the gauteng spatial development framework - Gauteng Online

disasters, shortages and changes in economic conditions are concerned. Itwill also enable a greater sharing of the benefits of economic growth in the province.well-functioning system that can accommodate and entce brownfield re-developmentand reduce the wish or need for developing on new greenfield sites.• While some of these drivers may never materialise, planning for them will in mostcases improve the living conditions of all the inhabitants of the province and ensuregreater sustainability, equity and inclusiveness in economic growth.• Maintenance and upgrading of infrastructure is crucialto enable the province toprosper and survive whatever the future can throw at it.• Specific measures will be required to ensure that the poor do not lose out insofar asnew technologies are concerned and that such technologies do not resultin new and even deeper forms of fragmentation and segregation.AN OVERVIEW OF PLANNING AT LOCAL GOVERNMENT LEVELTO DATEThe primary economic hub of Gauteng Province consists of three metropolitan municipalities:the City of Johannesburg, the City of Tshwane and Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipalities.The remainder comprises three district municipalities, each of which encompasses a numberof local municipalities. West Rand District Municipality is comprised of the MerafongCity, Randfontein, Westonaria and Mogale City Local Municipalities, and Sedibeng DistrictMunicipality includes Emfuleni, Midvaal, and Lesedi Local Municipalities (refer toFigure 2-1).SECTION 2: THE GSDF AS A CONCEPTWays and measures to influence and counter the above-mentioned drivers are noted asfollows:• Implementation of sustainability measures and building techniques through IntegratedDevelopment Plans, Spatial Development Plans, sector plans for water services, roads,sewerage and electricity and the land use management system;• Research, innovation and development into ways of inter alia maximising the benefitfrom investment, better ways of growing the economy and creating jobs;• Enforcement and implementation of legal and policy frameworks, implementingland use management systems and ensuring the integration and coordination in andamongst the three spheres of government;• Integrated planning, budgeting and implementation, an inclusive, rational, programmaticway of attending to the preparation, funding and implementation of plans;• Better administration and management of the activities of the State and the enablingand regulatory frameworks put in place for the private sector; and• Changing behaviour and education to ensure a situation where politicians, officials,communities and developers all share the same concern for sustainable, inclusive andequitable growth; and maintenance and upgrading of infrastructure and public spaceto ensure the development and retention of high quality human settlements and aAt a provincial level, however, apart from economic growth and transportation planning,there has been little to guide municipalities in the preparation of their SDFs, and the exercisehas, in the main, been undertaken at an isolated local municipal level without cognisanceof how they collectively comprise a province-wide development framework.The preparation now of the G2055 initiative and the GSDF has been recognised as animportant opportunity to provide a clear spatial intent on how development of Gautengas a whole is to be configured, the morphological principles on which it will developand where strategic input is to take place.11 GAUTENG SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK 2011 GAUTENG GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY