Objective - Promoting an Integrated Transport Network

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1 TauranifaOty Section 4B 4B Purpose of Transportation Provisions The transport network is a significant and essential physical resource for the City and the region which contributes to the social and economic wellbeing of existing and future residents, visitors and businesses. It provides for access to and from one of the country's key ports and a busy airport, and is essential to the continued growth and economic success of the Western Bay of Plenty sub-region. For example, 30% of all rail traffic in the country is associated in some way with the Port of Tauranga and the road network itself provides for the movement of 50% of the cargo shipped through the Port. It is imperative the local road, rail, sea and air transport networks are managed safely, efficiently and effectively to ensure the continued successful development of the area. This requires the integration of land use and subdivision with transport infrastructure to ensure an affordable, safe, responsive and sustainable transport network. In addition to more technical requirements relating to parking, tracking curves and sight lines etc., the Plan seeks to achieve a sustainable and integrated transport network through provisions that: a) Support a shift away from reliance on private motor vehicle use in favour of alternative modes of transport, i.e., walking, cycling and public transport; b) Remove minimum parking requirements within the Tauranga City Centre Zone; c) Provide for the transport implications of land-use and subdivision activities that are relative to the scale of those activities and not purely focused on traffic generation; d) Reduce 'side friction' issues associated with the number of direct accesses to the primary road network. 4B.1 Objectives and Policies for Transportation 4B.1.1 Objective - Promoting an Integrated Transport Network Subdivision, use and development of land facilitates and encourages the use of alternative modes of transport, in particular walking, cycling and public transport. 4B Policy - Reduction of On-Site Parking By considering the reduction of required on-site parking as an opportunity to facilitate alternative modes of transport, but only when having particular regard to: a) The off-site effect of the on-site shortfall does not adversely affect the primary function of the surrounding transport network; b) The proximity of existing public transport facilities to the proposed activity and how the activity proposes to encourage public transport patronage; c) The scope to provide additional bus stops as part of the public transport network that would offset the loss of on-site parking for the proposed activity or existing activities in the immediate vicinity; d) The provision of on-site bicycle parking and accompanying changing and shower facilities, proportional to the reduction of on-site parking; e) The extent of reduction that may be appropriate having regard to Appendix 4L- Parking Reduction Adjustment Factors; f) Provided on-site parking will meet anticipated demand. 4B Policy - Encouraging Alternative Transport By ensuring that land-use and subdivision activities that have significant transport implications or present an opportunity to facilitate alternative modes of transport are designed to provide for walking, cycling and public transport facilities that: a) Address any identified need for new facilities or networks; b) Enhance existing facilities or networks. 4 General Rules Provisions 9 September 2013 Section 4B Page 1 of 12

2 Tauranifa C 4B.1.2 Objective - IVIaintaining a Sustainable Transport Network Transport-related effects of the subdivision, use and development of land do not compromise the integrated, safe, sustainable and efficient function of the transport network within the sub-region. 4B Policy - Use of Land Ensuring the pattern of subdivision, use and development of land occurs in a co-ordinated and comprehensive manner that optimises land availability whilst integrating with the transport network to maintain its safe and efficient function Policy - Maintaining Road Function By ensuring that traffic generation associated with the subdivision, use and development of land does not adversely affect the primary function of roads within the road hierarchy. 