Section 32 Part II Statutory and General Section 32 PART II Statutory Requirements and Policy 1 Section 32 Part II Statutory and General 1 Contents 2 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................5 2.1 Structure of Section 32 Part II ....................................................................................................................5 3 Acts of Parliament ..............................................................................................................................................6 3.1 Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) ....................................................................................................6 3.1.1 District Plan Rules ...............................................................................................................................7 3.2 Hauraki Marine Park Act 2000 ....................................................................................................................7 3.3 Hauraki Treaty of Waitangi Settlement Act (upcoming) ............................................................................9 3.4 National Policy Statements and Environmental Standards ..................................................................... 10 3.4.1 Coastal Policy Statement 2010 ........................................................................................................ 10 3.4.2 National Policy Statement for Electricity Transmission 2011.......................................................... 10 3.4.3 National Policy Statement for Renewable Electricity Generation 2011.......................................... 10 3.4.4 National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management 2011 ....................................................... 10 3.4.5 National Environmental Standard for Telecommunications Facilities 2009 ................................... 11 3.4.6 National Environmental Standard for Sources of Human Drinking Water 2009............................. 11 3.4.7 National Policy Statement on Indigenous Biodiversity (NPS proposed) ......................................... 11 4 Statutory Background ...................................................................................................................................... 12 4.1 New Zealand Biodiversity Strategy 2000 ................................................................................................. 12 4.2 New Zealand Tourism Strategy 2015 ...................................................................................................... 13 4.3 Regional Policy Statement ....................................................................................................................... 14 4.4 District Policies and Plans ........................................................................................................................ 14 4.4.1 Coromandel Peninsula Blueprint ..................................................................................................... 14 4.4.2 Coromandel Peninsula Local Area Blueprint ................................................................................... 18 4.4.3 Community Plans ............................................................................................................................. 19 4.4.4 Thames-Coromandel District Council Policy Directions .................................................................. 20 4.4.5 Iwi Management Plans .................................................................................................................... 20 4.5 Thames Urban Development Strategy .................................................................................................... 21 5 Key Policy Direction for Plan Review ............................................................................................................... 23 5.1 Coastal Policy Statement policy .............................................................................................................. 23 5.2 Regional Policy Statement ....................................................................................................................... 23 5.3 Hauraki Gulf Marine Park Act .................................................................................................................. 24 5.3.1 Hauraki Gulf Marine Park Act policy ................................................................................................ 24 2 Section 32 Part II Statutory and General 5.3.2 Case law ........................................................................................................................................... 26 5.3.3 'Governing the Gulf' guidance ......................................................................................................... 26 5.3.4 Proposed Policy Framework ............................................................................................................ 29 5.4 Council direction ...................................................................................................................................... 29 5.4.1 2010 – 2012 Major Goals and Objectives ........................................................................................ 29 5.4.2 18 February 2011 – District Plan Review Committee meeting ....................................................... 29 5.4.3 6 April 2011 – District Plan Review Committee meeting ................................................................ 29 5.4.4 12 September 2011 – District Plan Review Committee meeting .................................................... 30 5.5 Monitoring and Technical Reports .......................................................................................................... 30 5.5.1 Monitoring and Evaluation Plan ...................................................................................................... 30 5.5.2 Plan Logic Mapping .......................................................................................................................... 31 6 Analysis of current Plan provisions.................................................................................................................. 32 7 Explanation of New Plan Provisions ................................................................................................................ 33 7.1 Structural changes ................................................................................................................................... 33 7.2 User-friendly drafting .............................................................................................................................. 34 7.3 Spatial location of rules ........................................................................................................................... 34 7.4 E-Plan ....................................................................................................................................................... 34 7.5 Methods .................................................................................................................................................. 35 7.6 Two-tier hierarchy ................................................................................................................................... 35 7.7 Rule structure .......................................................................................................................................... 35 7.8 Permitted activities ................................................................................................................................. 35 7.9 Controlled activities ................................................................................................................................. 36 7.10 Assessment criteria ................................................................................................................................. 37 7.11 Innominate Activities ............................................................................................................................... 37 7.12 Notification Requirements ...................................................................................................................... 38 7.13 Cross-zone issues ..................................................................................................................................... 39 8 Plan approach to certain activities .................................................................................................................. 39 8.1 Minor Units .............................................................................................................................................. 39 8.2 Visitor accommodation ........................................................................................................................... 41 8.3 Noise provision changes .......................................................................................................................... 43 8.3.1 Alternatives Considered .................................................................................................................. 44 8.3.2 Proposed Approach ......................................................................................................................... 48 3 Section 32 Part II Statutory and General 8.4 Festivals, 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