Part 5
Standards, policy statements, and plans
Local authority policy statements and plans:
Intensification requirements in residential zones
77IQualifying matters in applying medium density residential standards and policy 3 to relevant residential zones
A specified territorial authority may make the MDRS and the relevant building height or density requirements under policy 3 less enabling of development in relation to an area within a relevant residential zone only to the extent necessary to accommodate 1 or more of the following qualifying matters that are present:
- a matter of national importance that decision makers are required to recognise and provide for
under
section 6:
- a matter required in order to give effect to a national policy statement (other than the NPS-UD)
or the New Zealand Coastal Policy Statement 2010:
- a matter required to give effect to Te Ture Whaimana o Te Awa o Waikato—the Vision and Strategy
for the Waikato River:
- a matter required to give effect to the
Hauraki Gulf Marine Park Act 2000
or the
Waitakere Ranges Heritage Area Act 2008:
- a matter required for the purpose of ensuring the safe or efficient operation of nationally
significant infrastructure:
- open space provided for public use, but only in relation to land that is open space:
- the need to give effect to a designation or heritage order, but only in relation to land that is
subject to the designation or heritage order:
- a matter necessary to implement, or to ensure consistency with, iwi participation
legislation:
- the requirement in the NPS-UD to provide sufficient business land suitable for low density uses
to meet expected demand:
- any other matter that makes higher density, as provided for by the MDRS or policy 3,
inappropriate in an area, but only if
section 77L
is satisfied.
Notes
- Section 77I: inserted, on , by section 9 of the Resource Management (Enabling Housing Supply and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2021 (2021 No 59).