4B Policy - Side Friction on Key Strategic Roads By ensuring the continued efficient functioning of these key strategic roads: a) Totara Street; b) Hewletts Road; c) Cameron Road; d) Tara Road; e) Taurikura Drive; f) State Highway 2 (from Tamatea Arikinui Drive end to Wairoa Bridge); g) Motorways and expressways; by avoiding the creation of additional vehicle access points associated with the subdivision, use and development of land. 4B Policy - Access Visibility By ensuring that visibility to or from vehicle access points and intersections is appropriate for the specified legal speed limit of that road Policy - Access Location and Points of Service By ensuring the location of vehicle entry and exit points and / or points of service maintain the safety of pedestrian and vehicle movements within the site and avoid, remedy or mitigate adverse effects on the safe and efficient operation of the transport network (including the function of roads as identified in the road hierarchy). 4B.1.3 Objective - Parking Parking is provided that meets the demand of activities either on-site or in the vicinity to ensure that the safe, sustainable and efficient functioning of the adjoining transport network is maintained and that parking areas provide appropriate stormwater disposal Policy - On-Site Parking Requirements Ensuring that land use activities provide: a) A level of onsite vehicle parking that reflects anticipated demand; b) Bicycle parking that meets the requirements of Appendix 40 - Bicycle Parking Dimensions and Design Requirements, where bicycle parking is proposed to be provided; c) Parking and loading areas that are appropriately located and designed for their intended use; d) On-site parking and loading areas that are configured to provide for the practical and safe movement of vehicles on-site and off-site, and avoid, remedy or mitigate adverse effects on the safe and efficient operation of the transport network (including the function of roads as identified in the road hierarchy). 4 General Rules Provisions 27 February 2015 Section 4B Page 2 of 12

3 ThuranifaCity Policy - On-Site Parking - Pedestrian Safety By ensuring the safe and efficient movement of pedestrians is provided for within on-site parking, access and manoeuvring areas and at vehicle entry/exit points Policy - City Centre Zone Parking Providing fiexibility for land use activities establishing within the City Centre Zone to provide on-site parking at a rate that will meet the actual requirements of the activity in recognition of: a) The availability and role of the public parking resource within the City Centre Zone; e) Access to and an anticipated higher reliance on alternative modes of transport; i) Opportunities for reciprocal on-site parking use where activities generate different peak demand. ii) The interrelationship between the supply of car parks, private motor vehicle usage and the maintenance of a safe, sustainable and efficient transport network serving the City Centre Policy - Parking Areas and Stormwater Disposal Ensuring that where large impervious areas of parking are provided appropriate methods of stormwater disposal are incorporated into the design of the car park. 4B.1.4 Objective - Airport and Port Activities Tauranga Airport and the Port of Tauranga provide appropriate levels of on-site parking and continue to have access to a safe and efficient transport network Policy - Airport Flight Path Protection By avoiding buildings and structures that would otherwise penetrate the Airport Height Areas and Approach Surfaces and be of such a height to compromise the safety of activities associated with fiight operations Policy - Parking Requirements for Port Activities By enabling port activities to provide parking at a rate that meets operational demand Policy - Airport and Port Activities and the Transport Network By ensuring the subdivision, use and development of land does not compromise the safe and efficient functioning of roads within the transport network critical to the continued functioning of Tauranga Airport and the Port of Tauranga. 4 General Rules Provisions 9 September 2013 Section 4B Page 3 of 12

