MANENBERG PUBLIC INVESTMENT FRAMEWORK DRAFT 14.10.2015 Contents 6. Vision and strategy 72 6.1 Vision 73 6.2 Spatial principles 76 6.3 Separated, but porous and open to change 79 6.4 Safe and secure 82 6.5 Connected and accessible 90 6.6 Diverse and vibrant 98 6.7 Stimulating and cohesive 114 6.8 Innovative and attractive 118 6.9 Active landscape 124 7. Public Investment Framework 140 1. Introduction 4 7.1 Manenberg PIF broader context 141 1.1 What is a Public Investment Framework? 5 7.2 Manenberg PIF Elements 142 1.2 Acknowledgments 6 7.3 Manenberg Public Investment Framework 145 1.3 Executive summary 6 7.4 Manenberg precincts 150 2. Methodology 8 7.5 Manenberg PIF Projects matrix 150 2.1 VPUU vision 9 2.2 VPUU strategy 10 8. Youth and Lifestyle Campus [YLC] 152 8.1 Contextual background 153 2.3 Participatory process 12 8.2 The Youth and Lifestyle Campus concept and strategy 158 2.4 Engagement with the community 13 8.3 The Youth and Lifestyle Campus projects matrix 164 2.5 Engagement with CoCT and WCG line departments 16 8.4 The Youth and Lifestyle Campus elements 165 3. Why Manenberg 17 8.5 The Youth and Lifestyle Campus phasing 170 3.1 About Manenberg 18 8.6 The Youth and Lifestyle Campus precincts 174 3.2 Some data about Manenberg 20 3.3 Crime in Manenberg 23 9. Urban hub possible scenarios 222 9.1 What is an urban hub? 223 3.4 Some historical snapshots of Manenberg 36 9.2 Nyanga Station Urban Hub 224 4. Community Profile, CAP, walkabouts and visioning exercises 38 9.3 Future regional hospital possible scenarios 230 4.1 Community Profile 39 10. Landscape and urban design guidelines 232 4.2 CAP Projects Matrix 40 10.1 Urban design guidelines 233 4.3 Manenberg walkabouts 50 10.2 Landscape materials and elements 234 4.4 Manenberg community’s visioning exercises 58 5. Proposed and on-going projects 66 5.1 Existing spatial frameworks 67 5.2 WCG and CoCT proposed and on-going projects 67 MANENBERG PUBLIC INVESTMENT FRAMEWORK 2 3 1.1 What is a Public Investment The PIF combines spatial planning strategies with process- management based on a partnership approach between the Framework? public sector led by CoCT and the citizens of Manenberg led by the Manenberg Steering Committee. It uses the services The City of Cape Town [CoCT] has identified Manenberg as of an intermediary to facilitate this process of a delivery a priority area for upgrading and investment via the Mayoral model that is defined by citizen engagement, working towards Urban Regeneration Programme [MURP]. Violence Prevention a whole of society approach where the principles of the through Urban Upgrade NPC [VPUU NPC] has been appointed Integrated Development Plan of the CoCT are grounded on a by the CoCT to develop the Public Investment Framework [PIF] neighbourhood level in order to meet the needs of the citizens. for Manenberg during the first months of 2015 as part of the VPUU Programme Phase 4. The scope of the PIF is to provide an integrated public investment strategy based on a participatory planning approach which aligns in a synergic way to the efforts of municipal [CoCT] and provincial [WCG] Line Departments. In reading Manenberg’s challenges and potential, derived from a community diagnostic of the current status quo and following the Community Action Plan [CAP] process conducted by the VPUU NPC in strong collaboration with the MURP team; the PIF identifies and prioritises projects for implementation in the following financial years; covering short, medium and long term investments. These projects are clustered into: • Community cohesion projects to increase the social capital, • Violence prevention projects, • Protection projects for a safe community and; • Research and Development projects to establish evidence of the difference achieved through the programmatic approach. • In traditional ways, these projects would be called capital projects and operational projects or investment in infrastructure and investment in people. The objectives of the Manenberg PIF include: • Establishing an ongoing active participation with the community, 1. Introduction • A synergic coordination amongst the municipal and provincial line departments, • Identifying the role of Manenberg neighbourhood within the metropolitan context, • Identifying challenges and opportunities, • Identifying strategic projects and programmes for public investment. This document has been compiled in a short period of 6 months, taking into consideration the community’s challenges and proposals consolidated in the CAP, as well as the proposed and on-going projects from several municipal and provincial line departments. During this period, serious gang violence erupted which impacted on the processes since the professional team and officials were not able to access the area as desired. The