Community Planning Of the Indigenous

Community Planning Of the Indigenous

Proposal

Introduction

Planning is a critical element of any city or local authority. The aspect allows the cities to advance and do so in a sustainable means. In light too this, I purposed to attend a meeting in the City of Vancouver to understand the critical role that the local authorities play entirely. Over the years, the city has grown at a tremendous pace nut it is impressive how some intimate spaces have been maintained. With the influx of the new, exemplary designed buildings dotting the landscape, the paper seeks to examine the palling process that goes behind the glamour we see in the city skyscrapers.

Statement problem

The city authority approves and rejects a considerable number of projects within its jurisdiction on an annual basis. There is a fact that is deeply enshrined in the acceptance or rejection of a project. There several players who also add their voice in the decision of whether a project is acceptable or not. After having a theoretical framework of how things work in the local authorities, attending a meeting of such caliber on planning offers firsthand experience in the planning proves and the stakeholders involved.

Objectives

• To understand the role of the local authorizes in the planning process
• To define the laws and policies around the planning process
• To examine the application of the legislation on planning
• To underscore the impact of planning on the community
• To analyses literature that supports or decant the practice of the local authorities acting as the approval body

Hypothesis

The general hypothesis when going to the meeting is that the local authority plays a central role in the approvals and that not all proposed developments get to see the light of the day.

Report

 Introduction

The report is from a meeting held in the City hall of the city of Sydney in Canada. The exact venue was the Council Chamber at the Vancouver Town Hall. The initial plan was on the aspects of city planning in the city of Vancouver.

 Actors in the meeting

The Gathering brought together, urban planners, the city planning authority, private developers, architects and engineers, environmentalists as well as the general public.  The urban planners had a role of ensuring proposals and plans discussed in the meeting are in strict adherence with the local guidelines provide on the subject of planning. Their professional views, opinion, and advice serve an operating standard of approval of developments as well as demolition across the city. The city planning department is another pivotal body that was participating in a bid also to ensure compliance and extensive consultations with the stakeholders. Private and public developers are tasked with ensuring the designs are actualized as envisioned by the architects and engineers.  The general public had a simple role in ensuring that the neighborhood buys in and offer their opinion and suggestions about the potential development and city changes. The environment and aspects of a project are very crucial in the sense that any developing or advanced events need to consider possible environments impacts and feel plans that have no far-reaching implications. Environmental scientists are an essential lot that offers professional advisory in terms of the effects on the environment and the ecosystem.

Community, Municipality or City Policies

Environmental Planning and Assessment Act, 1979

The Act was passed in Vancouver. The ActAct plays a pivotal role in the institutionalization of the environmental systems of planning as well as environmental planning in the New South Wales State. The Act considers the three-phase of the government, including the local authority, regional, and also state government demanding that the planning institutions in the various levels of governance consider built and natural environment impacts and community for the proposal of land use and developments. The ActAct then requires the existence of statements that details the environmental impact that includes human and natural environments. The ActAct is divided into eight series covering the entire scope of environmental assessments.

Environmental Planning and Assessment Act, 1979

The policy is meant to improve regulation framework by offering efficiency and certainty in planning infrastructure and delivery of services. The services include flexibility in locating facilities and support, enabling redevelopment and development of extra governed properties, categorization, and identification of assessment needs for different support. Notice considerations in a development and adjacent existing development, allow for public authority consultation before development projects start and also give an opening for the development of good design and good outcome infrastructure projects. The application of the policy is across the state, and it came into action from the beginning of January 2008.

Environmental Planning and Assessment Act, 1979

The Act seeks to clarify that Vancouver was the principal center of the Metropolitan Sydney.it supports the location as pivotal for business, education, tourism, and culture. To enhance ecological sustainability, to improve the city’s economic status, encourage city diversification through variety and affordable housing. Promote infrastructure and services that meet the needs of workers, locals, and visitors, improve infrastructure and living standards. Securing new urban development with explicit designs, enhance environmental conservation, and enable the dwellers to enjoy the natural environment through setting up of designated parks and recreational amenities.