4 Tauranifa City 4B.2 Permitted Activity Rules Note: Where an activity does not comply with a Permitted Activity Rule it shall be considered a Restricted Discretionary Activity, unless stated otherwise. 4B.2.1 Parking, Manoeuvring and Loading in the Port industry Zone On-site parking, on-site manoeuvring and vehicle loading requirements shall not apply to any activity within the Port Industry Zone provided that all parking, manoeuvring and loading areas provided to meet the demand or operational requirement for that activity are contained wholly within the Port Industry Zone. 4B.2.2 On-Site Parking Requirements - City Centre Zone No on-site car parking minimums apply to activities within the City Centre Zone. Note: Other legislation may contain requirements to provide on-site carparks for certain occupancy types. 4B.2.3 On-Site Parking Requirements - General a) The minimum on-site parking requirements in Appendix 4A: General Minimum On-Site Parking and Loading Requirements shall apply to all activities not otherwise provided for by Rule On-Site Parking Requirements - City Centre Zone and Rule 4B On-Site Parking - Extensions and Alterations to a Lawfully Established Activity. Note: Activities, excluding activities within the Seventeenth Avenue Commercial Plan Area and the Historic Village site, that provide more than 25 on-site carparks under this Rule shall be considered a Restricted Discretionary Activity under Rule 4B.3(b) - Restricted Discretionary Activity Rules. Note: Any activity, excluding temporary activities, within the Seventeenth Avenue Commercial Plan Area and the Historic Village site, as shown on Appendix 40: Seventeenth Avenue Commercial Areas, shall be exempt from Rule 4B.4 b) and Rule 4B Restricted Discretionary Activity Rules. Note: Other legislation may contain requirements to provide on-site carparks for certain occupancy types. b) if an activity is not listed in Appendix 4A: General Minimum On-Site Parking and Loading Requirements the parking standard for the activity listed that is closest in vehicle generation characteristics and parking demand shall be applied; c) Where the calculation of the number of carparks results in a fractional number, that fraction shall be rounded to the nearest whole number; d) Where a s//e contains, or is proposed to contain, more than one activity, the parking requirement for each acf/wyy shall be determined separately; e) All on-site parking shall be located within the site; f) For any residential independent dwelling unit on a site, stacked on-site parking space shall be permitted provided the stacking area is exclusive ofthe on-site manoeuvring area; g) Any activity (excluding activities in Rural Zones) required to provide parking and loading spaces in accordance with Rule 4B.2.3 a) and b) On Site Parking Requirements - General shall ensure that all areas on the site used for vehicle parking, access, manoeuvring and loading/unloading shall be formed and sealed with an all weather surface prior to the activity commencing. 4 General Rules Provisions 9 September 2013 Section 4B Page 4 of 12

5 TauranifaOty 4B.2.4 On-Site Parking Design Note: The New Zealand Building Code has specific requirements for disabled parking provision and parking within buildings. All on-site carparks shall be designed to the following standards: a) Maximum gradient of 1 in 5 with break-over angles eased by a short transition slope; b) Individual space dimensions in accordance with Appendix 4B: Parking Stall Dimensions. For the purposes ofthis rule, the dimensions shall apply in all situations even when no building is involved; c) For parking and manoeuvring areas adjoining a primary arterial or secondary arterial road a kerb or similar barrier shall separate the parking area from the road boundary with the following dimensions: i) For angled parking not less than 0.15 metres high and 0.6 metres wide; ii) For parallel parking not less than 0.15 metres high and at least 0.15 metres wide. 4B.2.5 On-Site Manoeuvring a) All activities with vehicle access to the strategic road network or collector roads as shown on the City Road Hierarchy Plan (see Diagram 1, Section 5, Plan Maps Part B) and not othenwise listed in Rule 4B.5 - Non-complying Activities, shall provide on-site manoeuvring such that all vehicles can enter and exit the site without reversing on to the road. Such manoeuvring shall be able to be executed in no more than a three-point turn; b) All activities shall provide on-site manoeuvring for a 90 percentile car in accordance with Appendix 4D: 90 Percentile Tracking Curve for a Car provided that reversing may be permitted only on to a local road where less than five carparks are provided on-site; Every activity in a Commercial Zone or Industrial Zone shall