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Unitary Plan
Committee
08 September
2015
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Work programme
for rezoning and precincts
File No.: CP2015/18260
Purpose
1. To provide an update on the next
phase of mediation and hearings and seek the committee’s endorsement of a
proposed work programme for rezoning and precinct submissions. The report also
recommends that the relevant planning managers within the Plans and Places
department are delegated the authority to agree to changes to precincts in the
Proposed Auckland Unitary Plan (Unitary Plan) that are consistent with the
current objectives and policies in the Unitary Plan.
Executive
Summary
2. The Unitary Plan hearings
process commenced last September. Initial mediations and hearings focused on
the Regional Policy Statement chapter of the Unitary Plan, and were followed by
mediation and hearings on the Regional Coastal Plan chapter and other regional
plan and district plan topics. Forty-four hearings have now been completed and
an additional 12 hearings on topics that have relevance across Auckland are due
to be completed by early November.
3. The final phase of mediation and
hearings commences in November 2015 and is programmed to be completed by the
end of April 2016. This final phase will deal with submissions on designations,
the Rural Urban Boundary, rezoning, precincts and the Special/Historic
Character/Pre-1944 overlay. A large proportion of the submissions on these
topics are by individuals with an interest in the specific provisions of the
Unitary Plan that related to their property. Analysis of the submission on
these topics is currently underway.
4. This report sets out a proposed
work programme for the committee. The programme has been developed to ensure
the council is able to confirm its position in response to the submissions on
these topics at mediation and the hearings. Given the sheer volume of
submission points on detailed site/area-specific provisions in the Unitary Plan
(i.e. precincts), the report also recommends that the relevant council planning
managers are delegated the authority to agree to changes to precincts where
those changes are consistent with the current objectives and policies in the
Unitary Plan. There are approximately 5,700 submission points relating to 121 existing precincts and 552 submission points relating to 168 new
precincts.
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Recommendation/s
That the Unitary Plan
Committee:
a) endorses
the work programme set out in Attachment 1 to the agenda report.
b) delegates
to the General Manager - Plans and Places, Unitary Plan Manager and the three
Area Planning Unit Managers, the authority to agree to changes to
precincts in the Proposed Auckland Unitary Plan where those changes are
consistent with the current objectives and policies in the Proposed Auckland
Unitary Plan.
c) requests that the Unitary Plan Manager reports the
key changes agreed to under recommendation b) to the Unitary Plan Committee
in March/April 2016.
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Comments
5. Attachment A sets out a proposed
work programme for the committee. The programme has been developed to ensure
the council is able to confirm its position in response to the submissions at
mediation and the hearings. The programme also recognises the challenges a
number of the planning teams face dealing with rezoning and precinct
submissions in parallel with one another, while also preparing for hearings on
the Rural Urban Boundary.
6. In summary, the programme
involves a series of reports being presented to the committee in relation to
four broad groups of topics:
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Group
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Topic
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Date
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Group 1
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Auckland-wide
specific zones and precincts
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21 October
2015*
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Group 2
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Rezoning
Central and West
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10 November 2015
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Group 3
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Rezoning
South and North and Precincts Central and West
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24 November 2015
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Group 4
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Precincts
North and South
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9 December 2015
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NOTE: Due to time constraints, Public Open Space and Tertiary Education zone
and precinct submissions will be reported to the Auckland Development Committee
on 12 November 2015.
Group 1 – Auckland-wide specific zones and precincts
7. The Independent Hearings Panel
has split the rezoning and precinct submissions into two major hearing topics:
Auckland-wide (Topic 080) and Geographic (Topic 081). The Auckland-wide topic
includes submissions on Public Open Space zones and precincts, Coastal zones
and precincts and a range of Special Purpose zones and precincts (e.g. Tertiary
Education zone and Retirement Village zone). Mediation for these topics is
currently scheduled for November and the hearings in February next year.
8. Many of the submissions on these
topics are considered to be relatively straight-forward and uncontroversial,
however some of the submissions on the zoning or precincts relating to major
recreation facilities (e.g. stadiums), schools, tertiary education facilities
and public open space relate to matters of considerable public interest. The
work programme for the committee has been developed to ensure that these topics
are discussed with the committee prior to mediation.
Group 2 – Rezoning Central and West
9. There are several thousand
submission points that relate to zoning in Central and West Auckland. These
broad areas have been broken into smaller geographic areas to enable the
submissions to be carefully analysed against the zoning principles confirmed by
the Auckland Development Committee in May 2015. A series of maps showing the
current zoning in the Unitary Plan and proposed rezonings will be presented to
the committee for review and endorsement.
Group 3 – Rezoning South and North and Precincts Central
and West
10. As with Group 2, there are
several thousand submission points relating to zoning in South and North
Auckland. Again, these broad areas have been broken into small geographic areas
to assist with the analysis of submissions, and a series of maps will be
presented to the committee for review and endorsement.
11. With respect to the precincts in
this group, six existing precincts and one new precinct are considered to be of
high public interest. These precincts will be reported to the committee with
recommendations for any changes.
Group 4 – Precincts North and
South
12. Thirteen existing and eight new
precincts are considered to be of high public interest in this broad geographic
area and are proposed to be reported to the committee.
Delegations
13. There are approximately 5,700
submission points relating to 121 existing precincts and 552
submission points relating to 168 new precincts. Given the sheer scale
of the task involved in confirming the council’s position in response to the
precinct submissions, it is recommended that the relevant planning managers
within the Plans and Places Department are delegated the authority to agree to
changes to precincts where those changes are consistent with the current
objectives and policies in the Unitary Plan.
14. Any delegations agreed to by the
committee would be exercised with considerable caution and a record of all key
changes reported to the committee early in the New Year.
Consideration
Local
Board views and implications
15. The views of
local boards are able to be represented by the invitation extended to all local
board chairs to attend the Unitary Plan Committee.
Māori
impact statement
16. The recommendations made in this
report are not considered to have any specific impact on Māori.
Implementation
17. The recommendations made in this
report can be implemented within the existing Plans and Places department
budget.
Attachments
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No.
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Title
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8 September 2015, Unitary Plan Committee, Programme
for rezoning and precinct submissions.
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Signatories
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Author
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John Duguid - Manager Unitary Plan
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Authoriser
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Penny Pirrit – General Manager - Plans & Places
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