WORK IN PROGRESS
TOWARDS EFFICIENT,
SUSTAINABLE CITY
DEVELOPMENT
By the: Growth Management Branch,
Spatial Planning and Urban Design Department
Date: September 2007
Work undertaken thus far
Planning for Future Cape Town & the identification of
settlement growth options IDP - The spatial alignment of capital budgets
Mapping of infrastructure capacities
Our starting point
We want to:
Improve long-term and shortterm spatial growth
management
Goal:
Shared Growth
And
Development
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Ensure that our plans are
implemented
5 YEAR PLAN FOR T HE CIT Y
Improve public investment
decision making
Provide the private sector with
information that will inform their
investment decisions
Urban
Efficiency
•Sustainable Urban Infrastructure
and Services
•Public T ransport Systems
•Integrated Human Settlements
•Safety and Security
•Shared Economic Growth and
Development
•Health, Social and Human Capital
Development
•Good Governance and Regulatory
Reform
Institutional
Efficiency
IDP Strategy 07/08 – 12/13
Where we are heading towards
A Spatial Development Framework for Cape Town and 8
District Plans
IDP Spatial Strategy
Laying some of the foundations for a city development
strategy
Spatial Development Framework:
Settlement Growth Options
REGIONAL CONTEXT
The city’s functional area
• Recognise the functional
linkages between the
metropolitan region and the
adjacent towns
• Natural resource base biodiversity
• Service infrastructure –
water, energy, waste
• Commuter belt – public
transport
• Social services – health,
education etc
• Tourism & recreation
REGIONAL CONTEXT
Regional economic infrastructure
• Recognise the regional
nature of the primary
economic backbone
• Ports – Cape Town &
Saldanah
• Airport – current and
future location
• National transport
linkages – freight logistics
& tourism
KEY POINTS OF THE ARGUMENT
Consolidate, protect and improve access to
natural resources
•
Extend and consolidate
Metropolitan Open Space
System (C’MOSS): protect
biodiversity areas, river
corridors & agricultural land
•
Create a metropolitan system
of green spaces; agricultural
zones, Metropolitan Parks
and high quality local open
spaces
1
FIVE KEY POINTS OF THE ARGUMENT
Establish an equitable pattern of access
•
Move away from historical
focus of all transport routes
and infrastructure on the Cape
Town CBD
•
Establish an access pattern
that serves all parts of the City
equally well
X
2
FIVE KEY POINTS OF THE ARGUMENT
Sustainable & accessible economic
opportunities
•
Develop a more accessible and
opportunity rich “economic heart” for
Cape Town
•
Focus public investment and incentives
in this zone
•
Promote affordable housing in this zone
•
Establish a high quality, reliable and
attractive public transport system in this
zone
3
FIVE KEY POINTS OF THE ARGUMENT
Integrated settlement development path
•
Ensure that new development is
planned and aligned with
infrastructure investment
•
Strategic settlement sites along
development axes
•
Reinforce integration through mixed
use mixed income development based
on sound economic backbone
•
Reinforce metropolitan access
system, especially public transport
•
Creating Sustainable neighborhoods
4
FIVE KEY POINTS OF THE ARGUMENT
Create new special places
•
Clearly identify coastal
development nodes and protect
valuable natural areas
• “Meet the coast” and optimise
the social and economic
potential of coastal areas at
strategic points:
• City-wide system of coastal
development nodes & resorts
• Create new nodes or resorts
adjacent to inadequately
served communities
•
Create new inland special cultural,
sports and entertainment centres
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Draft long-term spatial development strategy
Concept
Provisional Application of Concept
Settlement growth options
BUSINESS AS USUAL
Accommodate existing development
trends
Densification 65 000 units/ 20 years (3
259 units/p.a.)
Significant new infrastructure required
DIRECTED GROWTH
To shift growth away from the high
potential agricultural land and where
economic growth dynamic exists
Densification 30 000 units/ 20 years
(1 500 units/ p.a.)
77 000 units beyond edge
Focused infrastructure development
Settlement growth options
CONTAINED CITY
To contain development within the
footprint of Cape Town
Densification in existing areas -110
000 units/ 20 years (5 500 units/ p.a.)
Development of vacant land within the
City’s footprint
Upgrading of infrastructure capacity in
older areas
NEW TOWN & REGIONAL GROWTH
Develop a regional urbanization strategy
Contain Cape Town’s growth through infill
development & directed growth
Direct 20% of the Cape Town’s growth
(109,000 households) to a “New Town”
within the region
Founded on “economic drivers” / support
strategic economic infrastructure
IDP: The spatial alignment of “ideal”
5-year capital budgets
Essential Capital
Investment: Water
Services Department
•
Bulk water supply
Berg River related pipes, reservoirs and treatment works
Blaauwberg, Plattekloof Welgemoed & Eerste River-Macasser
new demand
•
Bulk Water Reticulation
Reticulation upgrading and pressure management:
Southern Suburbs, Bottelary, Fisantekraal, Mitchell’s Plain,
Athlone, Du Noon & Atlantis
Reticulation new demand: AECI & Stikland – Durbanville
area and Blaauwberg East
•
Waste water treatment works (WWTW)
Most of the WWTW need maintenance and upgrading. The
Bellville and Kraaifontein WWTW are beyond capacity.
