CITY OF CAPE TOWN

SURFACE STORMWATER SYSTEMS

ENVIRONMENTAL AUTHORISATION FOR

MAINTENANCE AND MANAGEMENT INTERVENTIONS UNDERTAKEN BY THE CITY IN ITS SURFACE STORMWATER SYSTEMS:

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION REPORT (Appendix F of the Basic Assessment Report)

FINAL

November 2014 J31110

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CITY OF CAPE TOWN SURFACE STORMWATER SYSTEMS PUBLIC PARTICIPATION PROCESS COMMENTS AND RESPONSE REPORT

CONTENTS

Chapter Description Page

1 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION METHODOLOGY 1

1.1 Introduction 1

1.2 Methodology overview 1 1.1.1 Notification of Basic Assessment Process 1 1.1.2 Review of Draft Basic Assessment Report and Public Open House Days 1 1.1.3 Review of Final Basic Assessment Report 2 1.1.4 Outstanding PPP Tasks 2

1.3 Notification of Authorities 2

1.4 I&AP Registration and Comments 2 1.4.1 Initial registration and comment period 2 1.4.2 Review of Draft Basic Assessment Report 3 1.4.3 Review of Final Basic Assessment Report 4

2 CONCLUSION AND WAY FORWARD 6

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APPENDICES

Appendix F1: Newspaper Advertisements Appendix F2: Proof of Notification Appendix F3: Comments and Responses Report (CRR) Appendix F4: Public Open House Appendix F5: I&AP database Appendix F6: Background Information Document

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

CCT City of Cape Town CSRM Catchment River and Stormwater Management BAR Basic Assessment Report BID Background Information Document DEA&DP Department of Environmental Affairs and Development Planning EAP Environmental Assessment Practitioner HIA Heritage Impact Assessment I&APs Interested & Affected Parties PPP Public Participation Process SAHRA South African Heritage Resource Agency

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1 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION METHODOLOGY

1.1 Introduction

This report describes the Public Participation Process (PPP) undertaken as part of the Basic Environmental Assessment as required in terms of chapter 5 of the National Environmental Management Act (107 of 1998), as amended, for the maintenance and management of the City of Cape Town’s (CCT) surface stormwater systems. It describes the methodology of the PPP, and presents the issues and comments raised by Interested and Affected Parties (I&APs), as well as responses provided by the Environmental Assessment Practitioner (EAP) to these queries.

1.2 Methodology overview

The following main activities have undertaken as part of the PPP:

1.1.1 Notification of Basic Assessment Process

An advertisement notifying and inviting any I&AP or key stakeholder that may have an interest in the proposed project to register as an I&AP and submit comments was placed in the following newspapers:

 Cape Argus – 3 September 2012  Die Burger – 4 September 2012  False Bay Echo – 5 September 2012  Southern Mail – 5 September 2012  TableTalk – 5 September  Tygerburg – 5 September 2012

1.1.2 Review of Draft Basic Assessment Report and Public Open House Days

Notifications were sent to authorities as listed in section 1.3. The draft basic assessment report BAR has been released for a 40 day review period for I&APs. Four public open house days were held at the following venues:

 Somerset West public library – 10 February  Southfield public library – 11 February  Observatory sports and recreation centre – 12 February  Bellville public library – 13 February All comments received during the review period of the draft BAR have been included in the comments and responses report (CRR).

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1.1.3 Review of Final Basic Assessment Report The draft basic assessment report was updated with comments received on the draft report. The report was finalised and released for I&AP review for 21 days. Three comments were received during this period and these where included in the Comments & Response Report (Appendix F3).

1.1.4 Outstanding PPP Tasks

The following task are yet to be undertaken:  Notification of I&APs of DEA&DP’s decision on the application.

1.3 Notification of Authorities

The applicant in this case is the Catchment Stormwater and River Maintenance (CSRM) Branch (now Stormwater and Sustainability Branch – TCT Planning Department, and internal consultation regarding this application was undertaken including the notification of the following:

The following other authorities were notified of the Basic Assessment process:  SANRAL  SANParks  CapeNature  Department of Water Affairs: Western Cape  Department of Health  Department of Transport and Public Works  Department of Environmental Affairs and Development Planning  BirdLife SA  WESSA

Comments from authorities are included in the Comments and Responses Report (Appendix F3).

