Letters to the editor: Rejuvenation of CBD won't happen until parking sorted

Parking in Tauranga CBD. Photo / File

I write in support of J Baker concerning the lack of parking in the CBD.

It's a curious fact that with the few remaining shops there are to support, there are even fewer car parking spaces available.

I remember when the CBD was a thriving busy and bustling place, yet I always seemed to find a parking space.

Now I can't, not even in the parking space behind the regional council building, anywhere in Grey St, and with difficulty in the carpark building in Durham St, owing to the floors of reserved parking. I am now forced to shop elsewhere, and I am not alone.

While I look forward to the rejuvenation of the CBD and supporting the CBD shops again, I don't believe it will happen until parking issues are resolved and reserved for the use of shoppers.

Meg Butler
Mount Maunganui

Understanding parenting

This lead article (News, July 20) deals mainly with the values that some young children have gained prior to them being enrolled in preschool or primary school, and the mayhem that they then cause to the other young people they are with, and the adults trying to assist them all.

While at this stage of their life they all may look human, the behaviour of these children is anything but, although all were born with human and social potentials.

Parents, through the examples they set, demonstrate and encourage while nurturing their young, either help them develop either of the two qualities they inherited – those making them better human or social individuals, or the selfish survival animal instincts based on selfishness, greed and lack of consideration for others.

Throughout history, society hasn't seen the need for helping all parents gain the understanding needed, nor ensuring that the whole environment they provide, increasingly encourages the development of these qualities.

Hugh Hughes
Mount Maunganui

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