Description: The City of Cape Town Ground Level Map 2019 is defined in the City of Cape Town Municipal Planning Amendment By-law, 2019 as: “‘City of Cape Town Ground Level Map’ means a map approved in terms of the development management scheme, indicating the existing ground level based on floating point raster’s and a contour dataset from LiDAR information available to the City”. Contour lines connect a series of points of equal elevation and are used to illustrate topography, or relief, on a map and can be drawn at various desired intervals. This dataset displays contours drawn at every 2m height interval. Numerous contours that are close together indicate hilly or mountainous terrain; and when far apart, they represent a gentler slope. The contours were derived from LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) data that was captured in 3 blocks in the years 2018 to 2019. The LiDAR point cloud has a density of 2 to 3 points per square metre at a vertical accuracy of 0.1m (95%). The contours are derived through bipolar interpolation from the 5m TIN model. The height reference used is the SA Land Levelling Datum and the SAGEOID2010 was employed.
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Contact: Ms. Lara Röttcher, Tel. 021 487 2599, email: lara.rottcher@capetown.gov.za.
Data distributed by City Maps public counter, 7th Floor, Keller House, 121 Loop Street, Cape Town .
Description: Urban Development Edge: 20230126(Council-approved MSDF Jan 2023)A demarcated edge line defining the outer limits of urban development for a determined period of time. There are two types of edge lines, namely urban development edge lines and coastal edge lines, - theformer being a medium- to long-term edge line, where the line has been demarcated in a position tophase urban growth appropriately, or to protect natural resources. The original Provincial gazette notice for the Coastal Management line was adopted on 19 March 2021, which was used as a basis for the Council approved MSDF Coastal Edge (January 2023). The amendments affect only the Cape Flats and Khayelitsha Districts, with the endorsement of Environmental Management Department.
Copyright Text: Urban Planning & Design, City of Cape Town
Description: New Development Areas: 20221103(Council-approved Jan 2023)An area earmarked for future development.Undeveloped and partially developed land parcels that are suited for future residential or non-residentialurban development, which were identified through a technical investigative process for the City’s 2040Land Use Model in order to determine the required supply and quantum of residential and nonresidential development to accommodate the projected future growth of population in Cape Town.
Copyright Text: District Planning and Mechanisms Branch, Urban Planning & Design, City of Cape Town
Description: MURP areas include: Athlone CBD; Bellville Transport Interchange and Voortrekker Road Corridor; Bishop Lavis, Valhalla Park, Bonteheuwel; Gatesville CBD); Harare and Kuyasa Transport Interchanges; Macassar; Manenberg, Hanover Park); Mitchells Plan Town Centre; Nyanga/Guguletu; Ocean View; Parow (Voorterkker Road Corridor); and Wesfleur Business Node (Atlantis)
Description: Mixed use intensification areas: 20230126 (Council-approved Jan 2023)
These are developed or partially developed areas where further intensification anddiversification of existing land uses is supported or where appropriate redevelopment to amix of land uses is actively encouraged.
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Description: Floor area factor is the amount of floor space an owner can develop on the land unit. The factor is expressed as a proportion of the land unit size. These floor factors are ‘special floor factors’ that are applicable in addition to their base zone because they are part of an overlay.
Copyright Text: Transport & Urban Development Authority, Development Management
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Description: The delineation of the proposed Incentive Overlay Zones for five areas in Athlone, Maitland, Parow/Elsies River; Diep River; and Bellville, to be included in the Municipal Planning By-law (MPBL), pending the outcome of the public participation process and Council approval.Each IOZ area is divided into subareas and every subarea has its own additional or enhanced development rights.
Copyright Text: City of Cape Town data prepared by District Spatial Planning and Mechanisms Branch
Description: Land zoned as a Subdivisional Area may be subdivided as contemplated in The Municipal Planning By-law. Conditions of approval for rezoning to Subdivisional Area are subject to prescribed conditions.
