These districts are:

• Table Bay
• Blaauwberg
• Southern
• Northern
• Cape Flats
• Helderberg
• Tygerberg
• Mitchells Plain, Khayelitsha and Greater Blue Downs

The first round of five meetings will be with community leaders from 4 to 7 November 2019.

The City invites you to attend one of these meetings. At these meetings officials will explain:

• the process we will undertake to prepare the SDFs
• how the SDFs affect local developments
• how you can contribute to identify the challenges, needs, and priorities insofar as it relates to planning on a local area level

The dates, venues, and times for the meeting with the community and stakeholder leaders are as follows:

• 4 November 2019 from 19:00 to 20:30, at the Leibrandt van Niekerk Hall in South Road in Table View
• 5 November 2019 from 19:00 to 20:30, at the Retreat Civic Centre on the corner of Retreat and Toring Roads in Retreat 
• 6 November 2019 from 19:00 to 20:30, at the Eyethu Multipurpose Centre on the corner of Walter Sisulu Road and Steve Biko Drive in Khayelitsha 
• 7 November 2019 from 19:00 to 20:30, at the Strand Civic Centre on the corner of Main and Fagan Roads in Strand
• 7 November 2019 from 19:00 to 20:30, at the Parow Civic Centre in Tallent Street in Parow

The second round of about 23 meetings will be with residents from 11 November to 15 December 2019. Information about the venues, dates, times and where residents can get access to the relevant documents will be announced in due course.

Background information:
The City is in the process of updating the spatial development frameworks (SDFs) for the eight planning districts with the latest information about the state of the population, their employment levels and income; the state of the urban and natural environment and heritage; state of development; the supply of and demand for housing; local economy; property market; and current services and infrastructure in these districts.

All of this information is included in a Baseline and Analysis Report (BaAR) for each district, inclusive of the challenges, needs and opportunities on a local planning level.
 
The review of the district SDFs will be based on the BaARs for the respective districts. It is therefore crucial for community leaders and stakeholders in each district to participate in this process. It is also important for the City and residents to consider the current situation in each planning district before we embark on a review of proposals and guidelines of the respective district SDFs.

The district SDFs will be finalised during further rounds of public participation in 2020/2021. These will deal with the concepts and the final proposals.

Once approved by the City Council, the district SDFs will guide future decisions about developments, land uses, and interventions to create integrated and inclusive communities across Cape Town.
 
We will announce the details of the community meetings, as well as how and where to find the background documents in due course.

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