Planning & Urban Design Forum - Matakana Plan Changes 7 July 2011

Planning & Urban
  Design Forum

Matakana Plan Changes
       7 July 2011

Three related Plan Changes required to implement the Matakana
Sustainable Development Plan

•   Plan Change 64 – Matakana Village
•   Plan Change 148 – Matakana Country Park
•   Plan Change 163 – Morris & James Pottery

Matakana

Overview

•   Matakana Sustainable Development Plan adopted June 2006

•   Draft Plan Change prepared to reflect the Sustainable Development
    Plan

•   Consultation undertaken October 2010 to early 2011

•   Significant community response

•   Draft Plan Changes modified to reflect community concerns

What the Sustainable Development Plan said…
 • Sustainable Development Plan very focused on achieving a particular
  “Matakana Style”

 • Maintain the village character by managing building form through design,
  scale and appearance of buildings

 • Contain the village size/keep the village feel

 • Controlled or restricted discretionary activity for all buildings

 • Avoid bulk retail

 • Encourage tourist related activities

 • Improve linkages between residential and retail areas

 • Design Palette: addresses urban design, architectural design and
  landscaping – identifies a ‘preferred Matakana Style’

What Draft Plan Change 64 – Matakana Village
                    did…
Draft Plan Change 64 – Feedback requested -
September 2010 (Clause 3 consultation)
• New Special Zone – ‘Matakana Village’
• Covers existing commercial, countryside living
and residential areas

4 New Policy Areas:
- Matakana Village Heart Policy Area
-Matakana Village Service Policy Area
- Matakana Village Residential Policy Area
- Matakana Lifestyle Policy Area
* A set of Matakana Style Guidelines relating
to all policy areas introduced

Plan Change 64 Continued
•   Resource consent required for all buildings in all policy areas

•   All buildings to comply with a detailed set of built form character
    development controls, as well as compliance with ‘Matakana Style
    Guidelines’ in all policy areas.

•   Greater flexibility in terms of permitted number of guests for visitor
    accommodation and homestay activities.

•   No Integrated Residential Developments

•   No bulk retail in Village Heart and Service Policy Areas

•   Flooding restrictions

Wastewater Enabling Development
•   Matakana will connect to the Omaha Flats Treatment Plant

•   The up-grade will cater for an ultimate population of 2,000 people

•   With 2.5 people/household this will provide up to 800 connections

•   106 existing properties in Residential Zone

•   Potentially 294 new sites under proposed rules (subdivision down to
    800m2 – giving a total of 400 sites including existing and potential)

•   Work will begin late 2011 and be completed by April/May 2012.

Community Feedback on Draft Plan Changes
22 submissions received – 9 of which related to the design guidelines and all
opposed, only one submission received in support

Subsequent meetings followed with individual or groups of submitters as well
as Matakana School and architects

Key Issues Raised:
• Strong opposition to the use of built form rules in the development control and
performance standards
• Concern that the rules are too rigid and prescriptive and result in bad development
and that greater flexibility in design and style with clear urban design principles would
result in a better outcome
• Concern about lack of alternative living opportunities i.e. no integrated residential
developments and a minimum residential site size of 800m2.

Approach in Response to Feedback
Having considered various options, the recommended approach is:

1.   ‘Water down’ the Plan Change i.e. remove style guidelines, include IRDs
     and include some basic urban design principles
2.   Minor Plan Change – extend existing zones, address flooding areas,
     provide indicative roads and include some specific urban design rules.

Amended Plan Changes Now Proposed
A more basic rule package is proposed

-   No more Special Zone, instead retain the existing zoning and apply a ‘Matakana
    Overlay’ over the area of land subject to the MVSDP (minor zone extensions)
     –   Matakana Village Residential Policy Area will now be Residential Medium Intensity
         (Township Policy Area)
     –   Matakana Village Lifestyle Policy Area will now be Countryside Living Town
     –   Matakana Village Heart Policy Area will now be Retail Service
         (Pedestrian Town Centre Policy Area)
     –   Matakana Village Servicing Policy Area will now be Mixed Business

     – No requirement to comply with the ‘Matataka Style Guidelines’, these will now be
       a non-statutory document.

