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Country wide, communities are uniting to call for the House of Representatives to terminate Fast-Track developments that are outside local and district plans. Fast track is being used as a bypass across New Zealand for housing developers to push housing into out of zone land, in some cases land zoned as such to prevent destruction of environmentally sensitive land, including wetlands, rivers and waterways, floodplains, coastal and estuarine environments, and habitats of threatened and endangered species. Many of these areas were never intended for large-scale development and are protected for good reason.

Land can be purchased at a lower price because its zoning restricts development, then Fast Track is used to bypass those restrictions and enable large-scale housing, creating far greater profits margins than developing land that is already appropriately zoned. Don’t be fooled by the developer spin that this is simply about getting consents faster.

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Housing developers proposal to Fast Track the development of an ecologically significant peninsula in Matakana. The proposed development of the land will threaten the habitats of multiple species, including habitat of high extinction risk, Australasian Bittern (in the bird of the year), long tail bats and numerous skink/ Gecko populations.

Poster Screenshot is from Protect Matakana FB

RNZ article on one of NZ most endangered birds Bittern, that is threatened by Matakana fast track

From Protect Matakana post:

“The developers own ecological assessment identifies the potential for unavoidable loss of wetland habitat, along with potential impacts on watercourses and native wildlife.

Despite this, the development is being promoted with claims of environmental benefits through planting and wetland restoration.

Claims of future planting cannot justify the loss of ecological value in existing, established habitats. Do they expect us to believe these claims when their own research appears to tell a very different story? “

⬆️Post from Protect Matakana on Facebook.

Housing developers proposal to Fast Track the development of an ecologically significant peninsula in Matakana. The proposed development of the land will threaten the habitats of multiple species, including habitat of high extinction risk, Australasian Bittern (in the bird of the year), long tail bats and numerous skink/ Gecko populations.

From Protect Matakana post:

“The developers own ecological assessment identifies the potential for unavoidable loss of wetland habitat, along with potential impacts on watercourses and native wildlife.

Despite this, the development is being promoted with claims of environmental benefits through planting and wetland restoration.

Claims of future planting cannot justify the loss of ecological value in existing, established habitats. Do they expect us to believe these claims when their own research appears to tell a very different story? “