Voortrekker Corridor Road Integration Zone
Strategy and Investment Plan
Spatial Planning and Urban Design Department
Energy, Environment and Spatial Planning
Presentation Outline
VRC Integration Zone: Strategy and Investment Plan
Inception
Objectives
Rationale
Process
Diagnosis
Strategy
Way Forward
• Why are we doing the project?
• What do we wish to achieve with the project?
• Why was VRC selected as an integration
zone?
• How are we doing the work?
• How do we understand VRC’s full potential?
• Why is it not being achieved?
• What can be done to assist the VRC to
develop to its full potential?
• How will the project proceed to completion?
1. Inception: Why are we doing the project?
Inception: A policy flower pollinated
Inception
Objectives
Rationale
Process
Diagnosis
ITP
Strategy
Way
forward
Inception: Aligned Spheres of Government
Inception
Objectives
Rationale
Process
Diagnosis
Strategy
Way
forward
PROVINCIAL
PSDF
ONECAPE2040
NATIONAL
LOCAL / CITY
IDP
NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
PLAN
CITY SUPPORT PROGRAMME
URBAN NETWORK STRATEGY
ICDG
CITY DEVELOPMENT
STRATEGY
SDS
EGS
IHSP
CTSDF
BEPP
IZ S&IP
ITP
Inception: Aligned Spheres of Government
Inception
Objectives
SA Cities inefficient + fiscally
unsustainable
• Sprawl
• Segregation
• Low density
• Public sector spending ≠
leveraging returns
NATIONAL
Rationale
Process
Diagnosis
Strategy
Way
forward
PROVINCIAL
PSDF
ONECAPE2040
LOCAL / CITY
IDP
NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
PLAN
CITY SUPPORT PROGRAMME
URBAN NETWORK STRATEGY
ICDG
CITY DEVELOPMENT
STRATEGY
SDS
EGS
IHSP
CTSDF
BEPP
IZ S&IP
ITP
Inception: Aligned Spheres of Government
Inception
Objectives
Rationale
SA Cities inefficient + fiscally
unsustainable
• Sprawl
• Segregation
• Low density
• Public sector spending ≠
leveraging returns
NATIONAL
Process
Diagnosis
Strategy
Way
forward
PROVINCIAL
PSDF
ONECAPE2040
LOCAL / CITY
IDP
NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
PLAN
CITY SUPPORT PROGRAMME
URBAN NETWORK STRATEGY
ICDG
CITY DEVELOPMENT
STRATEGY
SDS
EGS
IHSP
CTSDF
BEPP
Spatially targeted interventions
Focusing on areas of potential
 Integration Zones
IZ S&IP
ITP
Inception: Aligned Spheres of Government
Inception
Objectives
Rationale
Process
Diagnosis
PROVINCIAL
PSDF
ONECAPE2040
NATIONAL
Strategy
Way
forward
Efficient and fiscally
sustainable City
• Compact
• Inclusive
• Productive
• Targeted investment 
leveraging returns
LOCAL / CITY
IDP
NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
PLAN
CITY SUPPORT PROGRAMME
URBAN NETWORK STRATEGY
ICDG
CITY DEVELOPMENT
STRATEGY
SDS
EGS
IHSP
CTSDF
BEPP
Spatially targeted interventions
Focusing on areas of potential
 Integration Zones
IZ S&IP
ITP
Inception: Integration Zone Location
Inception
Objectives
Rationale
Process
Diagnosis
Strategy
Way
forward
Size: 8218 ha
Length: ± 19 km
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2. Objectives: What do we wish to achieve with the
project?
Objectives
Inception
Objectives
Rationale
Process
Diagnosis
Strategy
Strategy and Investment Plan
Growth and renewal of VRC  Leverage private sector investment
VRC as a driver of City wide spatial transformation
Approach
Information and knowledge driven process
Further City’s TOD focus  capitalise on transport investment
Implementation focus
Programme of public investment: Direct + coordinate
Prioritised local areas: high potential  under performing
Focus resource and investment: critical mass  tangible outcomes
PROJECT STATUS:
Internal strategy document
Formal Endorsement  Component of BEPP
Way
forward
3. Rationale: Why was the VRC selected as an
integration zone?
Rationale: Selection of VRC
Inception
Objectives
Rationale
Process
Diagnosis
Strategy
Way
forward
VRC selection:
potential to meet objectives: Integration Zone + TOD
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LOCATIONAL ADVANTAGES
Rationale: Selection of VRC
Inception
Objectives
Rationale
Process
Diagnosis
Strategy
Way
forward
1. Greatest Accessibility
•
•
Central location in metropole
Public transport access and connectivity
2. Greatest Number of Job Opportunities
•
•
•
± 183 000 work spaces
Retention of jobs (blue-collar)
Some underperforming areas
3. Greatest economic opportunities
•
Proximity:
o
o
o
o
economic infrastructure
regional markets
household consumers
skills catchments
•
Industrial agglomeration
4.
Greatest opportunity for residential intensification
•
•
Relatively low densities
Spare capacity:
o
o
o
o
•
Location Potential of Business Precincts
Infrastructure;
Social facilities
Unused development rights
Undeveloped land (state owned & para-statal)
Social Housing Restructuring Zone
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Access to Road and Rail Infrastructure
4. Process: How are we doing the work?
Process: How we going to do the work
Objectives
Rationale
Process
Diagnosis
Strategy
VOORTREKKER ROAD CORRIDOR
INTEGRATION ZONE:
BASELINE ANALYSIS
FUNCTIONAL AREA
ANALYSIS
INTEGRATION ZONE
STRATEGIES
INTERVENTIONS
PRIORITISED LOCAL
AREAS
INTEGRATION ZONE
WIDE
PRIORITISED INVESTMENT FRAMEWORK
TARGETED DISCUSSIONS
