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Key objectives and priorities

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Network City has ten key objectives as follows:

  1. 1. Deliver urban growth management.
  2. 2. Accommodate urban growth primarily within a Network City pattern, incorporating communities.
  3. 3. Align transport systems and land use to optimise accessibility and amenity.
  4. 4. Deliver a safe, reliable and energy-efficient transport system that provides travel choice.
  5. 5. Protect and enhance the natural environment, open spaces and heritage.
  6. 6. Deliver for all a better quality of life, building on our existing strengths.
  7. 7. Plan with the communities.
  8. 8. Ensure employment is created in centres.
  9. 9. Deliver a city with ‘urban’ energy, creativity and cultural vitality.
  10. 10. Provide a city plan that will be implemented, provide certainty and deliver results.

Nine priority tasks have been identified which will guide projects associated with Network City:

  1. 1. Detailing the metropolitan structure involves expanding and explaining the overall metropolitan structure of activity centres, activity corridors and transport corridors (including the principles that will govern their local planning and management) and the long-term structure of the metropolitan regional parks system.
  2. 2. Determining local population, housing and job targets involves determining and applying methodologies for setting these (and other) targets collaboratively.
  3. 3. Managing growth involves locating, staging and managing greenfield and infill development.
  4. 4. Developing the activity centre concept involves determining the character, location and management of activity centres.
  5. 5. Developing the activity corridor concept involves determining accessibility principles as well as the character, location and management of activity corridors.
  6. 6. Developing the transport corridor concept involves determining the character, location and management of transport corridors.
  7. 7. Enhancing institutional structures and decision-making involves enhancing and improving the way all levels of government and civil society work together.
  8. 8. Relating sustainability to decision-making involves planning and managing growth according to sustainability principles.
  9. 9. Accessing time, money and skills involves ensuring that all stakeholders have access to the skills and funds needed to deliver planning through participatory mechanisms.