Plan and Build It Right
Dear CIfA and UDISA Members
Plan and Build it Right is not just a valuable source of information on matters related to local development management processes, it also provides opportunities for its readers to get involved. Share your experience and constructively influence the department’s initiatives aimed at improving its business processes.
In today’s newsletter, we highlight an important opportunity to ‘Have your Say’. We encourage you to provide your comment and feedback.
Land Use Management
The department is currently advertising amendments to the City of Cape Town Municipal Planning By-Law, 2015 and calling on you to ‘Have your Say’. Comments close on 23 September 2024.
New public participation process – MPBL review
The City’s Development Management Department invites interested and affected resident to comment on the proposed amendments to the City of Cape Town Municipal Planning By-Law, 2015 (MPBL). The comment period opens today, Monday 22 July 2024 and closes on Monday, 23 September 2024.
In accordance with Section 27 of the by-law, the City Manager must review the Development Management Scheme (DMS) at least every five years. After following due process, the City has prepared proposed amendments to the MPBL and the DMS. The proposed amendments are extensive.
One of the proposals provides for the development of affordable rental flats as an additional use right in selected residential areas across the city. The 194 areas identified for this proposed additional use right are those where, typically, state-funded housing developments have been and are being implemented, and where the average household income is in the low- to mid-range.
The 194 target areas include:
Bellville, Beacon Valley, Belhar, Bishop Lavis, Brown’s Farms, Bloekombos, Crossroads, Delft, Dunoon, Enkanini, Fisantekraal, Grassy Park, Gugulethu, Heideveld, Joe Slovo Park, Kommetjie, Kraaifontein, Khayelitsha, Kuyasa, Langa, Lavender Hill, Lentegeur, Lwandle, Mamre, Nomzamo, Nyanga, Ocean View, Parow Valley, Pelican Park, Philippi, Phoenix, Retreat, Westlake, Muizenberg, Hout Bay, Sea Winds, Sir Lowry’s Pass, Strand, Strandfontein, Steenberg, Scottsdene, Saxonsea, Sun City, The Hague, Valhalla Park, Vrygrond, Wallacedene, Wetton, Witsand and Westridge in Mitchells Plain, among others.
The full list is available here: www.capetown.gov.za/haveyoursay
The proposed amendments and new provisions to the Municipal Planning By-law are intended to also give effect to the spatial policies and strategies that the City Council has adopted since the last major revision in 2019.
The proposed amendments and new provisions to the Municipal Planning By-law (MPBL) are available at:
• www.capetown.gov.za/haveyoursay, including maps indicating the proposed 194 areas.
• Comment online or submit comment by email: lums@capetown.gov.za
• The closing date for submissions is 23 September 2024
Our Development Management Information Hubs remain available from 08:00 until 16:00, Monday to Friday, to respond to queries and any challenges experienced via the email addresses below:
Blaauwberg District: Blaauwberg.hub@capetown.gov.za
Cape Flats District: CapeFlats.hub@capetown.gov.za
Helderberg District: Helderberg.hub@capetown.gov.za
Khayelitsha/Mitchells Plain District: KhayeMitch.hub@capetown.gov.za
Northern District: Northern.hub@capetown.gov.za
Southern District: Southern.hub@capetown.gov.za
Table Bay District: Tablebay.hub@capetown.gov.za
Tygerberg District: Tygerberg.hub@capetown.gov.za
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