Initiated Actions
Inception
Way
forward
Process: How we going to do the work
Inception
Objectives
Rationale
Process
Diagnosis
Strategy
Way
forward
4. Diagnosis: How do we understand the VRC’s full
potential and why is it not being achieved?
Diagnosis: Methodology
Inception
Objectives
Rationale
Process
Diagnosis
Strategy
Way
forward
INFORMANTS
Baseline Assessment
• Wide search
• Detailed understanding of area
Objectives  Rationale Themes
• Focus understanding
Functional Area Analysis
• Limit focus
• Spatialise interventions
Area function, role and character
Current, budgeted and planned initiatives
Demographic Trends
Socio-economic Trends
Residential
Economic Status
Transport Role / Functions
Services Infrastructure
Social Facilities Infrastructure
Land use
Diagnosis: Baseline Assessment Summary
Inception
Objectives
Category
Rationale
Process
Diagnosis
Locational Advantages
Strategy
Way
forward
Impediments to Growth
Transport
•
•
•
Rail network, incl. Blue Downs link
Road network
IRT
•
•
•
•
Poor rail service and station precincts
Limited feeder services to rail
Lack N/S PT connections
Missing road links
Economy
•
•
Economic areas potential
Value chains
•
•
•
Economic areas performance
Shift from manufacturing
Higher order movement to N1
Public Facilities
•
•
•
Tertiary education
Medical cluster
Higher order facilities
•
Risk of capacity constraints with
densification
Land
•
•
Public land holding
Under utilised rights
•
Limited City owned land
Infrastructure
•
•
•
ICT
Established infrastructure
Upgrading programme
•
•
Elsies River Floodlines
Infrastructure constraints
Residential
•
•
In-migration = demand
Incremental densification
•
•
•
Low density
Homogeneous
Areas of deprivation + overcrowding
Urban
Management
•
•
CIDS
CCTV upgrades
•
•
Crime and grime
Problem buildings
Diagnosis: Baseline Analysis Advantages - Transport
Interconnections (road, rail, IPTN)
Inception
Objectives
Rationale
Process
Diagnosis
Strategy
Blue Downs
Rail Link
Way
forward
Diagnosis: Baseline Analysis Advantages – Land
Public Land Holdings
Inception
Objectives
Rationale
Process
Diagnosis
Strategy
Way
forward
Diagnosis: Baseline Analysis Advantages – Economy
Economic Areas and ICT
Inception
Objectives
Rationale
Process
Diagnosis
Strategy
Way
forward
Diagnosis: Baseline Analysis Advantages – Land
Underutilised Bulk – land use rights
Inception
Objectives
Rationale
Process
Diagnosis
Strategy
Way
forward
Diagnosis: Baseline Analysis Advantages – Public Facilities
Higher Order Public Facilities
Inception
Objectives
Rationale
Process
Diagnosis
Strategy
Way
forward
Diagnosis: Baseline Analysis Advantages – Synthesis
Locational Advantages
Inception
Objectives
Rationale
Process
Diagnosis
Strategy
Way
forward
Diagnosis: Baseline Analysis Impediments – Transport
Station Precinct Scoring
Inception
Objectives
Rationale
Process
Diagnosis
Strategy
Way
forward
Diagnosis: Baseline Analysis Impediments – Transport
Incomplete Road Network and N-S links
Inception
Objectives
Rationale
Process
Diagnosis
Strategy
Way
forward
Diagnosis: Baseline Analysis Impediments – Infrastructure
Infrastructure Risks
Inception
Objectives
Rationale
Process
Diagnosis
Strategy
Way
forward
Diagnosis: Baseline Analysis Impediments – Urban Management
Objectives
Rationale
Process
Diagnosis
C3 Notifications
Inception
From business
perception survey
2011 (pre- VRC CID)
Strategy
Way
forward
Diagnosis: Baseline Analysis Impediments – Land
Limited CCT Ownership
Inception
Objectives
Rationale
Process
Diagnosis
Strategy
Maitland Cemetery
Bellville Landfill
Way
forward
Diagnosis: Baseline Analysis Impediments – Economy
Economic Performance (ECAMP)
Inception
Objectives
Rationale
Process
Diagnosis
Strategy
Way
forward
Diagnosis: Baseline Analysis Impediments – Synthesis
The Basics and Land
Inception
Objectives
Rationale
Process
Diagnosis
Strategy
Way
forward
Diagnosis: Baseline Analysis Impediments – Synthesis
Urban Management
Inception
Objectives
Rationale
Process
Diagnosis
Strategy
Way
forward
Diagnosis: Themes
Inception
Objectives
Rationale
Process
Diagnosis
Strategy
Objectives
•
•
•
•
Compact
Inclusive
Productive
Targeted investment 
leveraging returns
Way
forward
Hypothesis
•
•
•
•
Jobs
Opportunity City (1.1; 1.2)
Residential
Intensification
High Order
Public Facilities
Caring City (3.2)
Opportunity City
(1.1;1.5)
Caring City (3.2)
Inclusive City (4)
The Basics
Opportunity City (1.1 1.2; 1.4; 1.5)
Inclusive City (4.2)
Safe City (2.50
Well Run City (5.2)
Greatest accessibility
Greatest no. job opportunities
Economic opportunities
Residential intensification
Diagnosis: Functional Area Analysis
Inception
Objectives
Rationale
Process
Diagnosis
Strategy
Why develop and analyse functional areas:
Prioritise areas for impact
Identify areas of:
need and potential
Current
Performance
Assessment criteria:
Themes
Jobs
Residential
Intensification
Public Facilities
Prioritised
Local
Areas
Future
Potential
Way
forward
Diagnosis: Functional Area Analysis – Current Performance
Inception
Objectives
Rationale
Process
Diagnosis
Strategy
Way
forward
SCORING CRITERIA: CURRENT PERFORMANCE



Assessment of how the area performs currently
Assessment provided for each category below
A final score given based on the lowest score for any one category. Scorers able to amend this score if special conditions exist
Jobs
Residential
Public Facilities
Overall Score
Customised ECAMP rating:
Socio-economic Index
Accessibility to public facilities

Based on lowest score for any

Vacancies
Liveability
Tertiary Education Institutions
one category

Building Development

Facilities

Facilities

Scores amended if special

Churn etc.

Urban Environment etc.

Residences
conditions existed

Urban Environment etc.
Decline
Stable
Growth /
Decline
Stable
Growth /
Decline
Stable
Growth /
Decline
Stable
Growth /
Positive
Positive
Positive
Positive
Current Performance - Overall
Diagnosis: Functional Area Analysis – Future Potential
Inception
Objectives
Rationale
Process
Diagnosis
Strategy
Way
forward
SCORING CRITERIA: FUTURE POTENTIAL



Assessment of the future potential of the area with a 20 year time horizon
Assessment provided for each category below
A final score given based on the highest score for any one category. Scorers able to amend this score if special conditions exist
Jobs
Residential
Public Facilities
Overall Score
Customised ECAMP rating:

Potential for appropriately

Potential for clustering

Based on highest score for any

Agglomeration
located densification

Space available
one category

Physical room for growth

Accessibility

Accessibility etc.

Scores amended if special

Skills and spending catchment 
Liveability
conditions existed
etc.

