1 Integrated development planning – a strategic tool for embedding sustainable practices in local government: the experiences of the eThekwini Municipality,

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Integrated development planning – a

strategic tool for embedding

sustainable practices in local

government: the experiences of the

eThekwini Municipality, Durban.

City Energy Strategies Conference

Cape Town, 19-21 Nov 2003

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1. Deepened understanding of CDS / IDPs

2. Shared experiences of eThekwini lessons

3. Debate stimulation around energy strategy formulation in relation to IDPs / CDS

Presentation Outcomes

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1. Understanding City Development Strategies

2. The eThekwini Approach

3. Relationship between CDS & Energy Strategy

4. So what?

Presentation Outline

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1. City Development Strategies: some key characteristics

• Long term vision for short term action• Collective city vision• Focus on points of leverage• Tool for mobilising resources across city• Targeted involvement of poor communities• Planning across boundaries• Co-ordinated public sector spending

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Unsustainable path

2. The eThekwini Approach: LTDF+ IDP=CDS

Sustainable path

IDP (2002-2007)• strategically led• outcomes based• integrated delivery

Current trends

LTDF vision 2020

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eThekwini Strategic Planning Approach

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STRATEGIC FOCUS AREAS:

Our Long Term Development Framework

– Meeting Basic Needs (unwind apartheid legacy)

– Strengthening the Economy (build on strengths)

– Building skills & Technology (Create the new invest in the future)

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Outlines our city’s five year strategic focus areas within overall LTDF

Strategic, not comprehensive!!!

Not just the city’s planning tool, but an inclusive planning instrument that mobilises support of all city sectors and players

Helps direct city spending in a more strategic way

IDP firmly institutionalised in Council

IDP drives the PMS !

Our 5 year IDP: some successes

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Entrenching sustainability as part of the way we do business: IDP Review process re-oriented way we

thought about sustainability

Chapter on Sustainable Development was re-written!

Now all Deputy City Managers are accountable for ensuring sustainable practices

Our 5 year IDP: some successes

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• In the past: started strategic processes by commissioning SECTORAL ANALYSES

• We then developed detailed SECTORAL STRATEGIES

• Then came the challenge of INTEGRATION!• This was based on a conceptual model of

“thinking in parts”

3. Relationship between IDP / CDS and our Energy strategy

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• We have since learnt that this approach does not work!!!

• It is more useful to build in sustainable energy issues as part of the strategic framework

• Lets not treat the CDS / IDP process as a separate, but related process – they are not!

• Does not mean that a separate Energy Strategy is not necessary, but only that the issue is to be mainstreamed

• Examples from eThekwini:– Project on harnessing methane gas – S D F promotes energy efficiency

3. Relationship between IDP / CDS and our Energy Strategy (ctd)

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400ha

135 ha

155ha

Housing: In Situ Upgrade

Housing: Greenfields

Private: Greenfields Residential

Economic Development

Economic Development

Economic Development:Hectares developed per area over 10 years

LEGEND

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Relocation of some 240ha of existing economic activity from currently serviced areas (Inner city & SIB)Take up 10ha pa

From our SDF:

Current trend scenario• development in outlying areas not sustainable

• reduction in maintenance/ rehabilitation of infrastructure (need to spend 1.7% of asset value = R868M)

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• Outward growth forces spending on new platform infrastructure with a high cost : benefit ratio

• 20 year population projection – no growth

• Contributes to confidence crisis in CBD & SIB

• Public transport system becomes non-viable because it is reliant on a healthy CBD and SIB

• Not energy efficient – greater carbon monoxide emissions as a result of poor spatial form

• Housing in outlying locations incur high transport subsidy costs, e.g. if a house was located centrally rather than in Mpumalanga, the higher cost of land is offset in 5 to 7 years through savings on transport subsidies

SDF Current trends

Unsustainable because:

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Urban Edge• Includes 83% of population• Includes entire HPPTN• Includes majority of high density informal settlements• Sewer capacity inside line

Urban core• Need to differentiate areas of developmental intervention verses maintenance• Need to identify area of highest level of infrastructure excess capacity for densification at lowest cost

Our new Framework to ensure Sustainability

Rural/Peri urban• 65% of the municipal area• dispersed settlements• sparsely populated• important environmental services• rich cultural traditions

High Priority Public Transport Network

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• From our process in eThekwini, we have learnt that:

– the IDP/CDS process affords us an excellent opportunity to mainstream energy issues

– If IDP is strategic, has full support of political and administrative leadership, promotes innovation and creativity, then the IDP can be a critical vehicle to achieve aims of sustainable energy strategies

– Lets not give the energy strategy a life of is own as a sectoral issue – instead champion it as part of the strategic vision of the city

4. So what ?