Summary of key issues with the current District Plan

As a result of the review of current policies and rules specific to airfields, airstrips and helicopter landing pads, we’ve identified the following issues with the current District Plan:

• Current approach to managing geotechnical risk within the current District Plan isn’t up to date and robust.
• Absence of a comprehensive risk-based approach to natural hazard management across the district and for different land uses.
• Few rules specifically dealing with geotechnical risk, particularly active faults.
• For managing geotechnical risk the current District Plan relies heavily on geotechnical assessments as part of the subdivision developments and plan changes for rezoning. However, not all subdivisions are required to provide a geotechnical assessment and many land development projects don’t involve subdivision.
• While the district has active fault lines, areas of known liquefaction susceptibility and areas of slope instability, there’s little recognition in the Plan of these areas, although active faults are included on the planning maps.