Urban Environment etc.
Low
Medium
High
Low
Medium
High
Low
Medium
High
Low
Medium
High
Future Potential - Overall
5. Strategy: What can be done to assist the VRC to
develop to its full potential?
Strategy
Inception
Objectives
Rationale
Process
Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way
General George S. Patton
Diagnosis
Way
forward
Strategy
VOORTREKKER ROAD CORRIDOR INTEGRATION ZONE: DRAFT STRATEGY FRAMEWORK
THEMES
STRATEGY
(Overall themes that have
emerged from selection of
area and refined through
baseline assessment)
(just the name)
OBJECTIVE
INTERVENTION
ACTIONS
EARLY ACTIONS
(What should be done)
(What can WE do)
(interventions / actions
underway or completed)
• Expedite PRASA's rail modernisation programme (rail network
upgrades and improvements) in VRC
• Expedited implementation of Blue Downs rail link
• Expedite station precinct upgrades
• Improve public transport accessibility in VRC
• Improve road network
Transport
• Top level engagements with rail authorities to prioritise rail network
upgrades and improvements in VRC
• Top level engagements with rail authorities to ensure expedited
implementation of Blue Downs rail link
• Station precinct assessments
Engagements with Intersite to prioritise precinct upgrades
PTI assessments and upgrades
• Engage with IPTN planning
• Improve north-south linkages (specifically Symphony Way) through
VRC
• Expand feeder network
• Construction of priority road improvements
• Engagement with PGWC
A high-quality, well-functioning, integrated
transport network, with rail as backbone,
capable of supporting Transit Orientated
Development
• Maximise value at high accessibility intersections
• Station precinct
assessments
• Engagements with Intersite
• Tienie Meyer bypass
rehabilitation and upgrades
• Halt Road maintenance and
upgrades
• Vik ing Way upgrade
• Symphony Way maintenance
and upgrade
• N1 / N7 interchange
reconstruction
• Analysis and mapping of areas with high accessibility and potential
• Improve freight transport efficiencies
• Detailed analysis of freight infrastructure and operations within the
VRC
• Identify interventions to improve efficiencies
• Develop a strategy for improved utilisation of rail sidings within the
VRC
• Improve quality of public environment in and around public transport • Manage crime and grime
locations
• Support CID's
• Assess station precincts for prioritised urban management
interventions
• Improve access to PTI's (subways, NMT, universal access) engage with rail authorities where necessary
Infrastructure
THE BASICS
An enabling environment for investment
and development through ensuring bulk
network capacity
• Identify and prioritise infrastructure improvements
• Identify
• Prioritise
• Implement
• Detailed storm water master planning for VRC river corridors
• Identify innovative and sustainable alternative infrastructure
solutions
• Facilitate engagement with alternative infrastructure specialists
• Capitalise on extensive broadband infrastructure in VRC
• Market (through partnerships) the competitive advantage of the
broadband infrastructure
• Establish and maintain partnerships with key role players in the
VRC
• Establish partnerships with key role players in the VRC
• Investigate the potential for additional CID's in the VRC
• Partnership with GTP
• Elsies River CID
• Identify, prioritise and implement areas for public space
improvements
• Identify, prioritise and implement areas for public space
improvements
• Public realm perception
surveys
• Business Areas perception
surveys
• Krusk al Avenue
• Jack Muller / Elizabeth Park
upgrades
• Maitland cemetary upgrade
• Ensure improved regulation and enforcement
• Develop and enhance a local identity and place brand
• Ensure improved regulation and enforcement
• Develop and enhance a local identity and place brand
• Capitalise on local identities, possibly through development of
markets (e.g. China Town)
• Reduce public sector 'red tape'
• DC support for appropriate development
• Explore appropriate regulatory reforms:
- overlay zones
- tradable development rights
- expedited regulatory processes
• Appoint a dedicated development facilitator for the VRC
• Work with and amend (where necessary) existing spatial targeting
instruments
• Identification of appropriate undeveloped and under-developed land
for intensification