provide on-site manoeuvring for: i) A 90 percentile two-axle truck in accordance with Appendix 4E: 90 Percentile Tracking Curve for an 8 metre Rigid Two Axle Truck; ii) Articulated trucks and trailers or buses where they are likely to visit the site in accordance with Appendix 4F: 90 Percentile Tracking Curve fora 19 metre Truck; in such a way that all vehicles can enter and exit the site without reversing. Such manoeuvring shall be able to be executed in no more than a three-point turn; c) d) e) f) Notwithstanding Rule c) - On-site Manoeuvring, any activity that has a vehicle access to a State Highway and is required to provide a heavy goods vehicle loading space shall provide on-site manoeuvring for a 90 percentile 19-metre long semi-trailer combination 4-axle truck in accordance with Appendix 4F: 90 Percentile Tracking Curve for an 19 metre Truck; On-site manoeuvring shall not be required where the activity has access to a formed service lane; Minimum aisle and accessway widths shall be 3 metres for a one-way fiow and 5.5 metres for a twoway fiow. 4B.2.6 a) b) c) Vehicle Loading Requirements All activities, except those located within the City Centre Zone, shall provide loading spaces in accordance with Appendix 4A: General Minimum On-Site Parking & Loading Requirements. Where loading spaces are required they shall be located: i) On the same site as the activity; ii) Exclusive of any vehicle parking space or manoeuvring area required by the Plan; iii) Where the loading/unloading space directly faces a road, it shall be set back at least 5 metres from the road boundary; Vehicle loading spaces shall not be required where the activity has access to a formed service lane; Vehicle loading spaces shall be designed to accommodate a 90 percentile two-axle truck in accordance with Appendix 4E: 90 Percentile Tracking 'Curve for an 8 m Rigid Two-Axle Truck, and where articulated trucks and trailers or buses are to be used, loading spaces shall also be designed to accommodate these vehicles; 4 General Rules Provisions 9 September 2013 Section 4B Page 5 of 12

6 TauranifaOty d) Every vehicle loading space shall be of useable shape of the following dimensions: i) Minimum width of 3.5 metres; ii) Minimum depth of 8 metres; iii) Minimum height of 3.8 metres above ground or floor level. 4B.2.7 Site Access and Vehicle Crossings Note: Creation of a new vehicle access (or accesses) onto the strategic road network, not otherwise listed within Rule Non-Complying Activities, shall be considered a Restricted Discretionary Activity. a) The location of vehicle access points from an intersection shall be in accordance with Appendix 4G: Location of Access Points from Intersections; b) Vehicle crossing points serving a business activity site shall be a minimum width of 4 metres, and a maximum width of 9 metres on the site boundary; c) Vehicle crossing points serving a business activity site where articulated trucks and trailers or buses are likely to be used shall be designed to accommodate these vehicles; d) Vehicle crossing-point widths for other activities shall be a minimum width of 2.7 metres on the site boundary; e) Where vehicle entrance locations are altered, the crossing area no longer required shall be reinstated as verge and/or footpath and kerbs replaced. The cost of such work shall be borne by the owner of the property served by the former crossing; f) The minimum sight distance from vehicle access points shall be in accordance with Appendix 4H: Calculating Sight Distances; g) Access points on to Taurikura Drive where Rule 18A Traffic Management, Safety and Convenience does not apply are permitted subject to compliance with Rule Site Access and Vehicle Crossings a), b), c), e) and f). 4B.2.8 Points of Service for Developments with Direct Access onto the Strategic Road Network a) Any activity involving the retail dispensing of vehicle fuels shall locate the fuel pumps a minimum of 10 metres from the mid-point on the boundary of any vehicle crossing onto the strategic road network. For truck stops this distance must be at least 18 metres; b) All other drive-in facility activities with direct access onto the strategic road network shall have the first point of service activities set back a minimum distance of 20 metres from the edge of the road carriageway in accordance with Appendix 41: Location of Points of Service where there is direct access onto the Strategic Road Network. 