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Method and assessment criteria
The assessment:
Considered the land use development control provisions described in State and
local legislation and planning policy with reference to the information reported
in Chapter 4
Identified existing land uses, trends and characteristics across the study area
Identified current and future land uses within and adjacent to the proposal
footprint
Identified the current and future property characteristics of the proposal
footprint
Identified those adverse impacts that would need safeguarding or managing
under the proposal.
Impact significance was determined by considering the sensitivity of the study area’s
land use and property characteristics to the changes introduced under the proposal
and the likelihood for any assets, resources or values being impacted during
construction and/or operation.
6.5.2 Existing environment
Land use
Zoning and development control planning
Sydney’s city centre has developed around a number of neighbourhoods and city
centre ‘precincts’ each with their own distinctive land use and property
characteristics. Local development controls and land use zoning within these areas is
largely provisioned under the Sydney LEP and Sydney DCP (refer to section 4.2).
The majority of the proposal footprint is located on land zoned as the metropolitan
centre (refer to Figure 4-1) with two exceptions as described in Table 4-1. It also
crosses a number of special character areas and affects city centre roads that are
designated as active frontages and pedestrian priorities (refer to Table 4-2).
Development control in the city centre broadly focuses on heritage conservation, the
ability to support land use diversity and the need to preserve the important land use
characteristics and interfaces that have established over time. These are
underpinned by specific controls established to protect each area’s character.
Three transport zoning priorities have also been established in the city centre under
the Access Strategy. These promote pedestrian and public transport access in the
core, mixed access on the periphery and along the main and secondary west-east
roads that cross the city centre and private vehicle and bypass access on the outer
roads (refer to section 2.1).
General land use characteristics
Each of the five precincts considered in this REF has its own unique land use
characteristics and composition as summarised in Table 6-31.
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