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TRU-Park

Introduction workshop 1

25 February 2016

Melanie Attwell and Associates

Lucien Le Grange Architects and Urban

Planners

Tender Process • Open tender advertised in January 2015 by WC Government: DTPW • The closing date for tender submission was the 2nd March 2015 • Our Team was interviewed during the 16 week adjudication period on

13th May 2015 • On 2nd July 2015, our Team was officially appointed as the successful

tenderer • The official Client is the WCG: DTPW, in partnership with the City of

Cape Town

Professional Team Required Personnel Name Company Lead Planner / Town Planner Nisa Mammon NM & Associates

Public Participation Practitioner Melikaya Ntshingwa, Fraser Siteti, Michael Krause

SUN Development

Urban Designer/s Jody Paterson, Lucien le Grange, Sabina Favaro, and Michael Krause

NM & Associates, Lucien le Grange Architects & SUN Development

Green Technology Specialist Carl Schneider RHDHV

Landscape Architect Tarna Klitzner Tarna Klitzner Landscape Architects

Urban Development Economist Francois Viruly Viruly Consulting

Professional Team Required Personnel Name Company Civil Engineer: Water & Sewer Pieter Jordaan RHDHV

Electrical / Power Engineer Beukes Kotze RHDHV

Civil Engineer: Stormwater Peter Hirschowitz RHDHV

Transport Planner / Traffic Engineer

Roy Bowman / Rory Williams

RHDHV

Environmental Practitioner Bronwen Griffiths RHDHV

Heritage Practitioner Melanie Attwell Melanie Atwell & Associates

Sustainable Development Planner

Gerhard Van Weele / Tasneem Steenkamp

RHDHV

The Site

Salt River Station

Pinelands Station

Maitland Station Koeberg Rd

Station

Ndabeni

The Site: Precincts

Education levels The TRU-Park site is surrounded by very diverse socio-economic conditions.

Income levels The TRU-Park site is surrounded by very diverse socio-economic conditions.

TRU-Park is sitting between two patterns of the distribution of social facilities.

Distribution of social facilities

The Team’s Brief

• To prepare a number of framework plans for the TRUP site with the objective of obtaining development rights for precincts and special release areas identified in the ToR.

• To follow a Package of Plans Approach in terms of Section 136 of the Cape Town Municipal By-law, 2015. A PoP allows the sequencing of integrated planning at increasingly detailed scales and applies to areas generally known as Special Areas.

• The Team will commence with a review of the CoCT approved 2003 TRUP Contextual Framework and Phase 1 Environmental Management Plan, then prepare a Development Framework, Precinct Plans and Site Development Plans as part of an application for rezoning.

Key objectives of the Brief

• To promote inclusivity and integration • To encourage sustainable development from an environmental, economic

and social perspective • To encourage partnerships to make public land viable so as to improve

under-performing properties • To explore the notion of live-work-play through high-density, transit

oriented, walkable and mixed use / income environments

TRU-Park Process

VISION ALIGNMENT + PRINCIPLES

SCENARIOS STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT

/ PUBLIC PARTICIPATION ASSESSMENT OF SCENARIOS

USING PRINCIPLES, ANALYSIS & STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT

ANALYSIS

CF REVIEW

UPDATED CA

PREFERED SCENARIO DEVELOPMENT

(CONTAINING VARIOUS PROPOSALS TO FEED INTO “CONCEPT”)

SPECIALIST INPUT

FLOODING MODEL

CoCT INPUT ON DEVIATION FROM SDF

DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK PHASE

BASELINE STUDIES

STATUS QUO MANIFESTO

INTRODUCTION MEETINGS

STAKEHOLDER MEETINGS

WORKSHOP

TRU-Park VISION

GLOBAL ALIGNMENT • UN Habitat SDG 11 : make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and

sustainable

NATIONAL / PARASTATAL ALIGNMENT

• National Planning Commission / NDP 2030

WCG ALIGNMENT

• TRUP Development Project / Cabinet approved / November 2012 • WCG / OneCape 2040 • WCG / 5 Strategic Goals / Gamechangers • WCG / Central City Regeneration Programme

CoCT ALIGNMENT • CoCT / City Development Strategy / 2040 • CoCT / Integrated Development Plan / 2012 – 2017

PLANNING LEGISLATION ALIGNMENT • Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act / 2013

