3.8 Transportation
3.8.1 Significant Resource Management Issues
- The urban areas are relatively free of significant parking, loading and vehicle access problems. The inappropriate location, design and use of property access has adversely affected the safe and efficient operation of state highways and arterial routes.
- Roads generate adverse effects particularly noise on State Highways. In some locations, roads with high vehicle counts can detrimentally affect the amenity values and function of the adjacent environment.
- Reliance on the motor vehicle generates adverse amenity, environmental and some social effects. Development of alternative passive transportation modes, particularly cycling will have environmental and socio-economic benefits. Council wishes to encourage cyclepaths throughout the District as an alternative means of transportation particularly in urban areas.
3.8.2 Transportation |
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Solutions (Policies) |
Implementation (Methods) Refer to the following sets of controls and reasons for chosen methods |
Explanations and Reasons for Objectives and Policies |
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O3
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O6
O7
O8 |
To protect or improve the safety and efficiency of the transportation networks,
To protect residential amenity from the effects of excessive traffic generation and on-street parking on residential streets.
To encourage self sufficiency in the provision of parking and loading spaces to avoid conflict with on-street usage.
To maximise safety and convenience for pedestrians and vehicular traffic on all sites.
The avoidance, remediation or mitigation of the adverse effects of transportation.
To encourage the provision of alternative transportation networks where it is clearly demonstrated that the provision of such networks will positively benefit and enhance the environment and community which they serve.
To ensure that those activities that place demands on the roading network contribute fairly to any works considered necessary to meet those demands.
To create a road system that provides for the safe, efficient and strategic movement of traffic (vehicular and pedestrian) in a manner that promotes the sustainable management of resources used. |
P1 | To ensure that access points and intersections have optimum visibility along the State Highway and are formed to appropriate design standards. |
Roads are a key means of mobility for people and goods. Roads, particularly State Highways, are a key factor in the maintenance and growth of the economy.
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| P2 | To ensure that the safety and efficiency of the state highways and district road networks are not compromised by proposed subdivision and/or development and the cumulative effect of subdivision and/or development. |
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| P3 | To maintain road safety and efficiency by requiring activities to provide adequate onsite parking and loading facilities for foreseeable future needs. |
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| P4 | To ensure that traffic safety is maintained by carefully managing the location and design of any signs visible from state highway and District roads. |
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| P5 | To manage unrelated through traffic on local roads to maintain and enhance the amenity values of the locality. |
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| P6 | To require landscaping within the transportation facilities or corridors where appropriate. |
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| P7 | To implement noise abatement measures along State highways, District arterials and airports. |
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| P8 | To avoid dust and noise nuisance by requiring formation, sealing and screening of parking and loading areas and access ways in residential, business and Industrial zones and Kaitiaki (Conservation) zones that adjoin an urban area. |
The objectives and policies seek to ensure that adequate on-site parking and roading facilities are provided to avoid conflicts with on street traffic movements and to maintain the safety and general amenity of street environments. Policy P13 and Objective O6 seek to address this amenity issue positively by seeking to encourage alternative transport modes. Discouraging inefficient and unsustainable roading developments. In the future Council wishes to ensure the efficient and strategic movement of traffic through the introduction of structure plans
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| P9 | To enhance the amenity value of the central business area of Te Aroha, Matamata, and Morrinsville by ensuring that such areas are not congested by service delivery activities and a lack of adequate parking. |
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| P10 | To promote appropriate roading connections within and between land being subdivided to ensure our towns are well connected. |
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| P11 | To ensure that subdivision and development takes into account the existing and proposed capacity and design of the transportation networks and that any adverse effects are avoided, remedied or mitigated |
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| P12 | To establish and maintain service lanes and public carparks which assist in reducing traffic congestion on surrounding streets. |
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| P13 | To encourage alternative transport modes by making provision for cycleways and walkways. |
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| P14 | To require the retention of all roads, including paper roads, where alternative public access to the District’s rivers is not available. |
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| P15 | To manage the location of subdivision and land use activities to avoid compromising road intersection and railway level crossing safety sightlines. |
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ANTICIPATED ENVIRONMENTAL RESULTS
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