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Pursuant to Clause 8D of Schedule 1 of the Resource Management Act 1991, Tauranga City Council hereby gives notice that it has resolved to withdraw Proposed Plan Change 26 - Housing Choice to the Operative Tauranga City Plan.

The plan change being withdrawn relates to the residential intensification of existing urban areas. Its purpose was to enable greater housing choice and residential density in the Suburban Residential and City Living zones.
The reasons for the withdrawal of Proposed Plan Change 26 – Housing Choice (PPC26) are:

• The Resource Management (Enabling Housing Supply and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2021 (Amendment Act) directs tier 1 councils, including Tauranga, to publicly notify an Intensification Planning Instrument by 20 August 2022.
• The geographic extent of where the medium density residential standards must be applied, as required by the Amendment Act, is much wider than what was proposed in PPC26.
• Policy 3(a) in the National Policy Statement on Urban Development (NPS-UD) requires changes to the rule framework within the City Centre Zone which were not considered in PPC26.
• Changes to Policy 3(d) in the NPS-UD require significant changes to enable height and density around commercial centres which were not considered in PPC26.
• Withdrawal enables the relevant parts of PPC26 to be incorporated and re-notified through Proposed Plan Change 33 – Enabling Housing Supply.

Enquiries on this matter can be made to Janine Speedy, Team Leader: City Planning, Tauranga City Council on 07 577 7000.