The amendment proposes to implement the recommendations of the Alpine Planning Scheme Review 2023 by introducing new or revised local content into the Municipal Planning Strategy, Planning Policy Framework, and schedules to zones, overlays, particular provisions, general provisions, and operational provisions in the Alpine Planning Scheme.
Amendment C65alpi proposes to make the following changes to the Alpine Planning Scheme:
- Implements the land use and development directions of Council’s adopted strategies and documents.
- Clarifies and improves the style, format, language, or grammatical form of content in accordance with the requirements of the Ministerial Direction: The Form and Content of Planning Schemes and principles set out in A Practitioner’s Guide to Victoria’s Planning Schemes, June 2024 where the intended effect of that clause or any other clause is not changed.
- Updates clause references, department names, legislation names, document references, terminology and statistical data.
- Deletes or adjusts content that conflicts with state planning policy of the Victoria Planning Provisions.
- Removes repetitive content.
- Removes or updates outdated content.
- Rezones the northern part of the properties at 27, 33, and 35 King Street, Myrtleford from General Residential Zone (Schedule 1) to Farming Zone so that each land parcel is no longer in two zones.
- Removes Development Plan Overlay (Schedule 1) from the area around Tempo Court, Bright, as the schedule contains no content.
The amendment also proposes to introduce an Environmentally Sustainable Design (ESD) policy into the Alpine Planning Scheme to ensure that development in Alpine Shire achieves a standard of environmental sustainability, in line with other councils that use an equivalent local policy.