Much Work Involved In Town Planning Scheme
An outline of the work required to prepare a district planning scheme for Christchurch was given to the City Council last evening in a report by the City Engineer (Mr E. Somers). He said the council had authority to prepare the scheme in two sections —zoning first and the remainder.
In assessing the time for preparation for the zoning scheme, there were two sides of the question to be considered —the maps and the clauses, Mr Somers said. The mechanical work involved in preparing the maps was somewhat complex, as all varying districts had to be legally defined. That infant that all the properties adjacent to the various boundaries must be searched, shown on the maps and legally described, and the plan and description legally defined.
He estimated that provided there were no delays or changes the work could, with the addition of two draughtsmen, he completed in not more than six months.
“Preparation of the zoning section involves much more than the preparation of the plans,” he continued “The code of ordinances must also be drawn up- The specimen is given in the regulations, but it is assumed that the council will not wish to follow it slavishly. “For instance, there is a predominant and a conditional use. If the council wishes to permit the conditional use in the particular zone, it must go through a long procedure of advertising and giving notice. For this reason, it may well be that some of the conditional uses should be treated
as predominant uses. This, in itself, makes a very close studyot the varying uses essential. The zoning, to be effective, must include land subdivision*! standards.”
Mr Somers said there were many other points which must be investigated—height restrictions, coverage and courts, density, and off-street parking requirements being some. All and many others required close consideration by the council’s town-planning committee, and it seemed that many special meetings would be required. All his remarks were on the assumption that the maps would be prepared on the basis of the old metropolitan scheme as amended from time to time by the council, he said. It was not planning in the proper sense that the plan was built up on the most recent survey of existing conditions and of known factors, together with properly estimated factors for the future. To that extent the plan would always be challenged in “public interests by, for the instance, the Minister, he said.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19570430.2.143
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28264, 30 April 1957, Page 15
Word count
Tapeke kupu
413Much Work Involved In Town Planning Scheme Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28264, 30 April 1957, Page 15
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
Ngā mihi
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.