30 September 2010 Chapter 11 Urban Environments (Chapter 19) will address the compatibility of the commercial area with the transport network. Council Activities The Council will implement traffic and parking management controls, in terms of the Local Government Act, that are appropriate to the season and traffic volumes in order to minimise conflicts between users and ensure efficient movement of vehicles. The Council will obtain and develop land in appropriate locations for car parking. The Council will initiate the development of an urban design plan for the Central Business Zone and encourage town centre promotion by stake-holders in the zone. The Council will facilitate, where possible, the redevelopment of sites within the Central Business Zone to accommodate improved commercial facilities and to enable the most efficient use of land and buildings. The Council as a landowner of significant underdeveloped sites within the town centre, (purchased to provide car parking for the Primary Shopping Area), will consider enabling infill development on those sites, where sufficient parking can continue to be provided on the site or provided on an appropriate alternative site. The Central Business Zone represents a mixture of economic and physical assets. For resource management purposes, it is important to sustainably manage these physical resources whilst recognising the parallel need to manage the inherent natural resources. The Plan identifies the existing town centre resource located in central Blenheim and zones this “Central Business Zone”. Within this town centre environment certain activities, as determined by the effects which they create, are permitted, for example, commercial activities. Performance standards are considered to be important to ensure the integrated management of the town centre and also to assure convenience and attraction for users. Performance standards therefore include requirements relating to vehicle circulation, parking, loading, access, pedestrian shelter, noise and building height. Other management methods involve certain service delivery initiatives of the Council which seek to improve the amenity and functioning of the Central Business Zone. 11.3.2 Neighbourhood Business Areas This zone includes the commercial areas at Redwoodtown, Springlands, Moran Street, Alana Place, Budge Street and the Hospital Road - Maxwell Road corner shops. A number of smaller individual sites also feature this zoning. 11.3.2.1 Issue The impact of neighbourhood business centres on surrounding areas. Neighbourhood business centres have evolved to provide a decentralised commercial resource as the town’s periphery has been progressively developed. Their effective management requires a different approach from the Central Business Zone. They generally sit within residential areas and provide a concentrated satellite resource in a small identifiable environment with different effects being generated to those of the 11 - 21