A vast majority of Harbour St businesses are in favour of pedestrian-only access to the Oamaru historic street, a Waitaki District Council survey shows.
After the adult artists had all but left the Oamaru Stone Symposium at Friendly Bay yesterday, children were still chiselling away at their blocks of limestone.
With a new minimum flow regime in effect, Waitaki irrigators and Meridian Energy signed an agreement last week to manage water levels in the lower Waitaki River.
The trust formed to protect the "extremely iconic and valuable" land in the Ohau, Mackenzie and Omarama basins is ready to put boots on the ground, its chairwoman says.
How it is decided whether to publicly notify a consent application in the Waitaki district will require further discussion, Waitaki Mayor Gary Kircher says.
The Mackenzie District Council expects a seamless switch when current planning and regulations manager Suzette van Aswegen assumes the council’s top job in November.