Managing road safety and efficiency under the Resource Management Act 1991: The way forward

4. Structure of the best practice guideline

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This guideline is divided into five parts.

Section 5 describes the primary issue of road safety and efficiency, and how this appears to be typically dealt with in current district plans.

Secondary issues are then introduced in broad categories, with generic issues identified separately from rural and urban ones where possible.

This grouping has been made to avoid repetition by addressing each and every issue separately in recognition that many of the issues have very similar considerations. Irrespective of this, there is a significant degree of overlap and interrelationship between all the issues and provisions included in the district plan to deal with them.

Section 6 generally outlines how road safety and efficiency issues can be specifically addressed within the context of district plan provisions. The emphasis in this section is to identify key elements within different sections in district plans, such as objectives and rules, and describe their characteristics.

The findings of a review of a sample of district plans are also revealed, focusing on typical strategies and deficiencies in dealing with road safety and efficiency.

Section 7 assesses the issue groupings and expands on the key considerations of each.

Section 8 discusses road safety and efficiency in the context of the consideration of applications for resource consent. This relates to the appraisal of a proposal when informally posed to councils, as well as any evaluation through the formal planning process.

Section 9 highlights examples of ‘good’ provisions and discusses appropriate measures generally. This is extended by reference to examples in appendix 1 and appendix 2.

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