Chapter 8 — Transportation Page 1 Chapter 8 — Transportation CONTENTS This chapter is presented as follows: SECTION 1 — TRANSPORTATION GENERAL 8.1 Introduction This describes in a general manner transportation and the role of transportation in the functioning of the City. 8.2 Resource Management Issues This outlines the significant resource management issues relevant to transportation activities in the City. 8.3 Objectives This sets out the overall desired environmental outcomes with regard to transportation in the City. 8.4 Policies and Methods This describes how Council intends to ensure that the objectives for transportation activities are met. An explanation of the policies is given. A summary of the range of methods that are used to implement each policy is also included. 8.5 Transportation Strategy The strategy summarises the overall approach to managing the effects of transportation on natural and physical resources in order to promote sustainable management. 8.6 Implementation This broadly describes the regulatory and non-regulatory methods used to implement the policies for the management of transportation activities in the City. 8.7 Anticipated Environmental Results This outlines the environmental outcomes anticipated from the implementation of the policies and methods. Manukau Operative District Plan 2002 Chapter 8 — Transportation Page 2 8.8 Procedures for Monitoring This outlines how Council will monitor the effectiveness of transportation provisions. 8.9 Description and Explanation of Zones The road zones are described here. 8.10 Rules — Activities This sets out in an Activity Table the permitted, controlled, discretionary and non-complying activities for the road zones and design of access in the City. 8.11 Rules — Development and Performance Standards The transportation related development and performance rules and standards that activities are to comply with city-wide and within the road zones and that apply to the design of access are outlined here. 8.12 Rules — Matters for Decision: Restricted Discretionary Activities This outlines the matters over which the Council has restricted the exercise of its discretion for restricted discretionary activities. It also includes assessment criteria that Council will have regard to when assessing a resource consent for a discretionary activity over which the Council has restricted the exercise of its discretion. 8.13 Assessment Criteria — Discretionary Activities This section outlines the assessment criteria that Council will consider in addition to relevant matters set out in Section 104 of the Act when assessing resource consents for discretionary activities. 8.14 Rail Zone This section outlines the provisions and assessment criteria applying within the Rail Zone. SECTION 2 — PARKING AND LOADING 8.15 Introduction This describes in a general manner the role of parking and loading in the functioning of the City. 8.16 Resource Management Issues This outlines the significant resource management issues relevant to parking and loading in the City. Manukau Operative District Plan 2002 Chapter 8 — Transportation Page 3 8.17 Objectives This sets out the overall desired environmental outcomes with regard to parking and loading in the City. 8.18 Policies and Methods This describes how Council intends to ensure that the objectives for parking and loading are met. An explanation of the policies is given. A summary of the range of methods that are used to implement each policy is also included. 8.19 Parking Strategy The strategy summarises the overall approach to managing the effects of parking and loading on natural and physical resources in order to promote sustainable management. 8.20 Implementation This broadly describes the regulatory and non-regulatory methods used to implement the policies for the management of parking and loading activities in the City. 8.21 Anticipated Environmental Results This outlines the environmental outcomes anticipated from the implementation of the policies and methods. 8.22 Procedures for Monitoring This outlines how Council will monitor the effectiveness of parking and loading provisions. 8.23 Rules — Activities This sets out in an Activity Table the permitted, controlled, discretionary and non-complying activities relating to the provision and design of parking and loading and design of access in the City. 8.24 Rules — Development and Performance Standards The development and performance standards that activities are to comply with, with regard to the provision and design of parking and loading are outlined here. 8.25 General Assessment Criteria This section outlines the assessment criteria the Council will consider when assessing non-residential activities which require consent under the Plan as controlled, restricted discretionary or discretionary activities for which parking and access is a matter for control. Manukau Operative District Plan 2002 Chapter 8 — Transportation Page 4 8.26 Financial Contributions This section outlines financial contributions that may be required as a condition of consent relating to transportation, roading and parking and loading matters. 8.27 Schedule 8A This section contains the parking requirements for each land use activity. 8.28 Diagrams This section contains diagrams and tables referred to within the Chapter. APPENDIX 1 Primary network route development and assessment criteria. This section describes assessment criteria relating to particular parts of the Primary Road Network. Manukau Operative District Plan 2002 Chapter 8 — Transportation Page 5 SECTION 1 — TRANSPORTATION GENERAL 8.1 INTRODUCTION 8.1.1 Transportation Land Resources The land transportation system of Manukau City is made up by roads, motorways, the railway, cycleways and footpath networks. The demand for transport arises from the need to move people and goods between various residential, business and recreational activities into and across the City and must be managed efficiently to promote the City’s economic and social wellbeing. The effects of transport on the environment and the inhabitants of the City, are however significant and these must be managed in an integrated manner to reduce these effects, particularly in the urban areas where these effects are greatest. 8.1.2 The Resource Management Act 1991 The Resource Management Act promotes the sustainable management of natural and physical resources in a way which enables people and communities to provide for their social, economic and cultural wellbeing. This includes managing the effects of activities on the environment, and sustaining the potential of resources to meet the needs of future generations. The transportation system and the way it operates is covered by these objectives. The relationship between transport and land use is particularly important in this respect, as is the management of the effects of transport such as noxious gas emissions and water pollution. Management of transportation under the Resource Management Act must be related to resource management outcomes, including reduced environmental effects and greater energy efficiency, and the District Plan is one means of achieving these outcomes. The Resource Management Act provides the opportunity to address the wider issue of the environmental effects of transport through national and regional policy statements, as well as at the district and city level through district plans. The objectives, policies and methods contained in this District Plan have therefore been developed to recognise and reflect those identified in the Auckland Regional Policy Statement (also formulated under the Resource Management Act) developed by the Auckland Regional Council. 8.2 RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ISSUES Section 75 of the Resource Management Act allows for District Plans to state the significant resource management issues of the district. The issues that result from the operation of the transportation system have been identified in this section. [AM89] Many of these issues have, and will continue to be, greatly influenced by decisions made at a national level. These decisions include those relating to changes in passenger transport funding, vehicle standards, the provision for used-vehicle imports on a large scale, provision for market led and relatively low fuel prices and deregulation of the transport industry. It is, nevertheless, also important that each territorial authority ensures the most efficient use is made of the resources available to it in order to promote the sustainable management of natural and physical resources and the efficiency of its own transport network. 8.2.1 Benefits of Having a Good Land Transportation System and Road Network. People, business and communities are dependant upon a good land transportation system in order to enhance their social, economic and cultural well being. The land transport system includes roads and it’s Manukau Operative District Plan 2002 Chapter 8 — Transportation Page 6 associated footpaths, cycle lanes, bus lanes and facilities such as bus shelters and transit centres; independant pathways, cycleways and busways; railways and rail stations; waterways and ferry facilities. The dominant component of the transportation system now and in the foreseeable future within the city is its roading network. Provisions within the City for road transport and premises primarily accessed by motor vehicle, including roads, property accesses, parking facilities, and loading facilities, are thus of considerable importance. The management and enhancement of the road transport system and the vehicular