August 2016
Auckland Unitary Plan decided

Auckland Council completed decisions on the Independent Hearings Panel recommendations on the Auckland Unitary Plan today.

The Governing Body decisions are summarised below
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More detailed information on what was debated today can be found in the agenda available on Auckland Council’s website. The meeting minutes with a full summary of decisions will be added once confirmed.
This meeting was also webcast on the council’s website and items are available on demand.

The Governing Body reconvened with decisions on part D 7.8.1 – Water quality and quantity, lakes, rivers and streams, aquifers and ground water and discharges of stormwater and wastewater.

Decision Summary
046/047/048/049 – Water
The Governing Body rejected the Panel’s recommendations in relation to:
• deleting permitted activity land use rule for stormwater runoff into the stormwater network and combined sewer network.
• amending a permitted activity status for sites that do not discharge to a stream or discharge below RL 2m in a Stormwater Management Areas Flow.
• amending the activity status for roads within a Stormwater Management Areas Flow.
• deleting the default activity status for roads/motorways within a Stormwater Management Areas Flow not meeting the standards.
• amending general standards to apply to sites and roads.
• amending the hydrology mitigation requirements for some roading projects.
• deleting of the definition “Redevelopment of a road”.
065 – Definitions
The Governing Body rejected Panel’s recommendations in relation to:
• amending the definition of height makes the structures exempted from the definition subject to width and height limits that are unworkable for some structures.

Report backs to the Governing Body
The Governing Body heard further information on topics from council staff so decisions could be made on the following:
010 - Historic Heritage
• The Governing Body adopted the Panel’s recommendation to delete the policies which seek to protect and manage unscheduled significant historic heritage.
• To adopt the alternative solution for including the Symonds Street flats into the Schedule of Historic Heritage.

077 - Sustainable Design
• The Governing Body adopted the Panel’s recommendation to delete the Auckland-wide objectives, policies and rules for sustainable design.

080 - Rezoning and precincts (General), and 081 Rezoning and Precincts (Geographic areas) and 016 and 017 – Rural Urban Boundary (RUB) - NORTH
The Governing Body:
• rejected the Panel’s recommendations relating to the extension of the Rural Urban Boundary north of the Vaughans Road ridgeline into the Okura catchment at a location to the east of Okura village.
• rejected the Panel’s recommendations relating to the application of a new precinct to the land north of Vaughans Road, Okura and rezoning approximately 30ha of land from Countryside Living to Mixed Housing Suburban, Large Lot, Open Space Conservation and Open Space – Informal Recreation.
• Rejects the Panel’s recommendation in relation to the rezoning of approximately 30ha of land from Countryside Living to Future Urban zone on land to the north of Vaughans Road/east of Okura Village for the reasons outlined in a) above.
• amend the minimum and minimum average net site areas to include a minimum net site area and average net site area without transferable rural site subdivision, of 4ha to land known as Okura East.
• added the Control: Subdivision Variation Control - Rural, Okura East Countryside Living to the land know as Okura East.

059 to 063 – Residential zones
• The Governing Body rejected the Panel’s recommendations for the deletion of front fence rule and deleting policies relating to streetscape from the Single House, Mixed Housing Suburban, Mixed Housing Urban and Terrace House and Apartment Building zones.

075 - Waitakere Ranges
• The Governing Body adopted the Panel’s recommendations for removal of some activities where they are managed by bylaws, where they are unnecessary or where they are managed by other rules.

043/044 -Transport
• The Governing Body rejected the Panel’s recommendations regarding amending the parking rates – (Metropolitan Centre, Town Centre, Local Centre and Mixed Use zones and Terrace Housing and Apartment Building zone) to remove maximum and minimum parking rates for all activities within these zones with the exception of retail and commercial service activities (minimum parking rate only).

• The Governing Body rejected Panel’s recommendations on Parking rates for residential and non-residential parking rates in the City Centre of 1:125m2 for non-residential activities within a proposed ‘Outer core’ parking area while applying a rate of 1:200m2 within a proposed ‘Inner core’ parking area. A maximum rate of 1.5 car parks per dwelling (regardless of dwelling size) is proposed for residential activities

042 – Infrastructure
• The Governing Body adopted the Panel’s recommendations on the deletion of the High Land Transport Noise Overlay and associated provisions, the deletion of a policy referring to the avoidance of designations in the road corridor.

• The Governing Body rejected the Panel’s recommendations regarding increasing the extent of the National Grid corridor overlay, as it relates to an area of 32m each side of 110kv lines and 37m each side of the centreline of 220kv lines depicted in the National Grid Overlay.

ENDS

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