• Engage with funders to identify VRC as a viable development area
A clean, safe, well-maintained public
Urban Management environment
Development
Facilitation
Stimulating regeneration, investment and
development in the VRC
• Actively encouraging and supporting small scale developers in
appropriate locations
• Improved public land management strategy
Public Land
Holding
• Station precinct
assessments
• BITLUP project
Use public land as strategic asset to
leverage private sector development in
desired locations
• Utility services capacities
and constraints identified as
part of baseline assessment
• Electricity upgrades
• Targeted meetings with
financial institutions and other
role players
• Identify and assess appropriate land holdings around transit
locations for potential acquisition
• Ensure appropriate needs assessment before release of City land
(taking into account long term TOD requirements)
• Identify and assess City land holdings which could be released to
leverage private sector investment in desired forms and locations
• Maintaining the attractiveness of commercial and industrial areas
Keep
JOBS
Employment
retention and
growth
Grow
Plan for change
• Manage congestion
• Manage inappropriate land use creep
• Identify and reinforce local small and medium scale businesses
that contribute to the make-up of certain value chains (e.g. automotive
clusters)
• Manage crime and grime
• Management of informal economy
• Manage existing informal trade
• Krusk al Avenue
• Improve infrastructure where appropriate
• Identify and manage impediments to growth of commercial and
• Manage congestion
industrial areas
• Manage crime and grime
• Align regulatory conditions with business needs
• Investigate factors contributing to, and encourage the take-up of
under-utilized land use rights
• Identify potential extended / new UDZs, IDZs and SEZs
• Management of informal economy
• Improve infrastructure where appropriate
Identify opportunities for informal trading
• Plan for changing use and demand for commercial and industrial
• Understand changing nature of industry
areas (accepting that economic activity is driven by global and macro • Pro-actively plan for change ensuring appropriate land use
economic factors)
• Identify opportunities for the informal sector
• Increased delivery by private sector and housing institutions
Intensification: Increased number of
people living in the well-located, wellserved (by public transport and public
facilities) areas of the VRC
RESIDENTIAL
Residential
Mix: A wider range of accessible housing
opportunities (size, type, affordability)
Public facilities
PUBLIC
FACILITIES
• Expedited release of state-owned and parastatal land holdings
suited to residential intensification
• Encourage fine-grained, incremental intensification in appropriate
locations
• Increased provision of social and affordable housing as a lever for
regeneration
• Increased provision of student housing
• Engage with private sector and housing institutions to determine
incentives for more development
• Regulatory reforms
• Facilitate engagements with role-players to effect the release of
large state-owned land holding suited to residential intensification
• Assess appropriate locations
• Assess regulatory impacts and make necessary amendments
• Package and release appropriate land
Investigate methods for cross-subsidisation
Regulatory reforms
• Engage with tertiary institutions
Identify, package and release appropriate land
Identification of areas with high
potential for residential
intensification
• Pack aging Salt River Mark et
site
Capitalise on the concentration of high
order public facilities
Capitalise on the high levels of
accessibility in VRC for concentration of
public facilities
Ensure sufficient space for public facilities
with future residential intensification
• Identify opportunities for clustering in areas of high accessibility
• Identify opportunities for clustering in areas of high accessibility
• Cluster public facilities around public transport interchanges
• Assess public facilities provision
• Protect well-located vacant land currently reserved for social
amenities
• Improved public land management strategy
• Identify areas of depravation requiring intervention
Consolidate VRC as nexus of tertiary
education institutions
