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80D: What this subpart and Part 6 of Schedule 1 do
or “This part explains how certain councils can quickly make new rules for housing and building.”
You could also call this:

“This explains what a plan to allow more houses in cities means and what it must include.”

In this law, an intensification planning instrument (IPI) is a change to a district plan or a proposed district plan. Here’s what it must do:

You need to include rules for medium density residential standards (MDRS). You also have to follow certain policies from the National Policy Statement on Urban Development (NPS-UD). Which policies you follow depends on what type of area you’re in (tier 1, 2, or 3).

An IPI can also change or add other things to the plan:

You can change rules about financial contributions if you want to. You can add rules to allow papakāinga housing, which is a type of Māori communal living. You can also add other rules that support or follow on from the MDRS and NPS-UD policies.

These other rules can be about lots of different things. They might cover the whole district or be about specific topics like earthworks, fences, infrastructure, or storm water management. They can also be about dividing up land or other important matters that affect how much housing can be built in an area.

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Next up: 80F: Specified territorial authority must notify IPI

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Part 5 Standards, policy statements, and plans
Intensification planning instruments and intensification streamlined planning process: Intensification planning instruments

80EMeaning of intensification planning instrument

  1. In this Act, intensification planning instrument or IPI means a change to a district plan or a variation to a proposed district plan—

  2. that must—
    1. incorporate the MDRS; and
      1. give effect to,—
        1. in the case of a tier 1 territorial authority, policies 3 and 4 of the NPS-UD; or
          1. in the case of a tier 2 territorial authority to which regulations made under section 80I(1) apply, policy 5 of the NPS-UD; or
            1. in the case of a tier 3 territorial authority to which regulations made under section 80K(1) apply, policy 5 of the NPS-UD; and
          2. that may also amend or include the following provisions:
            1. provisions relating to financial contributions, if the specified territorial authority chooses to amend its district plan under section 77T:
              1. provisions to enable papakāinga housing in the district:
                1. related provisions, including objectives, policies, rules, standards, and zones, that support or are consequential on—
                  1. the MDRS; or
                    1. policies 3, 4, and 5 of the NPS-UD, as applicable.

                  2. In subsection (1)(b)(iii), related provisions also includes provisions that relate to any of the following, without limitation:

                  3. district-wide matters:
                    1. earthworks:
                      1. fencing:
                        1. infrastructure:
                          1. qualifying matters identified in accordance with section 77I or 77O:
                            1. storm water management (including permeability and hydraulic neutrality):
                              1. subdivision of land.

                                Notes
                                • Section 80E: inserted, on , by section 10 of the Resource Management (Enabling Housing Supply and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2021 (2021 No 59).