Affordable, accessible transport
Employment opportunities
• Identify access to affordable and healthy transport as one of the scheme’s objectives.
• Ensure that planning scheme zone use statements include social enterprise operation as discretionary in all zones in order to create the possibility of bringing employment opportunities directly to people who may have been excluded from the work force due to health and disability issues.
• Ensure that new subdivision layouts are designed with the needs of public and community transport and healthy transport alternatives in mind, for instance through the provision of cycleways, universally accessible footpaths, and parkand-ride facilities, by adding these features to the list of criteria for development approval. • Give priority to increasing densities and designating types of services, such as retail, around existing transport interchanges and planned transport upgrades, as for example put forward in the 30-Year Plan for Greater Adelaide (Transport, Policy 6). • Apply prescriptive zones or overlays with associated controls to create transitoriented development (TOD) areas. • Ensure that road and parking design takes into account the needs of older and disabled drivers. • Ensure that new aged/ other care facilities and social/ aged housing are located and developed in conjunction with accessible public transport infrastructure.
Access to basic services • Identify access to basic services one of the scheme’s objectives. • Encourage the provision of services, such as shops selling basic daily needs and health services, within walking distance of public, social and affordable housing and aged care facilities.
Climate change adaptation • Identify climate change adaptation as a core planning scheme objective. • Apply prescriptive zones, overlays with associated controls, and/or design or siting guidelines to ensure that new residential areas—particularly social, public and affordable housing and special purpose developments such as aged care facilities—are not located in areas at future risk of natural hazards linked to climate change (flooding, bushfires, or coastal storm surges). • Apply risk management approaches when reviewing redevelopment proposals, such as upgrading existing development to current standards (for example, increasing a building’s elevation in flood-prone areas). • Ensure that new residential construction, particularly of affordable housing, is held to the highest appropriate construction standards in relation to wind and soil stability issues. • Community sector involvement • Ensure that zoning guidelines permit community service organisations to locate themselves, and to conduct activities, in locations that are convenient and accessible to their clients.
• Adopt activity centre models designed to bring together residential, commercial, service and retail development. • Encourage higher density development within walking distance of existing local shops and health services. • Ensure that public, social and aged housing developments are established in well-serviced areas.
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