The Dhamma Medini Vipassana Centre would like to thank you for your fantastic effort with our petition. We are almost at 12,000 signatures.
If you have time, we would appreciate it if you would also fill out a submission opposing resource consent being granted to the Auckland Shooting Club (ASC) to operate a 5-bay shooting range between the hours of 6 am to 8 pm Monday to Saturday and from 9 am to 6 pm on Sunday 365 days of the year.
Submissions carry a lot of weight, and will help our efforts to Save Our Vipassana Centre! It really is a numbers game.
HOW TO SUBMIT – Submissions close January 12th 2024:
1. You can read more about ASC's application and submit your submission in opposition here via the Auckland Council website.
2 a. A submission template has been provided for you here, (and copied below), to download, fill out and attach to the online form; or
2 b. The prompts in the submission template can be used to fill out the online form.
SUBMISSION LETTER TEMPLATE
To: Auckland Council
Resource Consents
Private Bag 92300
Auckland 1142
Attention: Team Leader – Planning
From: [name]
[address]
[email]
[date]
Submission: 287 Tuhirangi Road, Kakanui – Auckland Shooting Club Inc - application number LUC60419114 , LUS60425595, DIS60424905
This submission is made by [submitter name]
Submission in opposition
I oppose the application by the Auckland Shooting Club Inc to establish a shooting range at 287 Tuhirangi Road, Kakanui, and request the application be declined. Vipassana meditation is learned by attending a ten-day residential course. Meditators spend most of that time meditating in silence.
The peaceful atmosphere of the Meditation Centre is conducive and an important requirement to the practice of Vipassana Meditation. Establishing a Shooting Club in the vicinity of the Meditation Centre, with the frequency of gunfire noise would be incompatible with the silent meditation activities.
[OPTIONAL: OUTLINE WHETHER YOU HAVE ATTENDED A VIPASSANA COURSE AT DHAMMA MEDINI AND HOW MANY COURSES]
[OPTIONAL: REASONS WHY YOU ATTENDED THE COURSE AND WISHED TO LEARN MEDITATION, COULD INCLUDE THE NUMBER OF COURSES ATTENDED, AND HOW LONG YOU HAVE BEEN MEDITATING]
[OPTIONAL: OUTLINE IF YOU HAVE HEARD SHOTS, AND DISCUSS THE IMPACT THAT IT HAS/ WILL HAVE ON YOUR PRACTICE]
[OPTIONAL: OUTLINE THE IMPORTANCE OF HAVING A PEACEFUL AND QUIET ENVIRONMENT TO MEDITATE IN]
[OPTIONAL: OUTLINE HERE, ANYTHING ELSE YOU THINK IS RELEVANT]
Relief sought
I seek that the application be declined. I am not a trade competitor of the applicant. The submitter does [does not] wish [NOTE delete one] to be heard in respect of this submission. If others make a similar submission, the submitter will consider presenting a joint case.
Yours faithfully,