11Goals

1. All persons exercising or performing functions, duties, or powers under this Act must seek to achieve the following goals subject to sections 12 and 45:

2. to ensure that land use does not unreasonably affect others, including by separating incompatible land uses:
3. to support and enable economic growth and change by enabling the use and development of land:
4. to create well-functioning urban and rural areas:
5. to enable competitive urban land markets by making land available to meet current and expected demand for business and residential use and development:
6. to plan and provide for infrastructure to meet current and expected demand:
7. to maintain public access to and along the coastal marine area, lakes, and rivers:
8. to protect from inappropriate development the identified values and characteristics of—
   1. areas of high natural character within the coastal environment, wetlands, and lakes and rivers and their margins:
   2. outstanding natural features and landscapes:
   3. sites significant historic heritage:
9. to safeguard communities from the effects of natural hazards through proportionate and risk-based planning:
10. to provide for Māori interests through—
    1. Māori participation in the development of national instruments, spatial planning, and land use plans; and
    2. the identification and protection of sites of significance to Māori (including wāhi tapu, water bodies, or sites in or on the coastal marine area); and
    3. enabling the development and protection of identified Māori land.

11. In subsection (1)(g), identified means identified in a national instrument, plan, or proposed plan.