i'm seriously thinking that i could somehow shoot a line up to the top of the 50ft tall ugly floodlight poles with a sign of some sort attached to the end, then pull the sign up to fly in all its glory for the world to see. oh how to do it and what to write on the signs.....
i hate the poles, the one directly behind my house has to go. a neighbour sent a letter to the City Council about it but that all takes forever to get anything done about it. i'm of the opinion that they are there illegally but as the park is owned by the council and they put the resource consent thru to a hearing with their own employees (i think they are paid by the council) who make the decisions on the resource consent it all seems totally ridiculous why they bothered with the consent in the first place.
the council decided that the consent could go thru on a non-notification basis. seems stupid as the consent had to go to a hearing i'm guessing because the max height in the district plan is 10 metres, these are 16.5 metres tall but no one thot we might need to know about it in advance so we could object. the hearing excluded the public, from what i read mainly becuz there were no objections. now how can there be objections when no one was told about it? i think the poles should come done immediately until the proper process is fully gone thru with submissions from the public, ie the neighbouring residential property owners. i asked a park supervisor why they were not telescopic poles that could be retracted when not in use... 'too expensive!' they said. well these poles werent cheap for sure.
now... the sports club wants 3 more poles, this time for night games, consent was only for training. they also want a 10 metre higher fence (they already added an extra bit on top of normal 3 metre tall wire type see-thru fence) added on top. how high all that would be i've no idea, it is out of hand and mind boggling. they also want 3 metre high X 10 metre long seats at the west end of the field. i'm at the west end of the field. the seats would be on the same level as back of our propertys and our fences are the max allowed 2 metres high. so anyone sitting on them can see into our backyards, standing gives them an even better view of our homes and what we do in them.
ok, so there is no way they will get the seats. we dont need a higher ugly fence and we dont want any more poles for night games. night games will 'draw in' the unsavoury useless bored cretians who walk the streets at night with nothing better to do than get into trouble. when the 'training/games' finish and the lights go out those cretians will hang around in the park, essentially in our backyards leaving us unsafe in our own homes, doing who knows what til it is too late and the damage is done. i want those poles down now and then figure out what if anything can be done for those rugby players. i hate rugby even more now as a result of these poles.
so how do i get a banner/flag/sign up the pole and what should it say??? if they can play dirty so can i. fuming in the south pacific, j.