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Provision of Technical Assistance to Emfuleni Local Municipality to Prepare Neighborhood Development Partnership Grant Applications PROVISION OF TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO EMFULENI LOCAL MUNICIPALITY TO PREPARE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP GRANT APPLICATIONS Township Development Strategy, Urban Design Frameworks and Selected Projects INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL URBAN DEVELOPMENT August 2009 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 1 2 TOWNSHIP DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 2 2.1 TRANSPORTATION CORRIDORS ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 3 2.2 WETLANDS............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 9 2.3 STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT NODES ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 10 2.4 TOURISM ROUTE ................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 13 2.5 TOWNSHIP DEVELOPMENT CONCEPT................................................................................................................................................................................. 16 3 URBAN DESIGN FRAMEWORKS .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 17 3.1 CIRCULATION ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 18 3.2 OPEN SPACE ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 23 3.3 CORRIDORS, PRECINCTS AND HISTORIC SITES .................................................................................................................................................................... 28 4 PROJECT SELECTION ................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 32 4.1 WETLAND REGENERATION AND PARK DEVELOPMENT IN BOIPATONG ............................................................................................................................. 36 4.2 UPGRADE OF CIVIC AND COMMERCIAL HUB IN BOPHELONG ............................................................................................................................................ 43 4.3 DEVELOPMENT OF OPEN SPACE IN BOPHELONG ALONG THE R57 .................................................................................................................................... 49 4.4 CREATION OF A CULTURAL PRECINCT IN SEBOKENG ......................................................................................................................................................... 58 4.5 A TRANSIT HUB NEAR BOIPATONG ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 66 4.6 DEVELOPMENT OF A REGIONAL NODE IN SEBOKENG ........................................................................................................................................................ 68 5 ANNEX ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 76 INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL URBAN DEVELOPMENT INTRODUCTION 1 INTRODUCTION In April 2009 Kwezi V 3 Engineers was appointed to The township development strategy focuses on at the beginning of Section 4. From this broad provide technical assistance to Emfuleni Local connecting the four townships, originally isolated array, six priority projects have been selected that Municipality (ELM) for the preparation of business by apartheid spatial planning, to the primary best fit the requirements for NDPG funding. Three plans for capital grant funding from the economic centers of Vanderbijlpark and to four of the priority projects will be prepared as Neighborhood Development Partnership Grant Vereeniging as well as to each other. The strategy business plans subject to the decision and approval (NDPG). This funding is intended to support emphasizes three local development corridors that of the Sedibeng Municipal Council. township development projects in areas with link each township to larger regional routes, and economic growth potential in order to attract highlights five key nodes along these corridors The township development strategy, urban design private sector investment. To effectively allocate where concentrated investment will likely have the frameworks and plans for priority projects were funding and avoid ad‐hoc development, the NDPG most positive economic, social and environmental formulated after an extensive review of relevant requires that projects submitted as business plans impact. It also delineates a tourism route featuring documentation and research reports, consultations be rooted in an overall township development points of interest and historic sites in the four with officials of SDM and ELM, discussions with strategy as well as in urban design frameworks for townships. local business people and township residents, the specific townships or smaller neighborhood attendance at key workshops and meetings, and locations, depending on the propsed project scale. The urban design frameworks for Boipatong, numerous site visits with photodocumentation. Bophelong, and the Sebokeng/Evaton area stress (Please see the Annex for lists of documents and This report presents the township development the importance of improving the internal circulation meetings). The first draft of the strategy was strategy, urban design frameworks and selected networks by establishing street hierarchies and confirmed by the data obtained from a survey of 60 priority projects for Boipatong, Bophelong, recommending targeted improvements. township residents and business owners conducted Sebokeng and Evaton in Emfuleni Local Treatments for various types of open space are at the end of June, focusing on community needs Municipality. These townships are part of the suggested and later developed in detail in several of and priorities. Gauteng Provincial Government’s 20 Priority the project proposals. Existing nodes, corridors and Townships Programme (20 PTP) and have been historic sites in the townships are noted and these The strategy, frameworks and priority projects have selected by Sedibeng District Municipality (SDM) activity centers guide the final project selection. been presented to representatives from SDM and and ELM as target areas for NDPG‐funded projects. ELM and the selection of projects to prepare as These townships are also historically significant in 30 potential projects corresponding to the urban business plans is currently being debated by the relation to the struggle against apartheid. design frameworks for the townships are identified Sedibeng Municipal Council. INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL URBAN DEVELOPMENT 1 TOWNSHIP DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY 2 TOWNSHIP DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY In its June 2009 assessment report, the Kv3 team • Improving roads and identified several planning issues affecting the four pedestrian paths townships, including: • Linking transport systems (e.g. • Treating open space and wetlands; taxi and rail) • Improving transportation and circulation; • Encouraging community • Creating a sense of place; involvement and social programs • Balancing formal and informal retail; and • Safety and maintenance • Managing solid waste. The strategy for township development presented in this report addresses these issues through three overlapping themes that structure the urban design frameworks and direct the selection of priority projects (See Illustration 2.1): 1. Social inclusion and Connectivity, including improving circulation within the townships and connecting them to economic centers; 2. Environment and Health, including developing and maintaining open space and regenerating wetlands; and 3. Economic Development and Investment, including promoting the growth of new and • Developing regional attractions • Solid waste management • Commercial/retail investment existing formal and informal businesses. • Pollution clean‐up • Beautification and densification • Upgrade and maintenance of • Cultural and historic pride Most of the projects recommended in this report fall open space • Infrastructure and maintenance under more than one of these themes,
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