New land scheme addresses space-related problems
JOHANNESBURG – The City of Johannesburg's newly approved land use scheme is set to correct the problems that existed for 21 years in the old land use scheme.
The City of Johannesburg stated that a new land use scheme has been drawn up by a team of five highly experienced town planners.
According to the City, Johannesburg’s land use scheme is already being benchmarked by smaller municipalities in Gauteng, a huge endorsement for the group.
The document is said to have been accepted on 1 February 2019 and was approved by Council at the end of December last year.
Before February this year, residents from various places across the city needed to use different land use schemes. Gina Zanti, deputy director in Land Use Management, a sub-directorate of the Department of Development Planning said, “The new land use scheme advocates for equality, social justice and transformation.”
The new scheme promotes working from home and extending ones property to create a source of income. It also creates an opportunity for economic expansion and social redress.
“The new land use scheme spells out what residents are permitted to do or not do on their properties and related time frames and how high they can build and what their zoning rights are. Its precursor entrenched and enforced spatial segregation, hence, it was repealed.”
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