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Proposed City Plan - Notified 17 October 2009

• Factsheets
  • 150 Seventeenth Avenue 
  • Amenity Values (Noise, Lighting, Signage) 
  • Bayfair Re-zoning
  • Baypark (Special Use Zone) 
  • Built Heritage, Archaeological & Maori Sites 
  • City Centre Zone 
  • City Living Zone 
  • Coastal Hazard Erosion Plan Areas 
  • Earthworks
  • Flood Hazard Plan Area 
  • Greerton Town Centre  
  • Hastings Road Zone Change 
  • Hazardous Substances and Contaminated Land
  • Height Controls in High Density Zone - Mount Maunganui
  • Heritage and Notable Trees (Protected Trees)
  • High Voltage Transmission Line 
  • Kennedy Road Zone Change 
  • Matapihi Papakainga & Rural Marae Zones
  • Natural Features (Important Amenity Landscapes)
  • Natural Features (Outstanding Natural Features and Landscapes)
  • Northwest Bethlehem Zone Change 
  • Rudolf Steiner School (Education Centre Zone 3) 
  • Rural Residential 
  • Rural Zone Provisions 
  • Special Ecological Area (Category 1)
  • Special Ecological Area (Category 2)
  • Subdivision, Infrastructure, & Services 
  • Suburban Residential Zone 
  • Tauranga Adventist (Education Centre Zone 4) 
  • Te Reti
  • Transportation 
  • Welcome Bay (Re-zoning) 

• Section 32 Reports and Referenced Reports

        Chapter 4 - General

• Transportation:
• Section 32 Report (183kb)
  • Review of District Plan Parking Requirements- Traffic Design Group (1.2mb)
• Amenity Provisions:
• Section 32 Report
  • Port of Tauranga District Plan Review Noise Controls- Hegley Acoustics (670kb)
  • Review of District Plan Noise Controls- Marshall Day Acoustics (1.4mb)
• Earthworks:
• Section 32 Report (138kb)
  • The Design of Slopes for Permanent Residential Development (1mb)
  • RELIC Slip Study (6mb)
  • Tauranga Storm Event Study (2.1mb)

        Chapter 5 - Natural Environment

• Section 32 Report (230kb)
  • Wildlands Consultants Ltd. (2008) Indigenous Biodiversity of Tauranga City State of the Environment Reporting- Updated 2009 (396kb)
  • Wildlands Consultants Ltd. (2008) District Plan Provisions Relating to 
    Indigenous Biodiversity of Tauranga City (Part A: A Review of District Plan Effectiveness) (26mb)

        Chapter 6 - Natural Features and Landscapes

• Trees Content (100kb)
• Section 32 Report (365kb)
  • Boffa Miskell (2009) Tauranga City Landscape Study, Part A (60mb)
  • Boffa MIskell (2009) Tauranga City Landscape Study, Part B (62mb)

        Chapter 7 - Heritage

• Section 32 Report
  • Archaeological Sites - NZHPT Info (2mb)
  • Built Heritage:
    • Contents (63kb)
  • Heritage Trees:
    • Heritage Trees Contents (63kb)
    • Trees (including Notable in Chapter 6) (4.2mb)
  • Maori Heritage:
    • Contents (46kb)

        Chapter 8 - Natural Hazards

• Section 32 Report (335kb)
  • Tonkin & Taylor (2008) Reassesment of the Tauranga Disctrict Inundation Levels (25mb)
  • Tonkin & Taylor (2009) Tauranga Harbour Inundation Assesment - Overland Inundation Mapping (3.7mb)
  • Tonkin & Taylor (2009) Coastal Erosion Hazard Zone Update Tauranga Open Coast (36mb)
  • CHEPA Guidlines (392kb)

        Chapter 9 - Hazardous Substances

• Section 32 Report (211kb)
  • URS August 2009- Review of Draft Tauranga City Plan Provisions for Contaminated Soils/ Hazardous Substances

        Chapter 10 - Network Utilities and Designations

• Section 32 Report (290kb)

        Chapter 11 - Financial Contributions

• Section 32 Report (180kb)

        Chapter 12 - Subdivision, Services and Infrastructure

• Section 32 Report (200kb)

        Chapter 13 - Open Space Zones

• Section 32 Report (166kb)

