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80G: Limitations on IPIs and ISPP
or “Rules about how cities can make special plans for more housing”
You could also call this:

“The planning document must clearly show which rules are being changed to allow for more housing.”

When a certain local council tells people about its plan to make more housing, it needs to show some important things. You need to know which parts of the plan include new rules about how many houses can be built in an area. These rules come from a special list called Schedule 3A. The council also needs to show which parts have new goals and ideas about housing, which are also in Schedule 3A.

The council must also point out which old rules in their current plan are being replaced by these new rules, goals, and ideas. This helps you understand what’s changing in your area.

It’s important to know that when the council shows you these things, it’s just to help you understand the changes. This information isn’t actually part of the new plan itself. Once the new plan starts working, the council can remove this extra information if they want to, without needing special permission.

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Next up: 80I: Regulations requiring tier 2 territorial authority to change district plan

or “Rules that tell certain local councils to update their building plans to help with housing shortages”
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Part 5 Standards, policy statements, and plans
Intensification planning instruments and intensification streamlined planning process: Intensification planning instruments

80HIPI must show how MDRS are incorporated

  1. When a specified territorial authority notifies its IPI in accordance with section 80F(1) or (2), it must show in the instrument, for the purposes of sections 77M, 86B, and 86BA—

  2. which provisions incorporate—
    1. the density standards in Part 2 of Schedule 3A; and
      1. the objectives and policies in clause 6 of Schedule 3A; and
      2. which provisions in the operative district plan and any proposed plan are replaced by—
        1. the density standards in Part 2 of Schedule 3A; and
          1. the objectives and policies in clause 6 of Schedule 3A.

          2. The identification of a provision in an IPI as required in subsection (1)—

          3. does not form part of the IPI; and
            1. may be removed, without any further authority than this subsection, by the specified territorial authority once the IPI becomes operative.

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