Sustainable Development and Local Government Ann Magee Chair LGNZ Sustainable Development Project Team

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Sustainable DevelopmentandLocal GovernmentAnn
MageeChair LGNZSustainable DevelopmentProject
Team
17 June 2005
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Local Government Act

• Enable democratic local decision-making ..S.10
• Provides for local authorities to playa broad
  role in promoting the social, economic,
  environmental and cultural wellbeing of their
  communities, takinga sustainable development
  approach (S.3)

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Local Government Act

• In taking a sustainable development approach, a
  local authority should take into account
• Social, economic and cultural well-being of
  people and communities
• The need to maintain and enhance the quality of
  the environment
• The reasonably foreseeable needs of the future
  generations

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Sustainable DevelopmentProgramme of Action

• FocusSustainable development must be atthe
  core of all government policy
• 1 of 3 key documents
• Growing an Innovative NZ
• Key Government Goals for the Public Sector
• Sustainable DevelopmentProgramme of Action

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Sustainable DevelopmentProgramme of Action

• It builds on recent strategies (and) the new
  local government legislation which gives local
  authorities a mandate to take the lead in
  achieving sustainable development locally

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Sustainable Development Strategies

• Biodiversity Strategy
• National Waste Strategy
• Regional Economic Development/GIF
• Agenda for Children
• Kyoto protocol
• National Land Transport Strategy
• NEECS (Energy)
• Voluntary Sector Strategy
• Land Transport Management Act
• Building Act

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Sustainable DevelopmentProgramme of Action

• Key areas
• Infusing a sustainabledevelopment approach /
  government sector
• Water
• Energy
• Sustainable Cities
• Investing in children youth

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Sustainability Framework
Equity Inclusion Security
Quality of life
Economic growth
Impact on environmentalquality
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Key Drivers - Global

• Finite Resources
• Rising inequity
• Carbon constraints
• Water crisis/energy crisis
• Rising risks
• Alternatives exist (value-based strategies)

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Sustainable Development Strategies Local
Government

• Regional
• Auckland Regional GrowthStrategy
• Lake Taupo / Waikato River
• Clean Air(Canterbury, Auckland)
• Economic growth strategies

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Sustainable Development Local Government

• Sector base capability, initiatives
• Waitakere Eco City/collaboration
• Christchurch Sustainability/energy
• Kaikoura Green Globe
• 30 zero waste communities,TLAs
• Tomorrows Manukau
• Early LTCCPs

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Costs of piping Costs of natural treatment
Asset values depreciate over time
Costs
Asset values appreciate over time
Cost to develop 140 to 1000 per metre
Cost to replace 500 to 1300 per metre
Replacement needed about every 150 years
Replacement may never be needed
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Auckland Regional Response to SDPA Sustainable
Cities

• Pilot for process / actions
• Basis
• Builds on strengths(Regional Growth Strategy)
• Removes barriers(Transport)
• Supports wellbeing
• Economic goals integral

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Regional Drivers Opportunities

• Energy Vulnerability
• Population Growth (400,000 over 20 years)
• Transport/Urban quality
• Inequalities (wellbeing, health, income)
• Competitiveness
• Environmental damage
• Public/Private investment (squillions?)

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Regional Context - Change

• Government Sector - emphasis on Sustainable
  Development
• Regional, City, 10 Year Plans (2006-16)
• Land use/transport funding aligned (LG(A)AA by
  2007?)
• Built Environment Programme

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SDPOA Auckland Pilot (Sustainable Cities)

• Transport/urban form (Walking School Buses)
• Sustainable communities (Twin Streams)
• Investing in Children and Youth
  (Education/Citizens)
• Urban Form Design and Development
• change rules, examples
• sustainable Auckland by 2010?

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Workstrand Transport Urban Form

• Why this workstrand was chosen
• Aucklands sprawling urban form
• Poor linkage between transport and urban form
• Long trips, heavy reliance on private vehicles
• Problems of congestion environmental impacts
• Overall Objective
• Build foster Auckland region urban communities
  where sustainable transport choices are the norm

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Urban Form Design Development (UFDD)
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Objective
Encourage, promote and guide more sustainable
urban form, design and development in the
Auckland region, including building design
location and construction.
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Outcomes

• Sustainable building standards and practice
• Increased knowledge and buy-in to sustainable
  UFDD
• Strategic public investment decisions by Auckland
  local authorities and central government

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Project Streams
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UFDD - Focus

• Building Act (sustainability core)
• Building Code (sustainability elements)
• Better urban design / intensification quality
• Standards for sustainable buildings, housing,
  neighbourhoods, town centres, catchments
• Public buildings meet best practice standards
• Demonstration projects
• (NB meshes with Transport, Children Youth,
  Community Migrant programmes)

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Progress to Date

• Influencing Building Code Review
• Promoting TUSC tool
• Research projects andsector connections
• Preparing evidential basis and practice notes for
  Sustainable Public Buildings
• Urban Design Protocol sign-up

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Project to June 2006

• Sustainable Public Buildings 2007
• Evidential basis, guidelines/practice notes
• Physical demonstrations
• Sustainable Building Index
• Programme for implementation of TUSC
• Other research, improved networks,

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Research Initiatives

• 14M FRST money plus other sources
• Mostly 6-year programmes with potential to
  partner with Councils
• Beacon retrofitting houses, new technologies,
  neighbourhood design

• TUSC flexible performance-based assessment tool
  for sites and catchments

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What We Have Learned

• Collaboration benefits
• Dedicated resourcing required
• Clear agenda vision works
• Entrenched silos remain
• Lack urban specialists
• Agenda for cities set by others
• How well do we understand metropolitan cities /
  regions

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Sustainable CitiesWe know broadly what we want
From Sprawl
To more Compact City
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Sustainable?
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Drivers
Ecological footprint
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• The best way to predict the future is to invent
  it.
• Peter Drucker