2.4 Sustainable Management Strategy

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Published: Wednesday, 28 January 2009 16:19 | Print | Email

2.4. SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT STRATEGY
Outcome Sought (Objectives)		Solutions (Policies)		Implementation (Methods) Refer to the following sets of controls and reasons for chosen methods	Explanations and Reasons for Objectives and Policies
1.	Residential and rural-residential growth
O1	To avoid inappropriate residential and ruralresidential growth in the rural environment so as to protect the use of the District’s rural land resource for rural production.	P1 P2 P3	To direct and ensure consolidation of residential development within appropriate existing zone boundaries of all settlements subject to the availability of infrastructure services, contiguous growth and the constraints of the environment. To manage the orderly and programmed expansion of residential areas consistent with the relevant structure plan and the ability to provide utility services. To encourage and direct rural-residential development to establish in defined Rural- Residential zones, where the effects and servicing requirements of such development can be managed.	Activity Table, Section 2 Performance Standards, Section 5 Subdivison, Section 6 Other Methods, Section 13	Council aims to achieve residential consolidation wherever practicable, subject to servicing constraints and the community’s acceptance of changing amenity values. Structure plans have been developed which recognise that where growth is occurring and consolidation is not feasible that expansion is managed in an integrated manner. The Plan aims to ensure that land is not fragmented such that it limits the productive use of the rural land resource.
2.	Controlling Activities
O1	To manage activities in a manner that gives certainty to the public as to the potential location and effects of activities.	P1	To implement effective separation between incompatible activities while recognising that some existing activities may not be able to provide effective separation within their sites. To recognise the effect activities may have on indigenous vegetation and habitat of indigenous fauna.	Development Controls, Section Section 3 Performance Standards, Section 5 Other Methods, Section 13	In some cases mitigation of adverse effects by isolating buffer areas will be a means of gaining a resource consent. The establishment of buffer areas may be implemented to protect the community from the activity and the activity from future incompatible activities. It is acknowledged that many activities such as intensive farming operations, rural contractors, quarries, equine based activities and infrastructure networks/sites require a rural location and can be considered as part of a rural environment depending on the locality and subject to adverse effects being avoided, remedied or mitigated. It is further acknowledged that some activities are dependent on resource location.
O2	To sustainably manage the natural resources of indigenous biodiversity for ecological, landscape, heritage and natural feature value.	P2
O3	To recognise that the rural environment is primarily a place for rural production activities while also providing for a variety of other activities, including rural lifestyle, intensive farming, rural based industry and significant infrastructure networks and sites, which are dependent on a rural location.	P3	Activities should not establish in rural areas unless they are able to be undertaken without constraining the lawful operation of existing activities.
3.	TANGATA WHENUA
O1	To maintain and encourage kaitiaki responsibility (guardianship) of Maori by implementing a partnership approach to the sustainable management of the District's natural and physical resource.	SP1	To establish a joint Council/Iwi management process for considering and resolving resource management issues and policy.	Activity Table, Section 2 Other Methods, Section 13	The joint Council/Iwi establishment and agreement of policy should mean that the Iwi issues and concerns are appropriately dealt with at the level of individual resource consents.
4.	BUSINESS
O1	To protect identified central business areas from activities that are out of character with existing amenity values.	P1	To avoid the development of activities which adversely affect the character of the "mainstreet" shopping environmen	Development Controls, Section 3 Performance Standards, Section 5 Subdivision, Section 6 Other Methods, Section 13 Monitoring, Section14	The objective seeks to maintain and enhance the three mainstreets at Te Aroha, Morrinsville and Matamata in conjunction with community programmes. The policy aims to protect the functional aspects of mainstreet buildings that promote recreational/shopping amenity values. It is anticipated that service/light industrial activities in mainstreet areas will be inappropriate.
O2	To achieve neighbourhood nodes in appropriate locations to provide local-scale convenience.	P2	Subdivision and development should provide Neighbourhood Nodes in general accordance with a structure plan and within walking distance of their residential catchments. The Neighbourhood Node should be a scale, form and include activities consistent with surrounding residential areas, serve a local convenience function for new or growing residential areas and avoid compromising the viability and vitality of a town centre.	Development Controls, Section 3 Activity Related Performance Standards, Section 4. Performance Standards, Section 5 Subdivision, Section 6	The objective and policy seeks to encourage the development of neighbourhood convenience nodes to provide for the day to day needs of residents within growing residential areas of the District's towns. Neighbourhood nodes are identified in appropriate locations on structure plans.
5.	INDUSTRY
O1	To enable the orderly and coherent development of processing and extractive industry in a manner that promotes the sustainable management of natural and physical resources in the rural areas.	P1	The adverse effects of processing and extractive industries should be avoided, remedied or mitigated in accordance with the amenity values of the adjacent community	Development Controls, Section 3 Performance Standards, Section 5	The objective and policy implements the strategy of protecting the District's high quality soils, and allowing diversification in the economy. The reduction, avoidance or mitigation of effects is a prerequisite of all industrial development and specified zones limits the degree of potential adverse effects on the community. The existing serviced industrial sites have separation from residential areas and the opportunity for buffer areas. Zones facilitate centralisation of activity and offers economies of scale in the provision of infrastructure services and facilities.
*ANTICIPATED ENVIRONMENTAL RESULTS* Contiguous, orderly expansion of residential zoning onto the finite good quality soils. A reduction in the number of complaints from the public concerning the adverse effects of activities. The management of the District through the principles of partnership. The establishment of industry within zones and the allowance on a case by case basis of extractive industries with minimal industrial development out of zone. Significant natural and physical resources will not be unreasonably compromised by the introduction of new incompatible activities in the vicinity.

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