• Develop linkages and symbiosis between tertiary education
institutions
• Develop linkages and symbiosis between tertiary educations
institutions and business
• Grow scope and capacity of tertiary education institutions
• Development of tertiary education facilities and accommodation in
regeneration areas
• GTP to play facilitatory role
• GTP active in this arena
• GTP to play facilitatory role
• GTP active in this arena
Tertiary Education
Institutions
Tertiary education facilities and
accommodation as driver of urban
regeneration
• Assist with land assessment and availabitliy
• Identify appropriate locations
• CSIR study
Strategy
Inception
Objectives
Rationale
Process
Diagnosis
Strategy
Way
forward
VOORTREKKER ROAD CORRIDOR INTEGRATION ZONE: DRAFT STRATEGY FRAMEWORK
THEMES
STRATEGY
(Overall themes that have
emerged from selection of
area and refined through
(just the name)
Transport
OBJECTIVE
INTERVENTION
ACTIONS
INITIATED ACTIONS
(What should be done)
(What can WE do)
(interventions / actions
underway or completed)
• Expedite PRASA's rail modernisation programme (rail network
upgrades and improvements) in VRC
• Top level engagements with rail authorities to prioritise rail network
upgrades and improvements in VRC
• Expedited implementation of Blue Downs rail link
• Top level engagements with rail authorities to ensure expedited
implementation of Blue Downs rail link
• Expedite station precinct upgrades
• Station precinct assessments
Engagements with Intersite to prioritise precinct upgrades
PTI assessments and upgrades
• Improve public transport accessibility in VRC
• Engage with IPTN planning
• Improve north-south linkages (specifically Symphony Way) through
VRC
• Expand feeder network
A high-quality, well-functioning, integrated
transport network, with rail as backbone,
capable of supporting Transit Orientated
Development
• Improve road network
• Maximise value at high accessibility intersections
• Construction of priority road improvements
• Engagement with PGWC
• Station precinct
assessments
• Engagements with Intersite
• Tienie Meyer bypass
rehabilitation and upgrades
• Halt Road maintenance and
upgrades
• Vik ing Way upgrade
• Symphony Way maintenance
and upgrade
• N1 / N7 interchange
reconstruction
• Analysis and mapping of areas with high accessibility and potential
• Improve freight transport efficiencies
• Detailed analysis of freight infrastructure and operations within the
VRC
• Identify interventions to improve efficiencies
• Develop a strategy for improved utilisation of rail sidings within the
VRC
• Improve quality of public environment in and around public transport • Manage crime and grime
locations
• Support CID's
• Assess station precincts for prioritised urban management
interventions
• Improve access to PTI's (subways, NMT, universal access) engage with rail authorities where necessary
• Identify and prioritise infrastructure improvements
THE BASICS
•
•
•
•
Identify
Prioritise
Implement
Detailed storm water master planning for VRC river corridors
• Station precinct
assessments
• BITLUP project
• Utility services capacities
and constraints identified as
part of baseline assessment
• Electricity upgrades
Strategy
Inception
Objectives
Rationale
Process
Diagnosis
Strategy
Way
forward
VOORTREKKER ROAD CORRIDOR INTEGRATION ZONE: DRAFT STRATEGY FRAMEWORK
THEMES
STRATEGY
(Overall themes that have
emerged from selection of
area and refined through
(just the name)
Transport
OBJECTIVE
INTERVENTION
ACTIONS
INITIATED ACTIONS
(What should be done)
(What can WE do)
(interventions / actions
underway or completed)
• Expedite PRASA's rail modernisation programme (rail network
upgrades and improvements) in VRC
• Top level engagements with rail authorities to prioritise rail network
upgrades and improvements in VRC
The Opportunity City
Objective 1.4 Ensure mobility through the
implementation of an effective public transport
system
Programme 1.4(b) Rail service improvement and
upgrade programme
• Expedited implementation of Blue Downs rail link
• Top level engagements with rail authorities to ensure expedited
implementation of Blue Downs rail link
• Expedite station precinct upgrades
• Station precinct assessments
Engagements with Intersite to prioritise precinct upgrades
PTI assessments and upgrades
The Opportunity City
Objective 1.4 Ensure mobility through the