4B.2.9 Sight-Lines at Uncontrolled Railway Crossings a) Where a railway and road intersect on the same level, no building or other physical obstruction which might block the sight-lines shall be permitted within an area shown as the shaded areas on Appendix 4J: Sight Lines at Uncontrolled Railway Crossings for lookm/h Train Speeds; b) Other sight-lines (other than specified in Rule Sight Lines at Uncontrolled Railway Crossings) shall be permitted when the written consent of New Zealand Railway Corporation has been obtained before a building consent is issued. 4B.2.10 On-Site Parking and Integrated Transport Assessments - Tauriko Business Estate or Wairakei Urban Growth Area Where an activity within the Tauriko Business Estate or the Wairakei Urban Growth Area is required to provide more than 25 on-site car parks, calculated in accordance with Appendix 4A: General Minimum On- Site Parking and Loading Requirements, Rule 4B.4 b) - Restricted Discretionary Activity Rules shall not apply. 4 General Rules Provisions 4 November 2014 Secfion 48 Page 6 of 12

7 TaurarufaOty Proposed Amendment a) Where an activity within the Tauriko Business Estate or the Wairakei Urban Growth Area Wairakei Neighbourhood Centre Zone, Papamoa East Employment Zone, and Wairakei Town Centre (Core and Fringe) is required to provide more than 25 on-site car parks, calculated in accordance with Appendix 4A: General Minimum On-Site Parking and Loading Requirements, Rule 4B.4 b) - Restricted Discretionary Activity Rules shall not apply; or b) Where an activitv is a Comprehensively Designed Development Wairakei Residential Zone Medium Rise Plan Area and is required to provide more than 25 on-site car parks, calculated in accordance with Appendix 4A: General Minimum On-Site Parkinq and Loadinq Requirements. Rule 4B.4 b) - Restricted Discretionary Activitv Rules shall not apply. For the avoidance of doubt Rule 4B.4 b) shall apply to the Wairakei Residential Zone and any activitv within Medium Rise Plan Area that is not a comprehensively designed development. Plan Change 25 - No Legal Effect 4B.2.11 On-Site Parking - Established Activity Extensions and Alterations to a Lawfully Where alterations and extensions to a lawfully established activity or building occur that take the total number of on-site parking spaces lawfully provided on-site beyond 25 or any number specified by a resource consent granted for the activity on the site. Rule 4B.4 b) - Restricted Discretionary Activity Rules shall not apply: a) Provided the greater of the following is not exceeded: i) 5 additional carpark spaces; ii) An additional 10% of the total carparking spaces lawfully provided, up to a maximum of 15 additional spaces. For the avoidance of doubt. Rule 4B.4(b) - Restricted Discretionary Activity Rules shall not apply where the number of additional parking spaces provided (if any) in association with alterations or extension does not exceed this number of spaces, regardless of the number of spaces required to be provided as calculated in accordance with Appendix 4A: General Minimum On-Site Parking and Loading Requirements; iii) For the avoidance of doubt, this rule can be used by any lawful or consented activity up to the limits in (i) and (ii) above, with any exceedance over those limits requiring a resource consent under Rule 4B.4(b) - Restricted Discretionary Activity Rules. b) The parking required to be provided is within the number of car parks previously consented for the activity on the site but not yet physically constructed. 4B.2.12 Service Lanes Where a site is affected by a designation for a proposed service lane, any activity on the land shall be in accordance with the service lane widths and dimensions specified in the service lane diagrams contained in Section 4 (Plan Maps, Part B) (Service Land Diagrams).. 4B.2.13 Zoning of Stopped or Closed Road Land which is a stopped or closed road shall cease to be zoned Road Zone and shall acquire the zoning of the adjoining land up to and including the centre line of the road. The rules of that zone shall then apply accordingly. 4 General Rules Provisions 8 October 2016 Section 4B Page 7 of 12

