New Zealand Legislation: Bills
Bills are proposed Acts
(1) An affordable housing policy must state the criteria that the territorial authority uses to determine the developments to which it applies the policy determine which developments the policy applies to.
(2) The criteria that the authority must consider for inclusion in its affordable housing policy areinclude—
(a) the proposed location of the development:
(b) the kind of development proposed, whether commercial, industrial, or residential, or a sub-group of commercial or industrial:
(c) the number of commercial, industrial, or residential sites proposed for the development:
(d) the proposed residential floor area per dwelling in the development:
(e) the proposed floor area of a commercial or industrial building in the development:
(f) the potential of the development to generate a need for affordable housing:
(g) the desirability of the community having a variety of housing sizes, tenures, and costs.
(3) A policy may state a criterion that—
(a) is not listed in subsection (2):
(b) is reasonable in the circumstances of the territorial authority.
(4) The policy must also state whether any kind of development is excluded from the policy.
(5) The policy must also state how the policy applies to redevelopments.
(6) The policy must state enough details about each criterion, and the matters referred to in subsections (4) and (5), to give a person doing a development a reasonable idea of whether or not the policy applies to the development.