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Resolution number DIS/2015/16
MOVED by Member D McKenzie, seconded by Member J Farrar:
That the Disability Advisory Panel:
a)
thank Lisa Dunshea for her presentation
on the Urban Design Panel.
b)
request a response as to how the Urban
Design Panel ensures that all disability perspectives are adequately covered
in an assessment of accessibility when they consider applications.
c)
note the contents of the May 2014 paper
from the Urban Design Panel regarding the need for expertise and research,
and looks forward to ongoing regular contact with the Urban Design Panel.
d)
further note that people with
disabilities, including age-related impairment, make up around 23% of
Auckland’s population and that these people have diverse and complex needs
that call for design and engineering expertise, solutions-based research, and
knowledge of impairment and its implications for accessibility.
e)
draw the Urban Design Panel’s attention
to the interim joint report: “Access to buildings for people with
disabilities”, June 2014 (Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment and
Office for Disability Issues), and request the Urban Design Panel to respond
to points 7.1 to 7.6 of this interim report.
f)
note that given that the long-term
outcome sought by Auckland Council is a “liveable and sustainable” region,
ask the Urban Design Panel for comment on the promulgation, applicability and
integration of Universal Design Principles and the principle of Reasonable
Accommodation into practice. These principles are set out in a letter to the
Chief Executive of Auckland Council on the region’s long-term plan and
budgets dated April 2015.
CARRIED
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