On exhibition at present is Council’s Planning Proposal for Housing Diversity and it’s well worth a look and even a comment or two. There is no denying that the housing crisis is real. The majority of housing stock in Lake Mac is detached dwellings (84%), and there is a need for more varied and affordable housing types.
Council’s Housing Diversity Planning Proposal states “The basis of the existing policy is to prevent higher intensity infill in the R2 zone and restrict lower intensity infill in the R3 zone, however given the subtle difference between the residential development types, this approach is unnecessarily restrictive. The intensity and character of development can be managed through other controls including maximum building heights, zone objectives and development controls.”
Unfortunately, Council’s track record of utilising “building heights, zone objectives and development controls” to manage the character of a development has often been exceedingly poor and therefore taken an extraordinary amount of community vigilance to ensure that community character is retained, often with outcomes that only exhausted the community members involved. It’s a tough cause when pitted against cashed up developers and professionals. Even when proposing their multi-storey complex on Bath Street at Toronto’s foreshore Council ignored their own planning instruments.
On exhibition until October 14, you can read the whole proposal and make a submission at https://shape.lakemac.com.au/housing-diversity
In the table above, extracted from the Housing Diversity Planning Proposal, the R2 zone, which is the majority of low density residential zoning in our community, is proposed to also be able to accommodate, multi-dwelling housing, residential flat buildings, dual occupancy and semi-detached dwellings. as is the case in the R3, medium density zoned areas.
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