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Description: The V&A Waterfront is subject to specific land use provisions in order to allow specific development to take place. These provisions are directly applicable and permissible for the V&A Waterfront in terms of the Zoning Scheme (Development Management Scheme) allowing for more development rights than contained in the Zoning Scheme alone.
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Description: PBDM maintains the City’s Estates dataset. Estates are similar to Complexes but different in that Estates tend to be larger and can often have a number of Complexes inside the Estate as well as Sectional Scheme properties. That is not always the case however but Estates, like Complexes, have Single Title properties. Typically Estates have a very specific ‘lifestyle’ aim and are built around a specific purpose. Examples are Golf Estates, Country Estates, Equestrian Estates etc. Typically Estates are Gated and similar to Complexes, each Estate will have a single name displayed at the entrance.
Copyright Text: Transport & Urban Development Authority, Development Management
Description: Complexes are a group of Single Title Residential Properties with a uniform theme and look. Each Complex will have a single name and typically the name will be clearly indicated at the main entrance to the Complex. It is typically gated with access or security control although that is not always the case.
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Description: On Street Parking is a point layer where every point represents a single parking area on a public road. Restrictions may apply on the parking area. The parking bay could also be managed by CoCT as income generating asset. Only attribute captured is construction material.
Copyright Text: Cape Town's Transport and Development Authority (TDA) - Transport for Cape Town (TCT)
Description: These are the 5km protective action and 16km urgent protective zones in accordance to the Koeberg nuclear emergency plan in case of an emergency or evacuation. Development within these boundaries are regulated and/or restricted.
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Description: A SARS/ City initiative introduced in 2003, premised on tax incentives within specific city precincts linked to urban renewal and reinvestment. The aim of the UDZ is to stimulate private sector-led residential and commercial development in inner-city areas with developed public transport facilities by means of a tax incentive administered by SARS.
Description: Scenic routes (of tourism value, among other) are public roads that traverse areas of outstanding scenic quality or that provide a view of scenic areas. Scenic routes facilitate appreciation of Cape Town's natural, built and cultural heritage, and in themselves have become attractions. (2012) Where applicable, relevant Land Use requirements are introduced adjacent to these routes.
Description: Development Corridors - Option 1: 20220922
Typified by intensified and diversified land use, these corridors reflect the targeted, prioritised areasearmarked for the largest spectrum of land use mix associated with the highest density of populationand employment. They are inclusive of Integration Zones and link diverse economic nodes - ranging frommature and developing to emerging, and across a hierarchy of function and services levels(metropolitan and sub-metropolitan.
Copyright Text: District Planning and Mechanisms Branch, Urban Planning & Design, City of Cape Town
Description: Development Focus Areas: 20230126 (Council-approved Jan 2023)This is a draft representation of a selection of five TDA Project locations to enhance the City Viewer experience on the TDA website. The objectives of these projects include mixed use integrated development, local employment opportunities, affordable housing opportunities, private investment opportunities and integrated development with public transport provision.TDA Projects:1) Foreshore Freeway ProjectThe Foreshore Freeway Precinct includes several unfinished freeways originally designed to link the Nelson Mandela and F.W. De Klerk Boulevards, heading into central Cape Town from the southern and northern suburbs respectively, with an elevated freeway system along the border of the foreshore precinct and the Cape Town harbour. This project is considered to be a significant lever for public and private transport Investment with large scale opportunity for TOD and a balanced mix of land uses and economic investment.Project objectives also include the provision of affordable housing opportunities, private investment opportunities, congestion relief and improved access.Proposals have been shortlisted, opened for public participation, and are now being evaluated by City of Cape Town.2) BellvilleThe City’s investment into this nodal scale redevelopment initiative is in the form of substantial investment to upgrade the public transport interchange and integrate it with the rail station to support existing and potential future land uses. Packaging of the former Paint City site is also part of the intiative.Project objectives include transformation and social inclusion, rates generation and land sale and mixed income and mixed use development to better leverage private sector investment.3) Philippe EastThis is an important node with regards to the City’s Integrated Public Transport Network Plan (IPTN) as it is located at the convergence of six planned Integrated Rapid Transit (IRT) system trunk routes. Project objectives include mixed use integrated development, local employment opportunities, affordable housing opportunities, private investment opportunities and integrated development with public transport provision. 4) AthloneThis project presents opportunities for Integration between BRT, rail and land development. Project objectives include spatial transformation and social inclusion, mixed income and mixed use development, Transit Oriented Development associated efficiencies and form, leveraging private sector investment, rates generation and land sale.5) PaardevleiThis project presents the opportunity to leverage public transport investment in rail link as well as future road-based public transport options. The land can also be used for a balanced mix of residential and job creation opportunities.