Matakana Countryside Living Overlay
• Minor extension to the existing Countryside Living Town zone.
• Farmstay/homestay increased from 10 – 15 persons as a permitted activity
• No requirement to comply with the design guidelines e.g. colour, materials etc.
• Additional rules relating to maximum site coverage, impervious surfaces and
accessway

Residential Medium Intensity Overlay
•    Matakana Village Residential Policy Area
     will now be Residential Medium Intensity
    (Township Policy Area)

•   No requirement to comply with design
    guidelines relating to built form/character

•   Provide for Integrated Residential Activities
    on sites within 200m of the edge of the Retail
     Service Zone.
                                                     Residential sites within
                                                     200m of the Retail
                                                     Service Zone

                                                      Retail Service Zone

Residential Zone Continued …
•   Visitor accommodation for up to 15 persons as a restricted discretionary activity.

•   Increase the number of people able to be involved in boarding houses/homestay
    activities from 10 to 15 as a permitted activity

•   Additional high controls

•   Additional rules relating to:
    - impervious surfaces
    - vehicle crossings
    - fencing in front yards
    - landscaping
    - secluded private open space and over looking

•   Additional subdivision rules relating to solar orientation, cul-de-sac and street trees
    which seek to result in better subdivision design.

Retail Service & Mixed Business Zones
•   What was the Matakana Village Heart Policy Area will now
    be Retail Service (Pedestrian Township Policy Area)

•   What was the Matakana Village Service Policy Area will
    now be Mixed Business

•   Minor changes to the objectives, policies and rules to
    discourage large format bulk retail activities

•   Exclusion of drive-through activities and hospitals on
    business zone land

•   Amend existing maximum height rules which restrict the
    height of buildings or parts of buildings within a 40m setback
    of Matakana Valley Road within the Mixed Business zone to
    9m instead of 12m.

•   No requirement to comply with the design guidelines.

Indicative Roads

Other Changes
• New Restricted Discretionary Activity (Chapter 14) relating to areas of
 land identified as being subject to inundation/flooding

• New Restricted Activity (Chapter 14) relating to buildings on Leigh Road
  in the Residential Zone

• More restrictive set of rules relation to signage within the Matakana
 Village Overlay Area to be included within Chapter 16 of the District
 Plan.

Plan Change 148 – Matakana Country Park
MCP is currently one single site.
The following activities currently occur on the site:
- Equestrian centre
                                                           Leigh Road
- Blacksmith operation
- Restaurant/café
- Petting zone, children’s playground & mini train
  track
- Weekly farmers market
- Church
                                                                            Matakana
- New Years Eve outdoor entertainment event                                Country Park
- Art gallery
- Circuit room/exercise studio
- Café within the woolshed
- Consent for 12 special events on the site and 12
  function within the woolshed.
                                                        Matakana Village

MCP Continued
Issues associated with requested activities
-    Not of a rural/tourist theme
-    High traffic generators
-    Contrary to the objectives and policies of Chapter 7 – Rural and the Regional
     Policy Statement.

Plan Change 148
Will provide a scheduled activity over the site for the following extensions to existing
       permitted or consented activities
-      An increase in the maximum number of stalls associated with the weekly
       farmers markets from 80 to 100 stalls
-      An increase in the seating capacity of the restaurant from 95 people to 100
-      An increase in the hours of operation of the restaurant from 11pm on Friday
       and Saturday nights to 12am (midnight).

Morris and James Pottery – Plan Change 163

    A scheduled activity currently applies to the site.

    Plan Change 163 proposes to amend the permitted activities provided by
    the existing Scheduled Activity 107 to allow a small amount of flexibility to
    permit the hosting of events and tourism tours.

Matakana Village

                                                           Morris & James Pottery