9.1.1 Access

1. Roading Hierarchy:
   1. When considering the following performance standards, these roads shall be considered as State Highways and arterial roads.
      

      State Highways:

      State Highway 24
      State Highway 26
      State Highway 27
      State Highway 28
      State Highway 29
      State Highway 1

      Within Morrinsville

      Marshall Street
      Allen Street
      Waverley Avenue

      Arterial roads

      Tahuna-Ohinewai Road
      Morrinsville – Tahuna Road
      Tauhei Road
      Paeroa-Tahuna Road East and West
      Awaiti Road
      No. 1 Road
      Ngutumanga Road
      Tautiti Road
      Bowler Road
      Piako Road
      Kuranui Road
      Morrinsville-Walton Road, Walton Road
      Kereone Road - Ngarua Road
      Stanley Road North
      Stanley Road South
      Alexandra Road
      Wardville Road from State Highway 27 to Alexandra Road
      Tower Road from Broadway to bridge on Okauia Springs Road
      Te Poi Road
      Hinuera Road from State Highway 27 to Hopkins Road
      Hopkins Road

   
   
   1. Access to State Highways and arterial roads
      1. No crossing place on to a State Highway or arterial road shall be permitted to serve any proposed new activity unless the following criteria are met:
         1. No reasonably practicable alternative legal access is available to another road.
         2. The crossing shall be located, designed and constructed in accordance with the MPDC Development Manual 2010.
         3. There are less than 50 car equivalent movements daily within any one week, where a car equivalent movement is defined as follows:

             

            1 car to and from the site	=	2 car equivalent movements
            1 truck to and from the site	=	6 car equivalent movements
            1 truck and a trailer to and from the site	=	10 car equivalent movements
            Provided that a single residential dwelling is deemed to generate 8 car equivalent movements.

          

         1. Any vehicular access which is new or changed in character, intensity or scale of use and unable to comply with the minimum sight distances and separation distances contained within the MPDC Development Manual 2010 shall be a discretionary activity.
      2. All properties with legal access to a State Highway or arterial road shall provide all parking and manoeuvring on-site.

    

   1. Access to other roads
      Any vehicular access which is new or will result in a change in character, intensity or scale of use shall:
      1. Be located in accordance with the minimum sight distances and separation distances contained within the MPDC Development Manual 2010. An activity that does not comply with this provision shall be a restricted discretionary activity, with Council’s discretion restricted to the following matters:
         • Traffic safety;
         • Visibility requirements;
         • Vehicle movements per day past the entranceway;
         • Speed limits;
         • Width of road;
         • Culvert and drains; and
         • Type of road.
      2. The primary access to a lot shall be designed and constructed in accordance with DG307 in the MPDC Development Manual 2010. The design and construction of any secondary access shall be based on the anticipated use of the access and shall comply with an appropriate entranceway as contained within the MPDC Development Manual 2010. For the purpose of this rule “secondary access” includes farm accesses used occasionally, but excludes accesses used by heavy vehicles and the main working access to a property/lot, which are considered primary accesses.
      3. Where a building consent is issued for a new building on any site that does not already have a satisfactory entrance, the owner will be required to construct an entrance in accordance with the minimum sight distances and separation distances contained within the MPDC Development Manual 2010.
      4. Council may require the upgrading of existing roads necessary to serve any controlled, discretionary or non-complying activities.
      5. All work on crossings within the road boundaries shall be in accordance with the MPDC Development Manual 2010 and undertaken at the expense of the owner.
      6. In respect of the urban environment, subdividers shall normally be required to provide only those crossings where the location is fixed at the time of subdivision, such as private access ways and rights of way. In all other cases, the crossings shall be constructed at the time of building consent in accordance with the MPDC Development Manual 2010.
      7. Within the “Specified Shopping Areas”, no vehicular access shall be permitted to the property from the street over the front boundary of the property.
      8. Where there is only a single location available on a lot in terms of legal road frontage which is unable to comply with the minimum sight distances and separation distances contained within the MPDC Development Manual 2010, a controlled activity resource consent shall be required. The matters of control are restricted to the following matters:
         • Vegetation clearance;
         • Culverts and drains; and
         • Design and construction of entranceways.

    

   1. Garages and Carports
      1. All garages and carports shall be set back 5 metres from the front/road boundary.
      2. All garages and carports in the Residential Zone within an identified Structure Plan (refer Activity Table 2.2) shall be set back 6 metres from the front/road boundary.

    

   1. Pedestrian Access
      All pedestrian access shall be in accordance with the MPDC Development Manual 2010.

    

   Objectives/Policies
   3.8.2	O1, O2, O4, O5	P1

    

   9.1.2 On-site Parking and Loading

   1. Loading Space Dimensions
      Activities requiring loading facilities or servicing from heavy vehicles shall comply with the 90 percentile design two axled truck swept path and minimum loading space dimensions or a greater dimension of design where articulated vehicles or trucks and trailers are anticipated.

