Chapter 7
Economy and Employment
Issues / Recommendations / Observations
Sub. No.
Chief Executive’s Response & Recommendation
people with sight loss to fully participate as independent citizens.
into account in designing developments. Accessibility issues within buildings are addressed more fully under the Building Regulations. Recommendation: No change. The Draft Plan includes a suite of objectives to achieve its growth targets, including the identification of Strategic Employment Sites and a policy approach identifying seven new Strategic Employment Locations to provide a greater distribution of employment lands throughout the city. Recommendation: No change. Objective 7.13 of the Draft Plan seeks to concentrate general office accommodation in the city centre and a number of highly accessible district centres. The Strategic Employment Areas are located in highly accessible locations in the City close to existing neighbourhoods or in new Urban Town locations where active travel, public transport is planned via BusConnects routes or future rail services. A new City Gateway Framework Plan is planned around the Kinsale Road, which will include the Strategic Employment Site at the South Link. This will address accessibility and land-use parameters for these strategic employment lands. Recommendation: See OPR submission 426 in Par t 2, Section 1 in relation to the “Airport City Gateway” amendments. Paragraph 7.22 relates to “Support Indigenous Enterprise and Entrepreneurship”. Some additional text will be included to strengthen emphasis on entrepreneurship.
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The submission states that Objective 7.10 does not prevent general offices being developed on Strategic Employment locations and inaccessible areas.
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Requests the following changes to Chapter 7 to the Draft Plan text:
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