In 2014 I want Rotorua to ...

By Adriana Weber

Rotorua Daily Post·

4 Jan, 2014 01:00 AM4 mins to read

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Finish this sentence: In 2014 I want Rotorua to ...

Create something fun for younger people to do. Just somewhere for them to hang out, that's fun and cheap.
CHEYENNE ROBSON
Utuhina

Have more of a youth community and get those people causing trouble off the street.
BABE WHITE
Koutu

I want Rotorua's spirit to come alive.
WIRIHANA RANGIHAEATA TE RANGI
Rotoiti

Be free of thugs in town.
JANET ATKINSON
Springfield

Stop the shops closing so early.
ROSEMARY FLEMING
Reporoa

Fill more shops in the centre of town.
GRAEME SMITH
Rotorua Central

Get a permanent ice skating rink.
JILL WONG
Fenton Park

Have a busier main street. There needs to be more people in the middle of town.
HENRY LINGMAN
Lynmore

Have more playgrounds and a waterslide.
KEIGHLEY MCKENZIE
Glenholme

To have more of a focus on the environment.
ANDREW THOMAS
Ngongotaha

To become more exciting and to have more attractions to bring tourists to the city.
FRANS SCHAEFFERS
Westbrook

Get the riffraffs off the street.
JOSH MORGAN
Glenholme

Online views from Facebook:

In 2014 I want Rotorua to ...

LAKES:

- Make the council clean Lake Rotorua!

- The council to clean our lakes!

RECYCLING:

- get a recycling truck.

- Get a better rubbish system wheeley bins and recycling bins. None of that paper bags, it's ridiculous, what other town has this?

- provide free kerb/roadside recycling bins to be collected by the council.

- have a council roadside recycling collection service.

CRIME:

- Less kids with nothing better to do than fight in town and no shops selling synthetic cannabis

- be tougher on scumbag criminals. Zero tolerance.

- Get rid of all the hood rats that hang around our city like parasites.

- yeah, get rid of hood rats.

- I get embarrassed of all the 12+ year old kids who are just hanging out in cbd. They look like trouble ready to happen. We need stronger police presence moving them along or sending them home. Letting them hang out in town leads to too many wrong choices being made and temptation is just too great.

- as a local and frequintly in and around town and seeing alot of young teenagers around town thinking they are cool - find somethink that benefits them to become and change there ways of thinking and making gud choices for themselves.

- Yes the hood rats must go!

CBD:

- Actually have shops in the Rotorua CBD, and make it all safer.

- Decide once and for all what it is the town planners are doing to the inner city cbd now that they have successfully divided the town area, we have way too many empty shops!

- Have a safer CBD.

COMMUNITY:

- To be closer to each other instead of looking at each other like strangers.

- Make full use of our Whanau Ora services to strengthen families, which will effect change and assist in reducing those social problems referred to.

- Have the youth show more respect to all people waiting for the bus at the main bus stop. And to bring more jobs to Rotorua.

- Safe and be a diverse community.

- Stay as friendly and beautiful as always.

JOBS:

- have no unemployment.

- to have no unemployment.

RECREATION:

- build a skate rink.