1.4 I&AP Registration and Comments

1.4.1 Initial registration and comment period

Six newspaper advertisements were published in the period between 3 – 6 September 2012 with a 30 day registration period for I&APs starting on the publication date. All written comments received were captured, grouped according to topic, and summarised. These comments are presented in Appendix F3. Comments and responses report.

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1.4.2 Review of Draft Basic Assessment Report

Interested and affected parties were afforded a forty (40) day review period of the draft BAR from 22 January to 3 March 2014.

Hardcopies of the report were made available for public review at 17 libraries throughout the City of Cape Town. This meant that there were 2 reports per the 8 defined districts of Cape Town (3 were made available in District 1). Libraries where these reports were made available are listed below on the following page in Table 1.

The report was also/is available on the GIBB website: http://projects.gibb.co.za

During this reviewed period I&APs were also invited to submit any comments/concerns regarding the project. Like the initial registration stage, all written comments received were captured, grouped according to topic, and summarised.

Table 1: Hardcopy locations of dBAR District Venue Address

Milnerton Public Library Pienaar Road, Milnerton, 7441

1 Table View Public Library Birkenhead Road, Table View, 7441

Andrew Foster Road, Bloubergstrand, Bloubergstrand 7441 Cnr Oxford & Koeberg Roads, Durbanville Public Library Durbanville, 7550 2 Kraaifontein Public Library Brighton Way, Kraaifontein, 7570

Carel van Aswegen Street, Bellville, Bellville Public Library 7530 3 Cnr McIntyre Roads and 1st Avenue, Parrow Public Library Parow, 7500

Kulis River Public Library Carinus Street, Kulis River, 7580

4 Cnr Victoria and Adries Pretorius Somerset West Public Library Streets, Somerset West, 7130

Central Library Old Drill Hall, Cnr Parade & Darling, 5 Cnr Colin & Voortrekker Rd, Maitland, Maitland Public Library 7405 Cnr Dobson & Klipfontein Road, Athlone Public Library Athlone, 7764 6 Grassy Park Public Library Market Square, Grassy Park, 7945

7 Masakhane Public Library Ntlazana Road, Khayelitsha, 7784

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Mitchell's Plain Town Centre, Town Centre Public Library Symphony Walk, Mitchell's Plain, 7785

Fish Hoek Public Library Central Circle, Fish Hoek, 7975 8 Library Square, Wilderness Roads, Claremont Public Library Claremont, 7708

Additional hardcopies were also made available for public review at the GIBB Cape Town Office.

1.4.3 Review of Final Basic Assessment Report

Interested and affected parties were afforded a twenty one (21) day review period of the final BAR from 13 October to 03 November 2014.

Hardcopies of the report were made available for public review at 17 libraries throughout the City of Cape Town. This meant that there were 2 reports per the 8 defined districts of Cape Town (3 were made available in District 1). Libraries where these reports were made available are listed below in Table 2.

The report was also/is available on the GIBB website: http://projects.gibb.co.za

During this reviewed period I&APs were also invited to submit any comments/concerns regarding the project. Three written comments were received and these were captured, grouped according to topic, and summarised.

Table 2: Hardcopy locations of fBAR District Venue Address

Milnerton public library Pienaar Road, Milnerton, 7441

1 Table View Public Library Birkenhead Road, Table View, 7441

Bloubergstrand Andrew Foster Road, Bloubergstrand, 7441

Durbanville public library Cnr Oxford & Koeberg Roads, Durbanville, 7550 2 Kraaifontein public library Brighton Way, Kraaifontein, 7570

Bellville public library Carel van Aswegen Street, Bellville, 7530 3 Situated on Edgemead Drive, located next-door to Edgemead/Monte Vista Public library the Cricket Club. No specific number.