    

   1. On-Site Parking and Loading
      Every person who proposes to erect, re-erect, construct or substantially reconstruct, alter or add to a building on a site or who changes the use of any land or building, shall provide suitable areas for the parking of vehicles and loading as required below:

    

   Activity	Parking Spaces Required
   Accommodation Facilities including:
   Dwellings (being one household unit)	2 spaces per dwelling Note : One may be “stacked” where it does not interfere with shared access.
   Home Occupations - involving retailing - no retailing Boarding houses, Hostels, Hotel Accommodation	4 spaces 1 space per 2 persons employed 1 space to every three persons designed to be accommodated plus 1 space per 2 staff members.
   Motel, Lodges, Camping Grounds, Caravan Parks	1 space per unit place plus 1 per two staff members.
   Places of Assembly including:
   Clubrooms, Restaurants, Cafes, Churches and Mortuary Chapels, Funeral Directors.	1 space for ten persons the facility is designed to cater for, or 1 space per 10m2 Gross Floor Area. (Participants and spectators are to be catered for).
   Halls, Theatres, Libraries, Gymnasiums and other Places of Assembly. Recreational and Community Activities with no buildings.	1 space per ten persons the facility is designed to accommodate.
   Education Facilities including :
   Pre-schools, Kindergartens, Childcare Centres, Primary and Intermediate Schools, Educational Institutions with less than 50 pupils.	2 spaces for every 3 permanent fulltime staff member plus 2 spaces for visitors. 1 loading space for buses and vans.
   Secondary Schools, and Educational Institutions with 50 or more pupils.	2 spaces for every 3 permanent fulltime staff member plus 2 spaces for visitors plus provision for pupil’s vehicles assessed by a discretionary use application. 1 loading space per 50 pupils for buses and vans.
   Business Activities including :
   Retail shops (including drive-in retail facilities and banks) Administrative, Commercial and Professional Offices not in a residential building	1 space for 40m2 of gross floor area.
   Motor Vehicle and Agricultural Implement sales yards	1 space per 150m2 of display area.
   Medical Centres, Hospitals, Hospices	4 spaces per professional person plus 1 space per 2 staff.
   Service Stations and premises for Assembly, Repair of Motor Vehicles	1 space for every service bay plus one on-site parking area for service tankers.
   Warehouse and Storage Facilities (indoor or outdoor), Auction Rooms	1 space per 100m2 gross floor area so used.
   Commercial Services, Hire Centres, Dry Cleaning Depots, Repair Service, Tradesman’s Workshops	1 space per 40m2 of gross floor area.
   Industrial Users	1 space per 50m2 of gross floor area.
   Works and Network Utilities	All permanent employee parking and loading requirements to be on-site.

   1. Exclusion of Land for Service Lane or Road
      All parking and loading spaces and manoeuvring areas shall be provided on-site exclusive of land required for service lane or road.

    

    

   1. Location of Parking and Loading Areas
      • The provision for parking and loading in respect of any site shall not be on:
        • part of any manoeuvring area or access lane, or road.
        • any screening required by this Plan.
        • any solid waste storage area required by this Plan.
      • Parking and loading spaces are to be either visible from the public road or clearly signposted at the road frontage.

   
   Provided that in the business and industrial zones manoeuvring may be on service lanes.

   
   
   1. Formation of Access, Parking and Loading areas
      All shared private accessways, right of ways, access lots, common area for access, private access to a rear lot, parking and loading areas shall be formed and surfaced in accordance with the MPDC Development Manual 2010

    

   1. Stacked Parking
      Council shall accept stacked parking only in the case of dwellings provided that the stacking area is exclusive of all those matters listed in (v) above.

    

   1. Reverse Manoeuvring
      When three or more parking spaces or any loading space or spaces are required by this Plan to be provided on a site, sufficient space shall be provided on-site so that no reverse manoeuvring on to or from a road is needed. The manoeuvring space provided shall take into account the type of vehicle anticipated.
      
      Provided that: this requirement shall not apply where vehicular access to any such parking or loading space or spaces is obtained from a service lane.

    

   1. Stock crossings
      

      The requirement for a stock crossing shall be in accordance with Appendix 4 of the District Plan.

      
      

      The construction of the stock underpasses is a permitted activity if it complies with the requirements of the MPDC Development Manual 2010.

      
      

      If a stock underpass is required by Appendix 4 of the District Plan and is not to be constructed, or does not meet the requirements of the MPDC Development Manual 2010, a discretionary activity resource consent shall be required.

      
      

      If a stock underpass is not required by Appendix 4 of the District Plan, a mat shall be placed over the road crossing in accordance with the requirements of the MPDC Development Manual 2010.  Should these requirements not be met, a discretionary activity resource consent shall be required.

      
      

      Advice Note:  The Land Transport Bylaw 2008 also applies to the movement of stock within the road reserve.

    

   1. Access to Rural Properties.
      Any vehicles disposing of rural or industrial waste onto a property, and any rural activity subject to a resource consent, shall gain access to that property over a complying heavy vehicle entranceway located, designed and constructed in accordance with the MPDC Development Manual 2010.
      Provided that:
      
      In assessing what vehicle entranceway is required, Council may require a lesser standard whereby no adverse effects are generated by the activity having a regard to the following:
      • Traffic safety;
      • Visibility requirements;
      • Vehicle movements per day past the entranceway;
      • Speed limits;
      • Locality of other entranceways;
      • Width of road;
      • Culverts and drains;
      • Type of road;
      • Effects of the activity on access.

    

   1. Service Lanes
      All new activities shall provide Council with land for a service lane at the rear or at the side of the site as required in accordance with the planning maps. The service lane widths and dimensions required from each site shall be in accordance with dimensions set down on the planning maps, or when not detailed, in accordance with the MPDC Development Manual 2010.

    

   1. Signs
      Signs shall be designed, erected and located in accordance with the MPDC Development Manual 2010 and Section 3:  Development Controls..

    

   Objectives/Policies
   3.8.2	O2, O3, O4, O5	P2

    

   Explanation

   The provision of access, parking and loading areas has a significant impact on both the amenity of the adjacent area and the safety and efficiency of the roading network adjoining the site. The proposed rules are intended to ensure that the location, formation and use of these areas do not compromise the enjoyment and use of adjacent properties and facilities.

    

    

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