8 Tauran^aOty 4B.3 Controlled Activity Rules The following are Controlled Activities: a) Any activity, excluding temporary activities, in the Seventeenth Avenue Commercial Areas which generates an increase in peak hour vehicle movements at the 'point of measurement of peak vehicle movement' shown on Appendix 4Q: Seventeenth Avenue Commercial Areas. Note: Any activity, excluding temporary activities, within the Seventeenth Avenue Commercial Areas where the existing traffic volumes (Veh/hr Peak) together with the traffic volumes (Veh/hr Peak) predicted for any proposed activities (including unimplemented consents) will exceed 1150 Veh/hr Peak at the 'point of measurement' shown on Appendix 4Q - Seventeenth Avenue Commercial Area shall be considered a Restricted Discretionary Activity under Rule 4B.4 - Restricted Discretionary Activity. 4B.3.1 Controlled Activity - Seventeenth Avenue Commercial Areas a) Any application made under Rule Controlled Activity - Seventeenth Avenue Commercial Plan Areas shall provide an assessment of existing peak vehicle movements and peak traffic generated by the activity measured at the 'point of measurement of peak vehicle movement' identified on Appendix 40 - Seventeenth Avenue Commercial Areas; b) if, at the 'point of measurement' shown on Appendix 40: Seventeenth Avenue Commercial Areas, the existing traffic volumes (Veh/hr Peak) together with the traffic volumes (Veh/hr Peak) predicted for any proposed activities (including unimplemented consents) will exceed any of the minimum Traffic Volumes (Veh/hr Peak) Thresholds shown in Table 4Q.1 - Seventeenth Avenue/Cameron Road Intersection, the corresponding mitigation requirements in the Table shall be provided for all minimum Traffic Volumes (Veh/hr Peak) Thresholds that are exceeded. Note: Any activity, excluding temporary activities, that does not comply with Rule Controlled Activity - Seventeenth Avenue Commercial Areas shall be considered a Restricted Discretionary Activity. 4B.3.2 Controlled Activity - Matters of Control and Condition - Seventeenth Avenue Commercial Plan Areas The Council reserves control over the following matters: a) The mitigation of the adverse effects (including cumulative effects) on the intersection of Seventeenth Avenue and Cameron Road through the 'Mitigation Requirements at Seventeenth Avenue/Cameron Road Intersection' set out in Table Seventeenth Avenue/Cameron Road Intersection. 4 General Rules Provisions 9 September 2013 Section 4B Page 8 of 12

9 TaurangaCity plan TauranifaOty 4B.4 Restricted Discretionary Activity Rules The following are Restricted Discretionary Activities: a) Any activity that does not comply with Rule Permitted Activity Rules; b) Any activity, excluding those within the City Centre Zone or the Coast Commercial Plan Area, that provides more than 25 on-site carparks as calculated in accordance with Rule On-Site Parking Requirements - General. This rule does not apply to any activities in the Tauriko Business Estate, Wairakei Urban Growth Area and its zones or the Seventeenth Avenue Commercial Areas shown on Appendix 4Q: Seventeenth Avenue Commercial Areas; Proposed Amendment b) Any activity, excluding those within the City Centre Zone or the Coast Commercial Plan Area, that provides more than 25 on-site carparks as calculated in accordance with Rule On-Site Parking Requirements - General. This rule does not apply to any activities in the Tauriko Business Estate, Wairakei Urban Growth Area Wairakei Neighbourhood Centre Zone. Papamoa East Employment Zone. Comprehensively Designed Development within the Wairakei Residential Zone Medium Rise Plan Area and Wairakei Town Centre (Core and Fringe), and its zones or the Seventeenth Avenue Commercial Areas shown on Appendix 4Q: Seventeenth Avenue Commercial Areas; Plan Change 25 - No Legal Effect c) Any Activity within the City Centre Zone that increases the use of an existing vehicle access (or accesses) from or onto the strategic road network. This Rule does not apply to the use of existing service lanes; d) Any Activity, other than those activities listed in Rule Non-Complying Activities, that creates a new vehicle access (or accesses) onto the strategic road network. This Rule does not apply to lots on Taurikura Drive not covered by Rule 18A Traffic Management, Safety and Convenience; e) Retail dispensing of fuel, activities that include a drive through point of service or child care facilities that create and/or form an additional access or accesses, or vehicle crossings, or utilise existing vehicle crossings onto the strategic road network, other than where listed in Rule NonComplying Activities; f) Any activity within the Seventeenth Avenue Commercial Areas, excluding temporary activities, where the existing traffic volumes (Veh/hr Peak) together with the traffic volumes (Veh/hr Peak) predicted for any proposed activities (including unimplemented consents) will exceed 1150 Veh/hr Peak at the 'point of measurement' shown on Appendix 4Q: Seventeenth Avenue Commercial Area; g) Any activity or activities within the Coast Commercial Plan Area that causes the total number of carparks within that Commercial Plan Area to exceed 25 (as calculated in accordance with Rule On-Site Parking Requirements - General). 