Page 740 - Week 03 - Tuesday, 17 March 2015
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Children and Young People and Minister for Ageing) (3.50): For the information of members, I present the following papers:
Planning and Development Act, pursuant to subsection 79(1)—Approvals of Variations to the Territory Plan, together with background papers, a copy of the summaries and reports and a copy of any direction or report required—
No 304—Commercial Zones Development Code—Introduction of floor area provisions for shops in local centres and mixed use zones—Zone objectives—Revision of CZ4 local centres zone objectives, dated 27 February 2015.
No 336—ACT Government Land Release Program—Symonston Section 1 Block 8 and Section 115 Block 1—Zone changes and changes to the Symonston precinct map and code, dated 2 March 2015.
No 338—ACT Government Land Release Program—Mitchell section 54 block 3—Amendment to the Territory Plan definitions and changes to the Mitchell precinct map and code, dated 2 March 2015.
In accordance with the provisions of the act, these variations are presented with the background papers and copies of the summaries and reports.
I ask leave to make a statement in relation to the papers.
Leave granted.
MR GENTLEMAN: Variation 304 is the culmination of a review into supermarket competition policy in the ACT, which began in 2009. The variation has been informed through consultation with the community and by the recommendations of the Legislative Assembly’s former Select Committee on ACT Supermarket Competition Policy. It also reflects this government delivering on a key election commitment from 2012. Variation 304 provides a way forward so that local centres in particular can once again be locations for viable supermarkets and retail shops.
Variation 304 stimulates reinvestment in commercial centres while maintaining the retail hierarchy across the city. It will protect the long-term future of Canberra’s local shops by introducing floor area provisions for shops in local centres and in mixed use zones. The variation also revises CZ4 local centre zone objectives. Specifically, variation 304 will revise an objective of the commercial CZ4 local centre zone to provide explicit reference to people with mobility issues; omit the provision in the commercial zones development code that requires development at a local centre to have regard for any significant economic impact on other commercially viable local centres; establish a maximum gross floor area of 1,000 square metres for a shop at local centres while allowing shops with a greater floor area to redevelop to their existing limits; and establish a maximum gross floor limit of 1,500 square metres for shop development in the commercial CZ5 mixed use zone.
Recently Mr Coe asked me during question time if further changes would be made to draft variation 304 before I approved it. For clarity, on 12 November last year I directed the Planning and Land Authority to change the variation to limit the size of shops in local centres to 1,000 square metres unless the lessee already had an existing
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