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Christine Wyatt De

Development Contribution Reform: Implementing Standard Levies Municipal Association of Victoria 23 May 2014. Christine Wyatt De. Christine Wyatt Deputy Secretary, Planning Department of Transport, Planning and Local Infrastructure.

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  1. Development Contribution Reform: Implementing Standard LeviesMunicipal Association of Victoria23 May 2014 Christine Wyatt De Christine Wyatt Deputy Secretary, Planning Department of Transport, Planning and Local Infrastructure

  2. Development Contribution Reform: Implementing Standard Levies

  3. Development Contribution Reform: Implementing Standard Levies

  4. Development Contribution Reform: Implementing Standard Levies Reform outcomes • Delivering an effective, transparent and simple mechanism for development contributions in priority growth locations • Reining in rapidly-escalating costs to homebuyers and assist in maintaining an affordable land supply for Victorian families • System refocus to deliver ‘basic and essential’ infrastructure supporting growing communities • Greater certainty to councils and the development industry • Emphasis on reporting and accountability for contributions collected and infrastructure spend

  5. Development Contribution Reform: Implementing Standard Levies • Biggest reform since introduction in 1990s

  6. Development Contribution Reform: Implementing Standard Levies

  7. Development Contributions Reform: Implementing Standard Levies • Standard Development Contributions Advisory Committee: • ‘Report 2: Setting the Levies’ • 36 recommendations • Standard levies within a new ‘Development Levy System’ • Identified different development settings to apply standard levies • Recommended a new tool for reflecting in the planning scheme and approval process

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  9. Development Contributions Reform: Implementing Standard Levies • Key concepts • Two development settings • Strategic Development Areas • Greenfield Growth Areas • Metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas • Categories of Land uses – residential, retail, commercial/industrial • Categories of infrastructure – Allowable items

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  11. Development Contribution Reform: Implementing Standard Levies • Allowable items • Identifying infrastructure items allowed to be included in an Infrastructure Contribution Plan and therefore contributed to by a Standard or Supplementary Levy • Allowable Items established up front to deliver transparency and certainty • Clear boundaries around what is to be considered ‘basic and essential’ infrastructure Includes community facilities, local sporting facilities, parks, public realm improvements, roads Doesn't include -regional facilities, eg. major sporting facility or regional aquatic centres

  12. Development Contributions Reform: Implementing Standard Levies • Strategic Development Areas • Sites or defined areas that provide valuable development opportunities located close to public transport and other infrastructure, in both metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas. • Generally identified in Plan Melbourne or regional growth plans.

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  14. Development Contributions Reform: Implementing Standard Levies • Greenfield Growth Areas • Land in or proposed to be included in the Urban Growth Zone and/or priority growth areas in Regional Victoria • Providing new opportunities to support growth in Regional Victoria

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  17. Development Contribution Reform: Implementing Standard Levies Strategic Framework How is an Infrastructure Contribution Plan prepared?

  18. Development Contribution Reform: Implementing Standard Levies Strategic Framework ICP Preparation How is an Infrastructure Contribution Plan prepared? Infrastructure Standing Advisory Committee Infrastructure Standing Advisory Committee

  19. Development Contribution Reform: Implementing Standard Levies How is an Infrastructure Contribution Plan prepared? Infrastructure Standing Advisory Committee

  20. Development Contribution Reform: Implementing Standard Levies • Implementation Package • Legislation to amend Planning and Environment Act 1987 • Ministerial Direction on the form and content of Infrastructure Contribution Plans • Infrastructure Contribution Overlay, Schedule and supporting Practice Note • Infrastructure Contributions Plan Guidelines • Implementation guidelines – Design guidelines for roads, Works in kind • Terms of Reference and appointment of the Infrastructure Standing Advisory Committee • Implementation Reference Group • Standard Levies will go live on 1 July 2015

  21. Development Contribution Reform: Implementing Standard Levies • Key questions that have arisen since announcement • Urban Areas - Why is there no development setting for urban areas? • Strategic Development Area - What is an SDA? - How will they be applied at the local level? • Greenfield Growth Areas - non metropolitan - How is a ‘Small Town’ defined? • Transitions issues - Where planning scheme amendments are underway - Negotiating S.173 Agreements now or waiting for new system

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