Capacity for new demand is required at Potsdam &/or
Melkbos, Wildevolevlei, Macasser, Atlantis and the proposed
Fisantekraal WWTW
•
Waste water reticulation
Economic backbone, Mitchell’s Plain, Bottelary & Durbanville
area
•
Treated effluent reticulation
Athlone, Scottsdene & Macasser WWTW
Essential Capital
Investment: Electricity
Services Department
ESKOM
•
Eskom major new capacity investments
Acacia Park, Sarepta/ Belhar and Firgrove
•
Lourensford-Firgrove line and Gordons Bay
supply are under pressure.
Essential Capital
Investment: Solid
Waste Management
Department
• New bulk waste manage ment
Atlantis/ Kabaskraal
• New transfer stations
Swartklip, Helderberg Region, Tygerberg
Region, Oostenberg Region, Vissershok
landfill
• Materials recovery facility
Athlone and Coastal Park landfill
• Closure and rehabilitation of full/ disused
land fills
Vissershok (LFS & North LFS), Coastal Park,
Bellville, Brackenfell, Faure, Swartklip,
Helderberg & Table View.
Capital Investment
Related to Integrated
Human Settlement
Development
•
Social Development
Creches, sport complexes, sports fields,
swimming pools, public toilets, beach
facilities, community centres and general
allocation to housing projects
•
City Parks
Metropolitan parks, district parks,
recreational areas, river greening,
cemeteries and general allocation to
housing projects
•
Health
Clinic buildings and fences, meat market
stalls and air pollution control equipment
•
City Spatial Development
Dignified Places and 2010 viewing sites
Infrastructure
Investment by Other
Spheres of
Government: Housing
Subsidies
Projects requiring substantial bulk
infrastructure investment
• Pelikan Park
• Wingfield
• ?Blaauwberg East
• ?Darwin Road corridor
• ?Sir Lowry’s Village
Infrastructure
Investment by Other
Spheres of Government
Upgrading of Cape Town Airport
Upgrading of the following rail network:
- Southern Suburbs
- Cape Flats
- Khayelitsha
- Mitchell’s Plain
- Cape Town – Monte Vista –
Kraaifontein
- Cape Town, Athlone, Heideveld and Langa
station upgrades
Realignme nt of the N2
Upgrading and extension of Cape Town
Port
Atlantis Gas Turbines
Private Sector Capital Investment
•
•
76% residential investment ( 30% home improvements and 46% new flats and houses)
24% industrial and commercial development ( new and improvements)
Draft 5-Year Spatial
Development
Strategy
Limited expansion of city foot print
Reinforcement of the economic
backbone
Alignment of the public transport and
road network improvements with land
use intensification and residential
densification
Mitchell’s Plain/ Khayelitsha Urban
Renewal Programme
Special urban places: Possibly Athlone
Power Station, Kaptein’s Klip/ Mnandi
Coastal Node
2010 facilities: Green Point
Stadium,practice venues and viewing
venues
Mapping of infrastructure capacities
WATER: BULK & RETICULATION CAP ACITY
CONSRAINTS < 10 YRS & INVESTMENT AREAS
IN THE NEXT 3 YEARS
WASTE WATER: WWTW & RETICULATION
CAPACITY CONSRAINTS < 10 YRS &
INVESTMENT AREAS IN THE NEXT 3 YEARS
ELECTRICITY CAPACITY CONSTRAINTS
STORM WATER CAPACITY CONSTRANTS
< 10 YRS – IF NO CAPITAL INV ESTMENT
< 10 YRS IF NOT CAPITAL INV ESTMENT
CURRENT ROAD NETWORK CAPACITY CONSTRAINTS
ANTICIPATED INFRASTRUCTURE CAPACITY
CONSTRAINTS IF THERE IS NO
CAPITAL INVESTMENT IN THE NEXT 5 YEARS
ANTICIPATED 5-YEAR INFRASTRUCTURE
CAPACITY CONSTRAINTS NOT COV ERED BY THE
3-YEAR BUDGET
ANTICIPATED 5-YEAR INFRASTRUCTURE
CAPACITY CONSTRAINTS NOT COV ERED BY THE
3-YEAR BUDGET
ANTICIPATED INFRASTRUCTURE CAPACITY
CONSTRAINTS IF THERE IS NO CAPITAL
INVESTMENT IN THE NEXT 5 - 10 YEARS
DRAFT IDP SPATIAL DEV ELOPMENT STRATEGY
IN THE NEXT 5 YEARS
INFRASTRUCTURE CAPACITY CONSTRAINTS
NEXT 5 YEARS NOT COV ERED BY THE 3-YEAR
CAPITAL BUDGET
Questions that need to answered
What should our growth management strategy be?
How should public investment be directed to support this
strategy?
Questions that need to answered
How do we attract and try to spatially direct private sector
investment?
What mechanisms other than the urban edge and residential
intensification can be used to manage city growth?
Thank you
Let us work together
for a better city