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9 Victor Harbor (City) VICTOR HARBOR URBAN INTRODUCTION Background The town of Victor Harbor is an important centre for commercial and professional services. The foreshore reserve south of the town centre is the focal point for holiday makers for the whole south coast urban area. At peak periods considerable vehicular and pedestrian activity occurs in this area. The town has expanded rapidly over recent years as a result of its increasing popularity as a tourist resort and retirement area. This expansion has created a need in the town centre area for a large number of services and facilities. The town centre provides the main regional shopping and various business and community facilities for the South Coast Urban Area and its rural hinterland. The town contains a range of tourist accommodation, including caravan parks, motels, hotels, guest houses, holiday houses and flats. Tourist activities are concentrated near the river estuaries, the town centre, and along the foreshore. The two main residential areas are at Encounter Bay and Victor Harbor, from parts of which extensive views of the Bay and Islands can be obtained. There is substantial retirement housing in the older established residential areas. An area of allotments in Yuruga immediately to the north of Victor Harbor provides opportunities for living in an attractive, substantially rural, environment. In addition to the foreshore recreation area with its beaches, there is also in Victor Harbor a wide range of community and recreational facilities, including a golf course, ovals, tennis courts, bowling greens, squash courts, a trotting track, boat launches and a sailing club. There are also public and special educational establishments, centres of religious activity and major health services available in the District Hospital. Communications within the town are not ideal because of the difficult topography which has constrained the location of roads and urban development and the relatively haphazard way in which closer settlement has occurred over a period of more than 150 years. Notwithstanding this, development of the town has progressed steadily by the infilling of allotments created in the 1960s to a stage where further expansion of the area and the facilities of the town can be expected to occur in the foreseeable future. The Victor Harbor (Town) Structure Plan (Map ViH/1 (Overlay 1) Enlargement A) sets out the strategy to accommodate the needs of the population and visitors to the expanded urban area which has been and will continue to be one of the State's primary tourist destinations. The Structure Plan illustrates generally the desired strategy for the future development of the town through the following measures: (a) compact development within the limits of the existing urban area; (b) provision for future urban residential expansion in an orderly and compact manner; (c) scope for expansion, rationalisation and redevelopment of facilities within the Town Centre; (d) consolidation and rationalisation of existing local service Centres in Hayborough, Victoria Street and Yilki; (e) provision for services and accommodation for visitors within Tourist Accommodation areas; (f) provision for a range of industrial activities in the industrial area at Newland and in a new industrial park on Waterport Road; (g) protection and enhancement of the natural environment of the rivers Hindmarsh and Inman and the foreshore area for the enjoyment of the public; Consolidated - 26 May 2016 10 Victor Harbor (City) (h) protection of views of the rural backdrop and natural skyline behind the town of Victor Harbor in the rural living area (see also the Victor Harbor (Town) Structure Plan (Map ViH/1 (Overlay 1) Enlargement A)); (i) protection of the attractive appearance of the town as viewed from major routes approaching and within the town; and (j) classification of primary and secondary arterial roads in a hierarchy of function and importance to provide for orderly and safe traffic movement. There are no major industries operating in the town of Victor Harbor although several service industries are well established. As the population and the level of business activity has grown in the district, pressures to develop industries and commercial facilities in unsatisfactory locations has generated a need for appropriate and adequate areas to be provided for these uses. Consolidated - 26 May 2016 COUNCIL‐WIDE General OBJECTIVES Objective 1: Satisfaction of the social, cultural, economic, and environmental needs of the population of the district and surrounding region. Objective 2: The development of employment opportunities for the district population. Objective 4: Provision of services to encourage and provide for visitors to the district. Objective 5: Development of Victor Harbor township as the main urban centre in the district. Objective 6: Coordination of district development with that of the neighbouring Council areas. Objective 7: Avoidance of nuisance from pollution, noise, light or any other source. Form of Development Objective 8: Orderly development of the district, with economic extension of services and facilities and land division which sets aside suitable sites for shopping, open space, employment, education, recreation, human services and community facilities. PRINCIPLES OF DEVELOPMENT CONTROL 1 Development should be in accordance with the City of Victor Harbor Structure Plan (Maps ViH/1 (Overlay 1) and (Overlay 2)), the Victor Harbor (Town) Structure Plan (Map ViH/1 (Overlay 1) Enlargement A) and the Victor Harbor (Town) District Centre Structure Plan (Map Vi1 (Overlay 1) Enlargement B). 2 Development should be undertaken in accordance with the relevant provisions of the zone and/or policy area and having regard to the location and condition of that land concerned. 3 Development should not interfere with the effective and proper use of any other land in the vicinity, or prevent the attainment of the relevant zone objectives which apply to that other land. 11 Development should not contribute to the pollution of air, water or land. 12 Development should take place in a manner which is not liable to cause an unreasonable nuisance to the community: (a) by the emission of noise, vibration, odour, fumes, smoke, vapour, steam, soot, ash, dust, grit, oil, waste water, waste products, electrical interference or light; (b) by stormwater or the drainage of run‐off from the land; or (c) loss of privacy. 15 Development should provide appropriate shelter for pedestrians and should not be detrimental to the convenience and safety of pedestrians in its locality. 16 Adequate provision should be made for the handling and storage of refuse. Residential Allotments 31 Residential allotments should have the appropriate area and dimensions: (a) for the siting and construction of a dwelling and ancillary outbuildings; (b) for the provision of private outdoor space; (c) for convenient vehicle access and parking; and (d) to reinforce the desired future character of surrounding development in the relevant policy area. Design Techniques (Design Techniques illustrate ONE WAY of satisfying the associated principle of development control) 31.1 In relation to PC 31(d), the site area required for a dwelling conforms with the area specified in each policy area. 32 The division of broadacre land should establish allotments of varying size to encourage housing diversity. 33 Allotments should have an orientation, size and dimensions that will facilitate the siting of dwellings to: (a) protect natural or cultural features; (b) minimise the need for earthworks and retaining walls; and (c) face streets and open spaces. 22 Victor Harbor (City) Design Techniques (Design Techniques illustrate ONE WAY of satisfying the associated principle of development control) 54.1 Possible complementary design techniques could include: (a) using dry composting toilets; (b) use of grey water for specified uses in accordance with health requirements; (c) use of water efficient fixtures in all new buildings (for example, AAA rated fixtures under the Water Conservation Rating and Labelling Scheme); (d) using insulation, shading and natural ventilation to cool houses as opposed to evaporative air conditioning; (e) xeriscape landscaping – use of native plants in new developments that generally use less water than non-indigenous species; (f) permeable rather than impermeable paving; (g) use of swales and soakage pits; and (h) installation of rainwater tanks. 55 Land division should allow for the incorporation of treatment systems which enable the reuse of ‘grey water’ for the flushing of toilets and watering of gardens. Grey water is wastewater generated from bathrooms (showers, baths, spas and hand basins) and laundries (washing machines and troughs), but does not include wastewater from kitchens the which has the potential to cause unpleasant odour. Information Technology 56 Information and communication technology infrastructure should be supplied to all dwellings in association with other services such as electricity, water and sewerage. Residential Development OBJECTIVES Objective 11: The establishment of safe, attractive and pleasant residential areas comprising residential development of a scale, form, density and appearance that maintains or achieves the desired character of specific zones and, where applicable, policy areas. Objective 12: The location, design and density of residential development providing an efficient and effective use of established and new urban infrastructure and services. Objective 13: Residential