Kulis River public library Carinus Street, Kulis River, 7580 4 Cnr Victoria and Adries Pretorius Streets, Somerset Somerset West public library West, 7130

Central library Old Drill Hall, Cnr Parade & Darling, 5 Maitland Public Library Cnr Colin & Voortrekker Rd, Maitland, 7405

6 Athlone public library Cnr Dobson & Klipfontein Road, Athlone, 7764

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Grassy park public library Market Square, Grassy Park, 7945

Masakhane public library Ntlazana Road, Khayelitsha, 7784 7 Mitchell's Plain Town Centre, Symphony Walk, Town centre public library Mitchell's Plain, 7785

Fish Hoek public library Central Circle, Fish hoek, 7975 8 Claremont Public Library Library Square, Wilderness Roads, Claremont, 7708

Additional hardcopies were also made available for public review at the GIBB Cape Town Office

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2 CONCLUSION AND WAY FORWARD

The following steps are remaining in the Basic Assessment process:

 Notification of I&APs of DEA&DPs decision on the application

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Newspaper Advertisments

7 Newspaper Adverts During Registration Period - September 2012 Cape Argus

Die Burger

8 Newspaper Adverts During Registration Period - September 2012 False Bay Echo

Southern Mail

9 Newspaper Adverts During Registration Period - September 2012

Tabletalk

10 Newspaper Adverts During Registration Period - September 2012 TygerBurger Eersterivier & Blue-Downs

TygerBurger Ravensmead & Belhar

11 Newspaper Adverts During Registration Period - September 2012 TygerBurger Elsiesrivier

TygerBurger Durbanville

12 Newspaper Adverts During Registration Period - September 2012 TygerBurger Kraaifontein

TygerBurger Brackenfell

13 Newspaper Adverts During Registration Period - September 2012 TygerBurger Parow

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Proof of Notification

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Notification during Registration Period

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dBAR Availability and Open House Notification Letter

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Proof of notification of Authorities of the availability of dBAR

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Comments and Responses Report (CRR)

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Open House Day

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Attendance register 10/02/2014 Somerset West Public Library

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Attendance register 11/02/2014 Southfield Public Library

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Attendance register 13/02/2014 Bellville Public Library

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Somerset West Open House 10/02/2014

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Observatory Open House 12/02/2014

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Interested and Affected Party Database

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J31110 - CCT SURFACE STORMWATER BA - Interested and Affected Party Register First Company / Organisation / Estate I&AP Category Surname Names etc. National Authority Hilzinger-Maas S. Dept of Agriculture Forrestries and Fisheries National Authority Runkel Colene South African National Roads Agency Limited National Authority van Der Westhuizen Marne South(SANRAL) African National Parks (SANPARKS) Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA): Marine National Authority Matthew Mantini and Coastal Management National Authority Kloppers Wilna Dept of Water Affairs: Western Cape National Authority Lintnaar-Strauss Melissa Dept of Water Affairs: Western Cape Provincial Authority Smart Rhett Cape Nature Provincial Authority Daams Francisco Department of Local Government & Housing: Provincial Authority van Wijk Calvin HeritageProvincial Western Disaster Cape Management Centre Provincial Authority van der Walt Cor Department of Agriculture: WC Provincial Authority London Leslie Department of Health WC Provincial Authority Swanepoel Grace Department Transport & Public Works Provincial Authority Isaacs Rondine Dept of Environmental Affairs and Development Provincial Authority Rughoobeer Keshni DeptPlanning of Environmental Affairs and Development Local Authority Fortuin Henri DeptPlanning of Environmental Affairs and Development Local Authority Barrett Crispin CityPlanning of Cape Town Local Authority Newman Natalie City of Cape Town Local Authority Bodenstein Janet CoCT: Environmental Resource Management Local Authority Thompson Martin CityDepartment of Cape Town Local Authority Haskins Candice City of Cape Town Local Authority Daries Duncan City of Cape Town Local Authority Samaain Rashaad City of Cape Town Local Authority Arton-Powell Peter City of Cape Town Local Authority Dorse Suretha City of Cape Town Local Authority Smith Phillip City of Cape Town Local Authority Lyons Hester Department of Water Affairs Local Authority Anthony Washiela Dept of Environmental Affairs and Development Local Authority van Wyk Azanne CoCT:Planning Environmental Resource Management Local Authority Georgeades Dimitri CoCT:Department Environmental Resource Management Local Authority Greenwood Andy CoCT:Department Environmental Resource Management Local Authority de Villiers Dennis CoCT:Department TCT Head: District R&S Local Authority Reddy Portia City of Cape Town Local Authority Potgieter Reje City of Cape Town Local Authority Malan Roelou City of Cape Town Local Authority Forbes Alexander City of Cape Town Local Authority Fourie Ruschenca City of Cape Town Local Authority von Moltice Feanz City of Cape Town Local Authority Fortuin Brendon CoCT: Plumstead Offices Local Authority Massgn Johan City of Cape Town Local Authority van der Westhuizen Jaimee City - ERMD Assistant Local Authority Adonis Melvin CoCT: CSRM Local Authority Hustwick Sandy CoCT: ERMD Table Bay District Local Authority Botha Deon CoCT: TCT Local Authority van Rooyen Alwyn CoCT: TCT Local Authority Qoma Zondiswa CoCT: EBHM Local Authority Loliwe Phumzile City of Cape Town Local Authority Zembe Elethu City of Cape Town Local Authority Zuma Tokozani City of Cape Town Local Authority Wood Barry City of Cape Town Local Authority Parker Abdulla CoCT: Head Catchment Planning North Local Authority Adams Eugene City of Cape Town Local Authority Burger Johannes City of Cape Town Local Authority Sigege Ntsiki CoCT: Facility manager: City Parks