4B.4.1 Restricted Discretionary Activity - Standards and Terms Note: Any activity described as a Restricted Discretionary Activity that does not comply with a Restricted Discretionary Standard and Term shall be considered a Discretionary Activity Provision of More than 25 Carparks Where more than 25 on-site carparks are provided on-site, with the exception of s//es within the City Centre Zone, an Integrated Transport Assessment relevant to the scale of the proposal shall be submitted with an application for resource consent in accordance with Appendix 4K - Integrated Transport Assessment Information Requirements Additional Use of Existing Vehicle Access onto the Strategic Road Network - City Centre Zone For any Restricted Discretionary Activity under Rule 46.4 c) - Restricted Discretionary Activity Rules a qualified transportation engineer shall prepare an assessment of the effects of the proposed activity on the safe and efficient function and operation of the strategic road network. 4 General Rules Provisions g October 2016 Section 4B Page 9 of 12

10 TauranifaOty Taurangacityplan Restricted Discretionary Activity - Standards and Terms - Seventeenth Avenue Commercial Areas a) For any Restricted Discretionary Activity under Rule 46.4 f) - Restricted Discretionary Activity Rules, a qualified transportation engineer shall prepare an assessment of the Seventeenth Avenue/Cameron Road intersection having regard to: i) The safe and efficient function and operation of the transport network; ii) Existing and predicted vehicle trip generation and trip type; iii) Capacity of the transport network to accommodate the development; iv) Operational and construction effects (including cumulative effects); v) Staging of the development; vi) The matters outlined in Objective - Maintaining a Sustainable Transport Network and 4B Policy - Use of Land through Po/;cy - Access Location and Points of Service; vii) Measures to mitigate adverse traffic effects (including cumulative effects) on the intersection Restricted Discretionary Activity - Standards and Terms - Coast Commercial Plan Area - Provision of more than 25 Carparks a) For any Restricted Discretionary Activity under Rule 4B.4.g) - Restricted Discretionary Activity Rules, an Integrated Transport Assessment relevant to the scale of the proposal shall be submitted with an application for resource consent in accordance with Appendix 4K - Integrated Traffic Assessment Information Requirements. 4B.4.2 Restricted Discretionary Activity - Matters of Discretion and Conditions On-site Parking - General In considering activities that do not comply with Rule On-site Parking Requirements - General the Council restricts the exercise of its discretion to the matters outlined in Po//cy 4B Reduction of On- Site Parking On-site Parking Design In considering activities that do not comply with Rule On-site Parking Design, Rule On-Site Manoeuvring or Rule Vehicle Loading Requirements the Council restricts the exercise of its discretion to the matters outlined in: a) 4B Policy - On-Site Parking Requirements; b) Policy - On-Site Parking - Pedestrian Safety Access Design and Location and Points of Service In considering activities that do not comply with Rule S//e Access and Vehicle Crossings and Rule Points of Service for Developments with Direct Access onto the Strategic Road Network the Council restricts the exercise of its discretion to the matters outlined in: a) Po//cy - Access Visibility; b) Policy - Access Location and Points of Service Provision of More than 25 Carparks In considering activities under Rule 4B Provision of More than 25 Carparks the Council restricts the exercise of it its discretion to: a) The matters outlined in Appendix 4K - Integrated Transport Assessment Information Requirements; b) Any recommendations of the Integrated Transport Assessment; c) The effects from the proposal on the safe and efficient operation of the transport network (including the function of roads as identified in the road hierarchy) and measures to avoid, remedy or mitigate those adverse effects; d) Considering whether reductions in parking requirements are appropriate having regard to Appendix 4L - Parking Reduction Adjustment Factors; e) Methods of stormwater disposal where 25 or more carparks are proposed to be provided on-site. 4 General Rules Provisions 9 September 2013 Section 4B Page 10 of 12