local leadership has been extremely supportive in ensuring that the process continued despite the problems in Manenberg. The spatial and socio-economic readings grounding the proposed interventions focuses on the suburbs of Manenberg, its surroundings and its role within the metropole. The challenges which Manenberg is facing are extreme, but certainly not exceptional within in the metropolitan context. In this respect, the PIF aims to also explore pilot projects, programmes and design strategies which could be replicated in other areas. MANENBERG PUBLIC INVESTMENT FRAMEWORK 4 5 outcomes in order to ensure smooth implementation, 1.2 Acknowledgments 1.3 Executive summary operation, management and maintenance of the proposed development. This report has been compiled by the VPUU NPC in As part of the MURP, Manenberg has been identified as • Detail planning, budgeting and supply chain management collaboration with Tarna Klitzner Landscape Architect [TKLA]. an area in dire need of urban transformation, following the processes. The report is the result of a collaborative process which VPUU methodology. This will be achieved by building social • Run immediate implementation of elements from the CAP involved the following stakeholders: cohesion as a precondition for successful urban infrastructural and the PIF. Prioritising investment in social cohesion development, with the aim to improve the Quality of Life of through investment in people and organisations is proposed. • Manenberg Steering Committee [MB SC], Including the improvement of the safety of spaces, after citizens through a partnership approach. Over the past months, • CoCT under the leadership of SPUD and MURP and, school programmes, leadership trainings, mediation courses • WCG under the leadership of DEADP. two guiding documents were developed: the Community Action and to establish a Social Development Fund [SDF] to support There have been a number of workshops that assisted and Plan and the Public Investment Framework. The implementation community-based initiatives. guided the development of this document namely: of both the CAP and the PIF needs to fulfill the vision of the community by moving Manenberg from a dormitory area to a • The community processes such as the Profiling Workshop, A high level costing of the PIF has been included in the leadership training sessions and the CAP; safe, secure, diverse, vibrant, innovative, attractive, cohesive, document amounting to R7.5bilion in total; that is R3.8billion • The walkabouts and design workshops with the community in and sustainable neighbourhood. Manenberg; from CoCT and National Government sources and R3.7billion • The diagnostic workshop with CoCT line departments hosted In order to achieve this vision, a true participatory process from WCG. by SPUD/MURP; has been engaged upon around trust building and partnership • The Intergovernmental Technical Working Group, in particular in order to shift the government’s delivery model towards a around the proposed Regional Hospital and the PIF at large, delivery model that takes guidance from the needs of the hosted by DEADP; • Numerous one on one discussions where people shared citizens, ensuring that community leadership and public sector valuable information. leadership are partners in the development. The CoCT and In particular, we want to thank Patsy Daniels and Jonathan WCG make use of an intermediary as a facilitator to assist in Jansen from the Manenberg SC for assisting with numerous the design and implementation phase of this process. community engagements, visits and verification processes in The above mentioned intentions are best achieved through two guiding our team. main categories of intervention -investment in people or non- The authors would like to thank the Manenberg SC as well infrastructure projects and capital investment or infrastructure as the CoCT and WCG officials and political leadership for their development. This PIF intends to provide guidance for both trust in the participatory process and the professional work of types of interventions. It is recognised that there are a number the team in developing a guiding document for the regeneration of interventions that have an impact on both capital and people of Manenberg. investment; such as Operation, Maintenance and Management of spaces. The PIF presents defining elements for the restructuring of Manenberg and proposes to follow the Urban Hub typology of the National Treasury to upgrade the neighbourhoods. The two main defining elements are: firstly, the Youth Lifestyle Campus, that aims to particularly address the social ills amongst the youth and to provide a lasting legacy by building sustainable communities; and secondly the Nyanga Station Urban Hub which is the main Public