implementation of an effective public transport
system
Programme 1.4(b) Rail service improvement and
upgrade programme
The Opportunity City
Objective 1.4 Ensure mobility through the
implementation of an effective public transport
system
Programme 1.4(b) Rail service improvement and
upgrade programme
• Improve public transport accessibility in VRC
• Engage with IPTN planning
• Improve north-south linkages (specifically Symphony Way) through
VRC
• Expand feeder network
A high-quality, well-functioning, integrated
transport network, with rail as backbone,
capable of supporting Transit Orientated
Development
• Improve road network
• Maximise value at high accessibility intersections
• Construction of priority road improvements
• Engagement with PGWC
• Station precinct
assessments
• Engagements with Intersite
The Opportunity City
Objective 1.4 Ensure Mobility through the
implementation of an effective public transport
system
• Tienie Meyer bypass
rehabilitation and upgrades
• Halt Road maintenance and
upgrades
• Vik ing Way upgrade
• Symphony Way maintenance
and upgrade
• N1 / N7 interchange
reconstruction
• Analysis and mapping of areas with high accessibility and potential
• Detailed analysis of freight infrastructure and operations within the
VRC
• Identify interventions to improve efficiencies
• Develop a strategy for improved utilisation of rail sidings within the
VRC
• Improve quality of public environment in and around public transport • Manage crime and grime
locations
• Support CID's
• Assess station precincts for prioritised urban management
interventions
• Improve access to PTI's (subways, NMT, universal access) engage with rail authorities where necessary
Identify
Prioritise
Implement
Detailed storm water master planning for VRC river corridors
• Utility services capacities
and constraints identified as
part of baseline assessment
• Electricity upgrades
The Opportunity City
Objective 1.2 Provide and maintain economic and
social infrastructure to ensure infrastructure-led
growth.
• Identify innovative and sustainable alternative infrastructure
solutions
• Facilitate engagement with alternative infrastructure specialists
• Capitalise on extensive broadband infrastructure in VRC
• Market (through partnerships) the competitive advantage of the
broadband infrastructure
• Establish and maintain partnerships with key role players in the
VRC
• Establish partnerships with key role players in the VRC
• Investigate the potential for additional CID's in the VRC
• Partnership with GTP
• Elsies River CID
• Identify, prioritise and implement areas for public space
improvements
• Identify, prioritise and implement areas for public space
improvements
• Public realm perception
surveys
• Business Areas perception
surveys
• Krusk al Avenue
• Jack Muller / Elizabeth Park
upgrades
• Maitland cemetary upgrade
• Ensure improved regulation and enforcement
• Ensure improved regulation and enforcement
• Develop and enhance a local identity and place brand
• Develop and enhance a local identity and place brand
• Capitalise on local identities, possibly through development of
markets (e.g. China Town)
• Reduce public sector 'red tape'
• DC support for appropriate development
• Explore appropriate regulatory reforms:
- overlay zones
- tradable development rights
- expedited regulatory processes
• Appoint a dedicated development facilitator for the VRC
• Work with and amend (where necessary) existing spatial targeting
instruments
• Identification of appropriate undeveloped and under-developed land
for intensification
• Engage with funders to identify VRC as a viable development area
The Opportunity City
Objective 1.2 Provide and maintain economic and
social infrastructure to ensure infrastructure-led
growth.
Programme 1.2 (c ) Investment in infrastructure
The Opportunity City
Objective 1.2 Provide and maintain economic and
social infrastructure to ensure infrastructure-led
growth.
Programme 1.2 (a) Fibre optic network programme
Objective 1.5 Leverage the city's assets to drive
economic growth
An enabling environment for investment
and development through ensuring bulk
network capacity
A clean, safe, well-maintained public
Stimulating regeneration, investment and
development in the VRC
• Actively encouraging and supporting small scale developers in
appropriate locations