11 TauranifaOty Restricted Discretionary Activity - Matters of Discretion Seventeenth Avenue Commercial Area In considering Restricted Discretionary Activities under Rule 46.4 f) - Restricted Discretionary Activity Rules the Council restricts the exercise of its discretion to: a) The effects (including cumulative effects) on the safe and efficient operation of the transport network (including the function of roads as identified in the road hierarchy) and measures to avoid, remedy or mitigate any adverse effects; b) The matters of discretion under Rule Restricted Discretionary Activity - Matters of Discretion and Conditions; c) The effects on the transport network, including cumulative effects, network capacity, and the measures to avoid, remedy or mitigate these, and any recommendations resulting from an assessment prepared by a qualified transportation engineer; d) The matters addressed in Objective - Maintaining a Sustainable Transport Network, and in 4B Policy - Use of Land through 4B Policy - Access Location and Points of Service Additional Use of Existing Vehicle Access onto the Strategic Road Network - City Centre Zone For any Restricted Discretionary Activity under Rule 46.4 cj - Restricted Discretionary Activity Rules, the Council restricts its discretion to: a) The safe and efficient function and operation of the transport network (including the strategic road network); b) The matters of discretion under Rule Restricted Discretionary Activity - Matters of Discretion and Conditions; c) The effects on the transport network and the measures to avoid, remedy of mitigate these, including any recommendations resulting from an assessment of effects prepared by a qualified transportation engineer Coast Commercial Plan Area - Provision of More than 25 Carparks In considering activities under Rule Coasf Commercial Plan Area - Provision of more than 25 Carparks the Council restricts the exercise of its discretion to: a) The matters outlined in Appendix 4K - Integrated Transport Assessment Information Requirements; b) Any recommendations of the Integrated Transport Assessment; c) The effects from the proposal on the safe and efficient operation of the transport network (including the function of roads as identified in the road hierarchy) and measures to avoid, remedy or mitigate those adverse effects; d) Considering whether reductions in parking requirements are appropriate having regard to Appendix 4L - Parking Reduction Adjustment Factors; Non-Notification for Coast Commercial Plan Area - Provision of More than 25 Carparks Any application for a resource consent made under Rule 46.4 gj - Restricted Discretionary Activity Rules shall not be notified, or served on affected persons. 4B.5 Discretionary Activity Rules The following are Discretionary Activities: a) Any acf/wfy which is not a Permitted, Controlled, Restricted Discretionary or Non-Complying Activity; b) Any activity that does not comply with Rule Restricted Discretionary Activity - Standards and Terms. c) Any activity that does not comply with Rule aj Controlled Activity - Standards and Terms Seventeenth Avenue Commercial Plan Area. 4B.5.1 Assessment of Discretionary Activities In considering a Discretionary Activity the Council's discretion is unrestricted. The Council will consider any relevant matter with particular regard to the relevant Objectives and Policies of the Plan. 4 General Rules Provisions 9 September 2013 Section 48 Page 11 of 12

12 TauranifaOty 4B.6 Non-Complying Activities The following are Non-Complying Activities: a) Land use or subdivision activities that creates a new vehicle access onto the following roads: i) Totara Street; ii) Hewletts Road; iii) Cameron Road; iv) Tara Road; v) State Highway 2 (from Tamatea Arikinui Drive end to Wairoa Bridge); vi) Motorways and Expressways. 4 General Rules Provisions 4 November 2014 Section 4B Page 12 of 12