Constructive and unproductive aspects of the meeting

The meeting was well controlled, and it adhered to the set schedule. The plan included disclosure of interest, confirmation of the minutes from the previous session, and then it delved deeper into the analysis of the various development application. The effort to review the minutes of the last meeting gave a critical background essential in grasping the entire concept of what was being discussed in the conference. As opposed to clustering or considering the development allocation in a mixed manner. It was particularly impressive how the department started with the application that dated back in 2018 and chronologically progressed, handling each request to completion up to the latest cases of 2019.

The meeting delayed with about twenty minutes. Because I arrived before time, this means that I had to sit idly at the hall, waiting for the participants to arrive. The public presence and participation were consciously lacking, suggesting that the public was not interested in the reviews, or they were not well informed about the proceedings. Also, the fact that the meeting just ended without summarization of the entire operations seemed to be an element of undoing to the practice of public participation. There is a need for such sessions in the future to provide a summary and possible printout of the verdicts from the applications.

Linkages to topics

Wood and Becker (2007), in a study, screen the decision making steps when it comes to the environmental impact assessment. The authors recommend the application of an environmental impact assessment before commencing any project. The paper draws a comparison of cases in Wales and England, especially after the years 1999 when the EIA regulations were revised. The facts are easily comparable to Australia, and as seen in the policies, environmental impact assessment needs to be performed before any project is approved.

Lyles, Berke, and Smith (2015), in a separate study conducted in the US, found that implementation of policies was moderate in terms of progress. Still, there was a significant variation that was dependent on the state in which a local authority is located.   The case can be applied in North Vancouver in Canada considering its similarity with the US. This means that the local authorities have a more significant say in the regional planning and approval of the development. The domestic policies greatly vary from state to state and from one administration to another. The variations cast a difference in the development models adopted in the various locations all across Canada.

The potential impact of issues discussed on the city

Commercial; approval of commercial projects like housing and business developments are a critical economic stimulus that is set to benefit the town. Investors venture into various businesses and events to cash in on the profitability of the event. From the meeting, some progress was accepted, while others were rejected. Those whose projects were approved are in a path of possible success and having an unforgettable economic market in the ever-expanding economy of Vancouver. There is an abiding cist with approvals, and the local authority is set to benefit from the cost of support and review of the prospect development.

Environmental; environmental impact assessment is a pivotal part of the approval or rejection of a project. It is hoped that the analyses did an excellent job of carrying out the test and that the returned results were accurate. The assessments are a basis of approval or rejection of developments. Faulty adoption could result in irreversible environmental impacts that the community and the city would have to live by.

Developments of infrastructure and amenities; approvals means that the areas will have more developed and advanced support. The foundation will not only be beneficial to the developer but also the community. Some roads, street lights, and other public amenities are repaired, bettered or instituted in cases where a development emerges in the local municipality

Conclusion

Growth in the ever-expanding cities is a carefully guided and monitored process that occurs in strict adherence to the national, regional, state, and district laws and policies. Scrutiny to ensure compliance enables controlled development and controlled land use and installment of infrastructure. Any city should provide a secure, efficient, and robust review process rid of bureaucracies. The meeting offered critical insight into the concept of urban planning and development, especially in the context of local authorities. Scholarly materials have been written in support of the practice, and the paper samples several academic works. The development impacts the projects impose on the locations are then examined in a bid to understand the effect of the process in detail. Indeed urban planning a delicate balance between sustainability and development. The local authorities play a pivotal role in ensuring compliance.

References

Lyles, W., Berke, P., & Smith, G. (2016). Local plan implementation: assessing conformance and influence of local plans in the United States. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 43(2), 381–400. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265813515604071

Wood, G., & Becker, J. (2005). Discretionary Judgement in Local Planning Authority Decision Making: Screening Development Proposals for Environmental Impact Assessment. Journal Of Environmental Planning And Management, 48(3), 349-371. https://doi.org/10.1080/09640560500067467