        Chapter 14 - Residential Zones

• Section 32 Report- Residential (384kb)
• Section 32 Report- City Living  (207kb)
  • SmartGrowth Strategy - Revised (2007) (4.7mb)
  • SmartGrowth and Neil Gray Management Issues Report ( 1.2mb)
  • City Centre Strategy (2007) (18.6mb)
  • Smart Living Places Draft Strategy (2006) (4.7mb)
  • Tauranga City Living Neighbourhood Workshops- May 2009 (1mb)
  • Tauranga City Living 4-7th Avenue Neighbourhood Options Workshop -June 2008 (5.7mb)
  • Tauranga City Living Mission - McLean Neighbourhood Options Workshop -June 2008 (6.9mb)
  • Tauranga City Living Selwyn Street Neighbourhood Options Workshop- June 2008 (8.5mb)
  • Tauranga CBD Strategy City Centre Living Workshops Summary Workshop Findings (August 2008) (6.3mb)
  • Tauranga City Living Feedback November 2008 (7.8mb)
  • Hasting Road Land Suitability (817kb)
  • Hastings Road Archaeological Survey (1.5mb)
  • Nothwest Bethlehem Land Suitability (893kb)
  • Northwest Bethlehem Archaeological Survey (1.2mb)
  • Northwest Bethlehem Transportation Assesment (2.5mb)
  • Kennedy Road Archaeological Survey (1.4mb)
  • Kennedy Road- Transport  Assesment (1.6mb)
  • Plan Change 48- Case Studies of the Effects of Commercialisation- Along Arterial Roads (11mb)

        Chapter 15 - Rural Residential Zones

• Section 32 Report (1mb)
  • Aurecon- Rezoning of Land on Tara Road (4.2mb)

        Chapter 16 - Rural Zones

• Section 32 Report (409kb)

        Chapter 17 - Commercial Zones

• Section 32 Report- Commercial (2.8mb)
• Section 32 Report - City Centre (176kb)
  • Tauranga CBD Integration Tool (2005) (4.4mb)
  • City Centre Strategy (2007) (18.6mb)
  • City Centre Actions and District Plan Review Responses Discussion Paper(2008) (2mb)
  • Barker & Associates Planning Issues and Response Position Paper (2008) (1mb)
  • Waterfront Redevelopment Scoping Report (2008) (1mb)
  • Tauranga City Centre Assessment of Built Form and Future Investment Report (2009) (7.1mb)
  • Property and Economics Retail and Commercial Strategy (6.1mb)
  • Retail and Commercial Strategy Peer Review (2008) (1mb)
  • Western BOP Retail and Commercial Strategy - Implementation Paper (1mb)
  • TDG Centres Based Approach to Commercial Development (556kb)
  • Te Reti Transportation Analysis 2008 (1.8mb)
  • Te Reti Transportation Analysis 2009 (1.4mb)

        Chapter 18 - Industrial Zones

• Section 32 Report (710kb)
  • BECA Industrial Land Study (2mb)
  • SmartGrowth Western BOP June 2006- Review of Business Land Requirements (370kb)
  • Aeronautical Study of Increasing Port Heights (1mb)

        Chapter 19 - Education Centre Zones

• Section 32 Reports (145kb)
• Adventist School:
  • Supporting Information for Section 32 Reports (10mb)
• Bethlehem:
  • BECA- Elder Estate Rezoning AEE July 2009 (578kb)
• Rudolph Steiner School- Welcome Bay:
  • BECA- Plan Change Report January 2009 (359kb)
  • BECA- Plan Change Report January 2009- Appendix 3 (386kb)
  • BECA -Landscape and Visual Assessment November 2008 (5mb)
  • BECA- Landscape and Visual Assessment November -Appendix 1,2,4 (704kb)
  • BECA - Landscape and Visual Assessment November- Appendix 3 Photos (2.5mb)
  • BECA - Drainage Report October 2008 (104kb)
  • BECA - Drainage Report October 2008- Appendix A (1mb)
  • BECA - Updated Preliminary Geotechnical Appraisal October 2008 (1mb)
  • BECA - Tauranga TIA February 2009 (4mb)

        Chapter 20 - Special Use Zones- Baypark  

• Section 32 Report
  • JP Styles Ltd. Acoustics & Vibration (2009) Special Use Zone Baypark Acoustic Considerations (524kb)

 Draft City Plan - March 2009

• Summary Document 

• Draft City Plan

  • Text
  • Planning Maps (PDF version)
  • Planning Maps Legend (pdf)

• Newsletters
  • January 2009
• Scoping Papers
  • Issues and Options Summary Paper, August 2008 
    • Detailed Issue & Option Papers are available under Proposed Chapter Changes.
• Workshops with Consultants
  • Residential/ Subdivision - 4 September 2008
  • Commercial/ Industrial - 11 September 2008