According to the Royal Commission’s report, several main challenges are facing the new city council, its associated institutions, and its planning and policy instruments. The first challenge is ‘to address the inefficiencies’, the second one is ‘to ensure effective service delivery through a united governance structure’, the third challenge is ‘to address the poor history of Auckland’s infrastructure development and to have greater community involvement’, and the fourth challenge is the problems generated by population growth. Population growth increases in a rapid speed in Auckland. And According to Dr Bruce Hucker’s report, the population of Auckland can achieve to two million by the year of 2031. It is all about the populations that concerns. People need food, clothes, and shelter to satisfy their basic needs. And further more would be pressure on social and physical infrastructure. How to manage limitless development demand within a limit resource circumstance, how to resolve the conflicts between development and environment, how to shorten the gap between the rich and the poor, how to ensure the equity and the equality, how to maintain well-being in economic, social, cultural, and environmental context, how to allocate the funding for local boards, how to resolve education problems, how to change the actuality that already existed, such as household crowding, how to do their duty efficiently for both governing body and local boards, how to improve the living standard of Aucklanders, and how to enhance the quality of life in Auckland region, all of these problems are contributed by rapid population growth.
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