Central Activities DistrictsAndrew WiddicombeAssistant Director Program CoordinationUrban Development

Urban Growth Boundary Green WedgesActivity Centres(incl CADs)Principal Public Transport NetworkGrowth areasNetworked cities

Melbourne 2030

Where are the CADs?

What Are CADs?• New formal designation in the typology of centres: ‘Mini-CBD’s’

• Places for more intense development than other activity centres (jobs, housing, services, institutions etc

– Intensified land use and public transport

– Allowing people to work / live / play locally

• Very high quality places – like inner Melbourne

• 20+ year projects, mainly through private investment and private sector development

Where did they come from?

“The creation of a multi-centrecity …..to reduce congestion…to spend less time commuting to and from work”.

PARENTS

CADs

(ANCESTORS IN TRANSIT CITIES, M2030 ETC)

• 6 new CADs• Employment

corridors

• Jobs closer to housing• Targeted re-development

Move to Polycentric City

Managing Melbourne’s growth towards 5 Million

ClimateChange

Employment

Congestion

IncreasingPopulation

Energy security

Why?

City Shapers:- State significance- Focus of greatest effort, $ etc

Growth and Change accommodators:- Shared interest (metro significance)- Support to Local Govt including programs (eg. CBP, EAP etc) + services (eg. DF, PDP, Urban Design etc)

6 x CADs, 1 x WEP +

Central Geelong

PACs, MACs, ECs, Brownfield Sites, Tram lines

‘In between space:’- Targeted $ in addition to ordinary programs where redevelopment will best be achieved in short term

CADs don’t operate alone…

CAD VisionGovernment’s words in M@5M:

• CBD-type jobs and commercial services

• A strong and diverse retail sector

• Specialised goods and services drawing on a large regional catchment

• Significant opportunities for housing redevelopment in and around these centres – provides a market

• Accessible for walking, cycling, public transport or car by being located at a junction in the Principal Public Transport Network;and

• Centres of community activity

Recently approvedhigh level objectivesFive key objectives and appropriate measures: More housing More jobs More development More sustainable transport Sense of placeMore focussed than TC’s wide ranging aims but implementation / specificprojects can also at times help achieve other policy objectives.

To be achieved predominantly through privateinvestment

Using six step delivery model: ‘the 6 steps to urban renewal heaven’ – considered by Cabinet, used by Minister and even understood by DPC and DTF

Basically plagiarised from VicUrban’s approach in Docklands and Dandenong, and adapted for each CAD:

1. Shared vision

2. Planning certainty

3. Supportive infrastructure

4. Land assembly

5. Seed / catalyst projects

6. Marketing and investment facilitation

How?

Achieve an agreed shared vision amongst the major stakeholders for development of the CAD• Commercially grounded

• Owned by Government, Council and community

• Clear and agreed expectations and targets

1. Shared Vision

For the development and investment industry, the community, and whole-of-government.

• Clear rules in planning scheme that make it easy to get a permit

• Minister for Planning or a DAC to be the Responsible Authority

• One Stop Shops in Footscray and Dandenong

2. Planning Certainty

Coordinate delivery of roads, public transport, health, education, public spaces and social and civic infrastructure.

• Initial focus on transport/ public realm - bus interchanges, streetscape

• Need to expand to health, education infrastructure, utilities/services, community and cultural infrastructure too

3. SupportiveInfrastructure

Facilitating land assembly for infrastructure and catalyst development sites - this needs to ensure a supply of development sites is provided / maintained. • Acquisition and consolidation of public and private assets –may be via ‘on market’ acquisitions

• Land fragmentation

4. Land Assembly

For example, Government-tenanted buildings, new public services or institutions, affordable housing

• Constructive and creative partnerships with governmentagencies, the private sector and Federal and Local Government

• Initial focus on government accommodation

• Developing projects with DoH and DEECDre health and education services

5. Seed/ CatalystProjects

To facilitate Council and community support, and desired investment and development• Investment attraction

• Working closely with development industry and Councils

• Web, publications, forums, TV …….

6. Marketing andInvestment Facilitation

Who?!!!PRIVATE SECTOR PRIVATE SECTOR PRIVATE SECTOR!!!• Councils and communities (need tacit and active support)• Whole of Government: current key players and partners in around

$600 million of committed public investment:– DPCD & VicUrban– DoT & VicRoads

• Need new strategic friends and thinking next, including DHS, DEECD, DIIRD, DH, Arts Victoria– Hence new governance arrangements– Commonwealth involvement?– Other policy levers (eg fiscal / taxation policies)

• These are 20-30+ year projects …– We’re engaged in first 5 years or so– Need to secure longer term Govt. support and funding– Hold our nerve as this takes time!

!!!PRIVATE SECTOR PRIVATE SECTOR PRIVATE SECTOR!!!

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