Zoning Dictionary

Letter: A

Active Frontage

The front of buildings with openings onto the space that generate activity and engagement between the building interior and the space outside, particularly entrances. Building frontage where there is an active visual engagement between those on the street and those on the ground floors of buildings.

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Active Travel

Travel and transport by physically active, human- powered modes (e.g. on foot or by bicycle) as opposed to motorised ones.

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Active/Main Entrance

A principal building entrance, not including emergency egress doors, garage doors, service doors, loading doors or doors giving access to storage areas. In the case of a residential use building, a door that is clearly intended and designed to be the principal entrance or one of the principal entrances for use on a permanent basis […]

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Activities Sensitive to Air Discharges

Activities sensitive to reduced air quality. Includes: dwellings; care centres; hospitals; healthcare facilities with an overnight stay facility; educational facilities; marae; community facilities; entertainment facilities; and visitor accommodation.

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Activities Sensitive to Hazardous Facilities and Infrastructure

Activities sensitive to hazardous facilities and infrastructure are: visitor accommodation; care centres; hospitals; healthcare facilities; educational facilities; tertiary education facilities; community facilities; marae; retirement villages; organised sport and recreation; recreation facilities; entertainment facilities; dwellings; and boarding houses.

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Activities Sensitive to Noise

Any dwelling, visitor accommodation, boarding house, marae, papakāinga, integrated residential development, retirement village, supported residential care, care centres, lecture theatres in tertiary education facilities, classrooms in education facilities and healthcare facilities with an overnight stay facility.

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Activity Centre

Activity centres within cities and towns are a focus for enterprises, services, shopping, employment and social interaction. They are where people meet, relax, work and often live. Usually well-served by public transport, they range in size and intensity of use from local neighbourhood strip shopping centres to traditional town centres and major regional centres. An […]

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Adaptability or Adaptive Re-use

The capacity of a building or space to respond to changing social, technological, economic and market conditions and accommodate new or changed uses. The potential to modify the spaces of a home by altering the fabric of the building to cater for the different needs of an individual’s or family’s life cycle (e.g. a study […]

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Adaptive Management Approach

A systematic, iterative process of decision making in the face of uncertainty, with an aim of reducing uncertainty over time through system monitoring and changes to management in response to the results of monitoring.

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Addition

Any construction which increases the size of a building such as a porch, attached garage or carport, or a new room. Construction or alteration that increases the square footage, number of dwelling units, bulk or other extent of a building or structure.

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