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Up until 3 July 2022 you can tell us what you think about the plan using our interactive maps. To take part, click the icons on our online interactive maps to read about our key projects. Tell us if you like/dislike them, join the discussion by adding your comments/suggestions or fill in the survey alongside the maps.
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You can also email any feedback to us at otumoetai2050@tauranga.govt.nz.
A need for more housing
Central government has directed us to provide for more housing within our existing residential areas. This includes enabling more housing to be built at greater densities, (number of homes per hectare) and heights around the city centre and within our existing urban areas across the city such as the Te Papa Peninsula and the Ōtūmoetai Peninsula.
Alongside this, Council is also required to implement the Resource Management Enabling Housing Supply Amendment Act 2021 and the National Policy Statement on Urban Development. This includes allowing people to build up to three dwellings of up to three storeys on most sections in residential zones, without needing to obtain a resource consent.
These changes will also apply to the Ōtūmoetai Peninsula, which is why we are preparing a spatial plan to ensure we plan for this future by making it easier to move around, provide open space and public amenities that best support the community, and commercial/retail centres that supply the goods and services that the surrounding community need and want.
Visible change across the Ōtūmoetai Peninsula will not happen all at once. It is going to take time and will be subject to market demand and the decisions of individual property owners in terms of what they wish to do with their land. There will be a number of location-specific restrictions that may further reduce the level of residential intensification that can occur. For example, viewshafts to Mauao are protected in some locations and the building height limits that protect those viewshafts will need to be complied with.
In August 2022, Council will notify a plan change to bring these rules into the Tauranga City Plan – the rule book for how our city grows. At that time, you can make submissions on the proposed rules. In the meantime further information about Changing the city plan to enable housing supply project can be found here.