Draft Plan Change 21 - Urban Environment Updates

Status

This plan change has been rescoped to align with Proposed Plan Change 26 - Residential Zone Intensification.

What is plan change 21?

Draft Plan Change 21 broadly aims to improve functionality throughout the district’s urban environments. It incorporates a variety of changes, including several ruled out of scope through the substantive hearing process for Plan Change 26 (Residential Zone Intensification).

What we’re doing?

• Urban Design
  Refinement and strengthening of District Plan provisions relating to urban design.
• Transportation
  Developing District Plan provisions to limit the effects of development on strategic transportation corridors (e.g., urban mobility networks, cycleways) and support sustainable transportation options through the provision of on-site facilities (e.g., bicycle parking, end-of-trip facilities, electric vehicle charging stations).
• Rezoning of Properties along Golf Road and Kihikihi Road
  Rezoning several properties along the intersection of Golf and Kihikihi Road from Rural to Large Lot Residential to better reflect existing use. The current zoning of these sites as Rural is an “anomaly” that was carried over from the last district plan review and never corrected.
• Secondary dwellings
  Revising and clarifying the rules around secondary dwellings and sleepouts in recognition of the growing popularity of transportable and “tiny” homes as an affordable housing option.
• Additional character clusters
  Introducing protections for areas in urban Cambridge and Te Awamutu identified as having significant historically-derived character.
• Railways effects management
  Including provisions to manage health, amenity, and reverse sensitivity effects potentially arising from the near proximity of rail and new residential activities.
• Community corrections facilities
  Adding a definition and activity status for “community corrections facilities” within the Commercial zone. Community corrections activities include non-custodial service centres and community work facilities. It is proposed to provide for community corrections facilities within the District Plan either as a permitted activity or via another consenting pathway.
• Differentiated Commercial zoning framework
  Current Commercial zone provisions are largely generic across the district, however each of the district’s Commercially-zoned areas varies considerably by scale, appearance, and use-intensity. As such, Council is investigating the possibility of establishing a differentiated Commercial zoning framework, with provisions reflecting the specific attributes of each commercial area.

Indicative timeframe