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Local Authority Titmuss Pat CoCT: Environmental Resource Management Local Authority Cope Alvin CityDepartment of Cape Town Conservation Group Ah Shene - ver Doorn Carolyn BirdLife South Africa Conservation Group Huntly Philippa WESSA Conservation Group Wright Dale Birdlife SA Conservation Group Smit Hanneline Birdlife SA Conservation Group van Wyk Niel Friends of the Rietvlei Conservation Group Becker Dieckmann Francine Friends of the Liesbeek Conservation Group Wheeler Elizsabeth Friends of the Black River Conservation Group Wheeler Dave Friends of the Black River Conservation Group Noble Graham Greater Cape Town Civic Alliance (GCTCA) Conservation Group Noble Graham Scarborough Rates Payers and Residents Associate Conservation Group Sieraha George Greater(SRRA) Cape Town Civic Alliance (GCTCA) Conservation Group Sieraha George Durbanville Community Forum Conservation Group Tromp Bastiaan Lourens River Management Advisory Committee Conservation Group Wittridge Owen Lourens River Management Advisory Committee Conservation Group Gradwell Derrick Lourens River Conservation Society Conservation Group Eickelmann Klaus Lourens River Estate Conservation Group von Witt Caitlin von Witt WESSA Conservation Unit, Western cape region Member of the Board of Trustees of The South African Conservation Group Fairall Paul Wetland Society Conservation Group Noah Natalie Garden Cities NPC (RF) Project Coordinator Conservation Group Ngcozela Thabang Environmental Monitoring Group Conservation Group Lakhani Muna Earthlife Africa Cape Town Conservation Group Winter Kevin UCT Urban Water Management Landowner Hughes Graham 39 Hilton Road, Clovelly Landowner Hughes Veronica 39 Hilton Road, Clovelly Interest Group Sieraha George The Greater Cape Town Civic Alliance Adjacent Landowner Smeda Kevin 37 Bunker Rd, Lakeside, 7945 General Mellon D.J Brian Mellon & Associates Interest Group Kruyshaar Kim Fish Hoek Valley Residents and Rate Payers Interest Group Lawson Gavin ZandvleiAssociation Trust Interest Group Venter Jacques Blueplant South Africa General Rowley Denis Private Interest Group Thabang Nhlozela Environmental Monitoring Group Interest Group Hughes Trevor FOL/TRUP

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Background Information Document

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