MANIFESTO

Vision Alignment

WCG / cabinet approved ‘city for the future’

progressive environment

approach

preserve

open, green park like quality

metro urban

park

4 5 6

Sustainable

transport

Mixed use,

Mixed tenure

Develop funding

opportunities

1 2 3

alternative systems of technology

10

clear admin, management

and institutional

systems

integrative

space, response to culture and

memory

social partnership

9 8 7

10 Manifesto points / draft

dense and compact, self-sustaining carbon neutral, ‘green’ within a parkland

integrated with mixed land use, walkable and PT orientated

financially viable, profitable, stimulates economic growth and employment creation

sensitive to the areas heritage, cultural memory and diversity

socially responsive by undoing the legacies of the apartheid city planning / attending to needs of the current and future communities

Global alignment

18 Principles of design at site level

10 Manifesto points

TRUP Public Participation Process

• requires engagement that leads to broad ownership of development potential • requires broad engagement with interested and affected parties • different engagement intensities • process of engagement is inclusive and forward looking • process acknowledges and takes lessons from previous engagement [CoCT and TRUP Association]

TRUP PPP :

• to understand principles of development in the area, leading toward the ‘Manifesto’ • inclusive and transparent process to ensure design process takes cognisance of :

• Preparation for legislated processes [land use management processes]

Key Outcomes:

• prior planning • ideas of relevant stakeholders with an interest in the site • plans are shared with relevant stakeholders as these develop

Public Participation Process / stakeholders

• National and parastatal • Provincial government and line department representatives • City of Cape Town and line department representatives • Subcouncils and their Wards

1. Government

• Associations/Forums TRUP Steering Committee The Oude Molen Forum

Western Cape Diverse Traditional Leaders Forum • Civic and Rate Payer Associations [Mowbray, Pinelands, Maitland, Observatory, Kensington, Kew Town, Langa, Athlone] • Landowners • Private businesses

2. Directly affected stakeholders

3. Interested parties

• Businesses from surrounding areas • Individuals with special skills and knowledge • Research and professional sector bodies [UCT, CHEC, ILASA, UDISA, etc.] • Friends of the Liesbeek • Friends of the Black River • University of Cape Town • NGO’s

Public Participation Process

TRUP Engagement Process

Introduction Meetings

Stakeholder Meetings

Series of Workshops

• chairpersons • secretaries of steering committees • secretaries of associations

• stakeholder forums • engagements are to set the

stage for understanding the expectations and visions for TRUP

• Workshop 1 Group Introduction • Workshop 2 Manifesto discussion • Workhop 3 Constraints & Opportunities of site • Workshop 4 Scenario discussion • Workshop 5

Parallel via CoCT and WCG media liaison and communication strategy

1 2 3

Public Participation Process / meetings held thus far / February 2016

Summary of the TRUP meetings and engagements : • 8 meetings held with the Client [WCG / CoCT]

• 10 meetings held among the members of the TRUP Team

• 24 meetings held with various stakeholders

- PP meetings are highlighted in grey - a meeting was held with members from Sub council 15 - 21 meetings were held with the directly affected stakeholders

• a workshop and a follow-up technical meeting was held between the Dutch, the client and the

TRUP Team

A green corridor should be defined and a multi-purpose environmental space created that can support learning. They are happy that environmental practitioners are on board. - Friends of the Liesbeeck

Public Participation Process / meetings held thus far / extracts

The development should fit into other larger development plans for the City. - OCA

It is felt that NMT should be promoted; the area should not be built for cars only. -OCA

Concerns were raised about the use of “density”; it was felt that density should only be suggested where appropriate/necessary and development should be sensitive to heritage and the wetlands as well as to the legacy of Oude Molen. – Oude Molen Eco Village, TRUP Association

Safety is seen as essential. -OCA

The wetlands and TRUP is seen as a green lung for the city; this has value to the city as a whole. – TRUP Association & OCA

There was a full process of this kind done five years ago. …we want to see big development there; but we are scared that somebody will, in 5 years time, take the group through the same process again.. – Pinelands Rate payers / Resident association

.. their father King Fadana had aspired to establish a Xhosa/Nguni museum and cultural village site at Oude Molen. They wish to argue for the realisation of the King's aspirations. – Xhosa / Nguni traditional leaders

Langa must not be a tick box and not become part of the actual development that takes place; it must not be a talk shop. Ensure to have 2-3 people at the workshop. – Langa Civic Association

TRUP Public Participation Process

Open Questions

Media liaison protocol and responsibilities – What is our role in responding to media requests? How much background is useful to provide to the media? How can we use these opportunities for trust building? Weighting of potentially competing development interests on the site – When “maximizing development rights”, how does the client see the prioritization of public interest versus private sector interests for development rights in the TRUP area? TRUP- Association and Oude Molen Tenant situation – Special Meeting called by Alderman Walker on TRUP-A. - Appointment of Property Company in process Engagement with CoCT and WCG line departments in via workshop prior or after public workshop?