Planning Scheme Provisions (3.9 MB) - Cairns Regional Council

- 33 -- distribution, in suitable locations, of appropriate amounts of land for the various landuses;-3.2 &community confidence in the nature and direction of future development andredevelopment;the maintenance and improvement of the existing and future amenity of all areaswithin the City;the conservation of biological diversity and maintenance of ecological integrity; andthe protection of environmental quality.It is the aim of each zone to segregate incompatible purposes of development with thosewhich may establish in relative harmony with each other. Each zone, therefore, willcomprise purposes of development which are either permitted, permissible or prohibited.Permissible developments include uses which, if they were not subject to certainrestrictions or specific performance criteria, would not be compatible with the permittedpurposes of development in each zone.In order to achieve this aim and provide a mechanism for guiding and controlling thedistribution, mixing and segregation of the various land uses, the City has been dividedinto zones. Any and every purpose of development as defined is thus able to beestablished in discrete parts of the City without compromising the urban amenity of thatparticular area.