• Improved public land management strategy
Public Land
Holding
The Inclusive City
Objective 4.2 Provide facilities that make citizens feel
at home
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Urban Management environment
Development
Facilitation
• Station precinct
assessments
• BITLUP project
• Identify and prioritise infrastructure improvements
THE BASICS
Use public land as strategic asset to
leverage private sector development in
desired locations
• Identify and assess appropriate land holdings around transit
locations for potential acquisition
• Ensure appropriate needs assessment before release of City land
(taking into account long term TOD requirements)
• Identify and assess City land holdings which could be released to
The Opportunity City
Objective 1.2 Provide and maintain economic and
social infrastructure to ensure infrastructure-led
growth.
The Opportunity City
Objective 1.5: Leverage the city's assets to drive
economic growth and sustainable development
The Opportunity City
Objective 1.1 Create an enabling environment to
attract investment that generates economic growth
and job creation
• Improve freight transport efficiencies
Infrastructure
POLICY ALIGNMENT
(IDP: Strategic Focus Area/Objective/Programme)
The Safe City
Objective 2.5 Improve safety and security through
partnerships
The Inclusive City
Objective 4.2 Provide facilities that make citizens feel
at home
Programme 4.2(a) Community amenities programme
(provide and maintain)
The Well Run City Objective 5.2 Establish an
efficient and productive administration that prioritises
delivery
The
Opportunity City
Objective 1.5 Leverage the city's assets to drive
economic growth
The Opportunity City
Objective 1.1 Create an enabling environment to
attract investment that generates economic growth
and job creation
Programme 1.1 (e) Planning and regulation
programme - Business process improvement
initiatives
• Targeted meetings with
financial institutions and other
role players
The Opportunity City
Objective 1.5 Leverage the city's assets to drive
economic growth
The Opportunity City
Objective 1.5 Leverage the city's assets to drive
economic growth- Utilising municipal property to
leverage economic growth and sustainable
development in poorer communities
PERFORMANCE
MONITORING
INDICATORS
RESPONSIBLE
PERSON /
DEPARTMENT
TIMEFRAME
BUDGET
FUNDING
SOURCE /
MECHANISM
Strategy – Initiated Actions
Inception
Objectives
Rationale
Process
Diagnosis
Strategy
Way
forward
BITLUP
(R2.2m)
Voortrekker Road Upgrade
Along Maitland Cemetery
(R1m – 2015/16
R2m 2016/17)
Kruskal Avenue
upgrades
(R200k)
Salt River Market
Affordable Housing Project
Elsies River Infill
Housing Phase 2
Maitland crematorium
infrastructure replacement
(R1m – 2015/16
R0.5m 2016/17)
5.1 Way Forward: How will the project proceed to
completion?
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Way Forward: Discussions
Objectives
Rationale
Process
Diagnosis
Strategy
VOORTREKKER ROAD CORRIDOR
INTEGRATION ZONE:
BASELINE ANALYSIS
FUNCTIONAL AREA
ANALYSIS
INTEGRATION ZONE
STRATEGIES
INTERVENTIONS
PRIORITISED LOCAL
AREAS
INTEGRATION ZONE
WIDE
PRIORITISED INVESTMENT FRAMEWORK
TARGETED DISCUSSIONS
Initiated Actions
Inception
Way
forward
Way Forward: Discussions
Inception
Objectives
Stage
Stage 1:
Strategy Development
Rationale
Timeframe
Diagnosis
Strategy
Way
forward
Presentations / Discussions
March / April ‘15
Political reporting
May ‘15
Group session
1:1 Discussions
 Banks
 Land owners / property managers
 Developers
 Brokers
March – May ‘15  Businesses operating in area
 Tertiary education institutions
 Public sector
o Province
o PRASA – Land Use and Planning Group
o Transnet
Political approval: Strategy &Investment Plan
Stage 2:
Investment Framework November ‘15
Stage 3:
Prioritised Local Areas
Process
On-going
Investor conference: Launch S&IP
Project level engagements
Way Forward: Interventions and Implementation Framework
Objectives
Rationale
Process
Diagnosis
Strategy
VOORTREKKER ROAD CORRIDOR
INTEGRATION ZONE:
BASELINE ANALYSIS
FUNCTIONAL AREA
ANALYSIS
INTEGRATION ZONE
STRATEGIES
INTERVENTIONS
PRIORITISED LOCAL
AREAS
INTEGRATION ZONE
WIDE
PRIORITISED INVESTMENT FRAMEWORK
TARGETED DISCUSSIONS
Initiated Actions
Inception
Way
forward
8. Conclusion
Conclusion
Background and understanding
Work to date
Invitation to comment on Draft Strategy
Thank You