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Item 9.3 - Attachment 1 |
Project List for Land Use
Team as at February 2010 |
Project List for Land Use
Team as at February 2010
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No. |
Project |
Description |
Approx. full time equivalent
person weeks required* |
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1 |
LEP and DCP Exhibition, Adoption and gazettal |
Conduct exhibition of draft LEP and DCP, attend meetings, take
enquiries, consider and report on submissions, report to Council with
instrument and make mapping amendments as required. Liaise with Dept of Planning to address
issues and see through to gazettal. |
144 weeks (i.e 4 full time staff for 9 months) |
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2 |
Review of all Council’s heritage listings |
Audit all of Council’s heritage items (over 1,000), review and make
recommendations for potential amendments to planning instruments |
14 |
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3 |
Consolidation of City Centre LEP and Wider LEP |
Comply with Department of Planning Direction to consolidate City
Centre LEP and wider LEP. |
26 |
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4 |
Epping joint planning work with Hornsby Shire Council |
Collaborate with Hornsby Shire Council to prepare planning studies as
a basis to prepare a joint LEP for the Epping town centre. |
26 |
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5 |
City Centre Parking issue – maximum rates versus minimum rates |
Council has resolved that a further report be provided on parking
rates in the City Centre. A workshop
is also scheduled for March 2010. |
4 |
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6 |
Rydalmere B4 Mixed Use – planning study and amendment to the LEP |
Councillors have expressed a desire to rezone this land through the
draft LEP process. The Dept of
Planning has required that planning studies be conducted to substantiate this
rezoning. Land Use staff will assist
City Strategy in preparing this. |
16 |
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7 |
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Planning Proposal for
rezoning and draft DCP as well as negotiation and delivery of VPA as
resolved by Council. |
9 |
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8 |
Epping Traffic and Transport Lobbying Committee |
Support and administer as resolved by Council |
3 |
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9 |
City Centre Eastern Precinct review of FSR |
Council resolved to prepare a planning proposal for the amendment of
the FSR in the eastern precinct of the City Centre including consideration of
other planning controls in conjunction with this work. |
20 |
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10 |
River Road West planning proposal |
Council resolved to consider a separate process to potentially rezone
the area along the river to the east of the City Centre. |
35 |
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11 |
Management and administration of developer contributions |
Manage and coordinate s94/A contributions and working with finance. |
10 |
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12 |
Assistance to Strategic Asset Management (SAM) with rezoning and
reclassification of Council owned land. |
As per Council resolution |
4 |
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13 |
Day to day enquiries, correspondence, requests, support etc. |
Responding to requests/phone calls by residents/Councillors/internal
units of Council and other stakeholders. Corporate/professional training. |
10 |
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14 |
Services Review |
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2 (323) |
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15 |
Review of planning controls for |
The planning controls contained in the draft LEP are a reflection of
the adopted RDS and intended as a “holding pattern” with further work to be
conducted as older approvals begin to lapse or are enacted. |
16 |
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16 |
City Centre Height and FSR variations issue |
The height and FSR controls in the city centre are essentially fixed
with a maximum variation of only 10% allowed.
The “match between height and FSR is not always ideal and mechanisms
to vary height and FSR are being explored.
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10 |
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17 |
Auto Alley urban design and planning study and amendment to LEP |
The City Centre LEP deliberately suppressed development potential in
the auto alley precinct to land bank the precinct. The City Centre Vision document identifies
this as a project to unlock development potential in a measured and
controlled manner. This will require
urban design analysis and amendment to planning controls. |
16 |
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18 |
Westfields urban design and planning study and amendment to LEP |
The City Centre LEP deliberately suppressed development potential for
the Westfields block. The City Centre
Vision document identifies this as a project to plan potential growth of the
block but in a manner that will contribute significantly to the City Centre. This will require urban design analysis and
amendment to planning controls. |
18 |
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19 |
RDS Deferred precincts including |
Council has resolved that certain deferred RDS centres be reviewed to
amend the relevant planning controls. |
27 |
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20 |
Heritage awards |
The bi-annual heritage awards are conducted in November and require
planning in advance. |
4 |
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TOTAL |
414 weeks |
*Expressed as the
equivalent number of weeks required full time person weeks