Description: Urban Support Focus Areas: 20230126 (Council-approved Jan 2023)Spatially targeted areas that are faced with a combination of challenges including but not limited toinfrastructure failure and service delivery challenges; high socio-economic need and crime rates andrequire a co-ordinated public investment and planning approach in the short to medium term. SeePriority Local Facilitation Areas (PLFAs).
Copyright Text: Urban Planning & Design, City of Cape Town
Description: Environmental Focus Areas: 20230126 (Council-approved Jan 2023)Spatially targeted areas with critical environmental significance (in terms of national conservationtargets) outside of formally protected areas which have been identified as priority areas for investmentand/or protection in the short to medium term. See Priority Local Facilitation Areas (PLFA).
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Description: Agricultural areas of significance in the City of Cape Town: 20220202 (Council-approved MSDF Jan 2023)
Areas of high potential and unique agricultural land worthy of long-term protection given uniqueproduction, cultural and heritage attributes. This includes land that is currently cultivated, has beencultivated within the past 10 years, has the soil potential to be cultivated or be regarded as high-valuegrazing land, and contributes to food security, irrespective of extent. This can include non-arable landthat supports the ecological support system. Areas delineated in consultation with the lead district planners in City of Cape Town & Western Cape Department of Agriculture, Elsenburg taking into account the Urban Development Edge, New Development Areas and Core 1 Critical Biodiversity Areas of the City of Cape Town Biodiversity Network. These Biodiversity areas are a combination of protected & conservation areas (cadastrally defined), as well as critical Core 1 biodiversity (not cadastrally defined)
Copyright Text: Western Cape Department of Agriculture: Cor vd Walt (Land Use Management), Francois Koegelenberg (Research Support Services)
City of Cape Town Urban Planning & Design Department: Tanya Kieswetter & Annelise De Bruin
Description: Spatial Transformation Areas: 20230126 (Council-approved MSDF Jan 2023)
The process of reversing the negative impacts of apartheid spatial planning (spatial fragmentation,inefficient urban form, racial segregation and ghettos of poverty etc.). Integrating communities andincreasing opportunities to a greater number of people in highly connected areas are among the keyoutcomes of spatial transformation. Renouncing the creation of new low-income communities on theperiphery of the city is also a key principle to avoid the need for these groups to spend a disproportionateamount of household income on transport and remain distant and dislocated from the socio-economicbenefits and amenities associated with central urban locations.Urban Inner Core (UIC) - Diverse and dense land uses encouraged in association with current and future public transport infrastructure provision and priority given to spatially targeted interventions. Incremental Growth & Consolidation Areas (IGCA) - Diverse and dense land uses encouraged, where bulk engineering infrastructure allows, with incremental intensification (density and diversity) and retention of open space corridors and pockets of agricultural land.Discouraged Growth Areas (DGA) - Discourage land use activities that can be accommodated within the existing urban footprint or the future urban extent (UIC & IGCA) to protect critical agricultural and natural assets; promotion of suitable land usesCritical Natural Assets(CNA)- : Encouraged to retain in a natural state,with a management plan focused on maintaining or improving the state of biodiversity.Any land development permitted within a Protected Area, must be in accordance with an approved management plan, in terms of the National Environment Management: Protected Areas Act (NEM: PAA).