Online meetings about spatial vision, development priorities for Cape Town continue this week
10 May 2021
The draft integrated Spatial Development Frameworks (SDFs) and Environmental Management Frameworks (EMFs) for the eight planning districts across Cape Town are available for public comment until 6 June 2021. Residents are invited to attend online meetings where they can ask officials questions. This week online meetings are taking place for the following planning districts: Khayelitsha, Mitchells Plain and the Greater Blue Downs Area; Blaauwberg; and Helderberg.
The draft district SDFs and EMFs set the planning and spatial vision for the City’s eight planning districts, namely: Table Bay; Blaauwberg; Southern; Northern; Cape Flats; Helderberg; Tygerberg; Mitchells Plain, Khayelitsha and Greater Blue Downs.
The draft integrated district SDFs and EMFs are available on the City’s website at: http://bit.do/SDFReview
Kindly refer to the map right at the bottom to find your district.
The online meetings will take place as follows:
Residents will have the opportunity to ask City officials questions during the online meetings.
A recorded presentation and documents for each district are uploaded on the City's website. The public is encouraged to watch the presentation and read the documents at home, and to send comments via email, or to submit these online at: http://bit.do/SDFReview.
Should you have questions about the documents, we encourage you to:
What are the district SDFs about?
The draft district SDFs entail the City’s response to managing urban growth on a district level and in a manner that is sustainable, resilient, and equitable. It determines how the City should intervene on a local planning level to mitigate against constraints, and to enhance opportunities that will improve residents’ quality of living.
The plans also focus on the nature and location of development on a local level to promote economic growth and job creation. It will guide the City’s decisions on how and where the private sector and public sector can and should pursue developments; how land should be used; and where we should protect our natural environment and resources to become more resilient to climate change and other shocks, prevent urban sprawl, but also ensure that we direct our resources to vulnerable communities.
Once approved by the City Council, the district SDFs and EMFs will guide future decisions about developments, land uses, and interventions to create integrated and inclusive communities across Cape Town.
The review of the City’s spatial development frameworks started in 2019, and is based on the Baseline and Analysis Report (BaAR) for each district. The BaARs were updated over the past months with the latest available information about the state of the population, environment, development, economy and property market in the planning districts, inclusive of the challenges, needs and opportunities on a local planning level.
The draft integrated district SDFs and EMFs also contain a proposal for an Environment Management Instrument that sets out the rules for developments within the boundaries of Atlantis that are proposed to be excluded from the need to obtain environmental authorisation, and for the proposed area to be adopted as a National Environmental Management Act (NEMA) Urban Area.
A separate but related report, the draft Coastal Economic and Spatial Framework (CESF) that sets out recommendations for dealing with our sensitive coastline, is also available for public comment during this time. The draft framework and supporting presentation are also available for download from the City’s website at: http://bit.do/CESFComments.
Published by:
City of Cape Town, Media Office
