It has to be right. We have kept the whole concept as green and environmentally-sensitive as possible. more

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Neighbourhood Anger
Gisborne Herald Article Monday, 15 June 2009
By Martin Gibson

UNHAPPY VALLEY:
Lysnar Valley and Wainui residents are not keen on having another 40 houses on small sections on land currently zoned rural residential.
 

Wainui is not "about to spread inland" if residents living in the Lysnar Valley and surrounding area have anything to do with it.
They are responding to a proposal by one of their neighbours, Kate Fraser, to develop a subdivision in their valley.
She is applying for a zone change from rural residential to residential for an 8.5 hectare block her family have owned for more than 40 years in order to subdivide it into 42 sections.

An article in The Gisborne Herald suggesting that Wainui was about to spread inland has drawn an angry response from neighbours.
The Lysnar Valley is one of the areas the district council has flagged for urban development in its urban development strategy.
Even though the zone change has yet to be notified, they have already sent copies of a letter opposing it to Gisborne District Council's planning division.
"It would change the zoning that has been in place since 1921, and would set a precedent for more satellite suburbia stuck out on the fringes of the city, a concept that is really falling apart in the States," says Larry Prosor, who has a 10.9-hectare block overlooking the area, which he has subdivided in accordance with a rural residential zoning.
"I wouldn't be opposed to a well thought-out subdivision, but land that is zoned general residential allows sections as small as 800 square metres."

Wainui residents Greg and Huia Judd purchased one of Mr Prosor's sections to get away from tightly-packed houses.
"When we first started looking at land we knew it would get developed here, but we thought it would stay rural residential - we shifted from Wairere Road to get a little more privacy – it's a nice little valley," says Mr Judd.
The look of the valley has already been affected by overhead power lines installed by the Frasers. Although the article on the proposed subdivision suggested it would be a "soft development", the proposed density of housing next to Hamanatua Stream, coupled with the lack of sewage reticulation, concerns other residents. more

Proposed Zone Change in Lysnar Valley
Article supplied by Lysnar Valley Resident
If approved, this could set a precedent that affects dramatically the way Wainui will become in the future. From the 416 submissions lto Council last year, the general theme was "To protect the existing "special character" of this area.

A letter of concern was recently circulated to Lysnar Valley and Lysnar Road residents, outlining some affects and giving people an opportunity to respond, by sending a signed copy to the GDC.

A zoning change in the Lysnar Valley to high density housing would set in motion a precedent we feel is unacceptable to our community.  If you agree with the negative impacts outlined in the response letter please sign it and send it to: ,
Kim Smith, Gisborne District Council, Box 747, Gisborne. 867 2049 x 8751, kim@gdc.govt.nz. 
If you wish to write your own opinion letter, please do so.

 Time is of the essence on your response.  The sooner you respond the better our chances are of  keeping the Lysnar Valley a beautiful rural setting and stop the negative effects of high density housing that would affect many in the neighborhood.
Please help to make others aware of this proposal.  The more opinion letters to Kim Smith at the Gisborne District Council the better.

To view letter:gap full letter
gap Lysnar Letter to GDC.doc
gap Lysnar Letter to GDC.pdf

Some of the points covered:
-General Residential zoning should be kept closer to urban areas and not placed like an urban island in the middle of a beautiful rural valley setting.
-41 additional houses would add a heavy increase in traffic on narrow Lysnar Road.
-Supply of power to this subdivision should be underground,  overhead lines are not acceptable
-Recent estimates show that at the current rate of growth in the Gisborne City area, there is presently nearly a 20 year supply of sections already in existence.
-Myland Holdings proposal seems to rely heavily on the Gisborne District Council’s Plan Change 37, identifying the “possibility of residential rezoning of the land”.  Last year, the Gisborne District Council withdrew Plan Change 37. 

Proposed Wainui-Okitu Residents Association
Let us know your views.
A survey form was dropped in Wainui Beach letter boxes in May 09, if you missed getting it you can download it here, and simply email back to: info@wainuibeach.org.nz

Download survey form:
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