Composite Map
This composite map shows the overall spatial direction to the city’s future growth and development. It uses the land use classification system established by the Cape Town Spatial Development Framework: Download

• Spatial planning categories
• Transport infrastructure
• Major land-extensive precautionary areas
• Development edges
• Conceptual designations

Route designations
This map shows a citywide accessibility grid which is supported by appropriate long-term land uses and an integrated, citywide public transport system: Download

• Prioritised and proposed railway lines 
• Integrated Rapid Transport (IRT) routes and stations 
• Existing and proposed activity-, developer– and connector routes 
• Development edges
• Airports and harbours 

Economic activity 
This map illustrates the hierarchy of business nodes and industrial areas which spatially anchor the metropolitan region’s economy. It also prioritises marginal areas in need of economic integration: Download

• Significant industrial and business nodes
• Key transport infrastructure
• Priority action areas for regeneration and public investmentajor land-extensive precautionary areas

Areas potentially suited to urban development 
This map indicates land that is potentially suitable for urban development within and beyond the urban edge: Download

• Existing and proposed railways
• Emergency planning zones for Koeberg Nuclear Power Station
• Coastal edge and proposed coastal nodes'
• Land which is potentially developable in the short/medium- and long-term

Major land extensive precautionary areas 
This map shows areas where future development is constrained by locally-specific natural or human-made local hazards: Download

• Urban and coastal edge
• Rivers, floodlines and flood-prone areas
• Aviation noise cones and height restrictions
• Landfill sites, noxious industries, cemeteries and mineral depositss
• Emergency planning zones for the Koeberg Nuclear Power Station

Biodiversity Network
This map indicates the metropolitan biodiversity network, which is to be protected and enhanced.
The level of protection assigned to natural fauna and flora in a particular area ranges from ‘critical’ to
‘support’ areas: Download

• Protected areas
• Critical biodiversity and environmental support areasMajor land-extensive precautionary areas
• Buffer areas
• Biosphere boundaries and priority conservaytion action areas

Aquatic network
This map shows the city’s coastal, surface- and groundwater systems. These should not unduly compromised
by urban development or other human activities like fishing or recreation: Download

• Rivers and streams
• Wetlands, protected marine areas and restricted zones
• Aquifer recharge areas

Agricultural areas to be protected
This map identifies productive farming areas which should be protected from urban development
and enhanced as part of the city’s rural environment: Download

• High potential and unique agricultural land
• Agricultural areas of significant value (incl. Philippi Horticultural Area)
• Smallholdings
• Rural areas, mountains