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#### 2 Land use zones [compulsory]
2.1 Land use zones \[compulsory\]
> The land use zones under this Plan are as follows—
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> > Rural Zones
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> > RU1 Primary Production
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> > RU2 Rural Landscape
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> > RU3 Forestry
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> > RU4 Primary Production Small Lots
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> > RU5 Village
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> > RU6 Transition
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> > Residential Zones
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> > R1 General Residential
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> > R2 Low Density Residential
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> > R3 Medium Density Residential
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> > R4 High Density Residential
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> > R5 Large Lot Residential
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> > Employment Zones
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> > E1 Local Centre
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> > E2 Commercial Centre
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> > E3 Productivity Support
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> > E4 General Industrial
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> > E5 Heavy Industrial
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> > Mixed Use Zones
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> > MU1 Mixed Use
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> > Special Purpose Zones
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> > SP1 Special Activities
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> > SP2 Infrastructure
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> > SP3 Tourist
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> > SP4 Enterprise
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> > SP5 Metropolitan Centre
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> > Recreation Zones
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> > RE1 Public Recreation
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> > RE2 Private Recreation
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> > Conservation Zones
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> > C1 National Parks and Nature Reserves
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> > C2 Environmental Conservation
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> > C3 Environmental Management
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> > C4 Environmental Living
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> > Waterway Zones
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> > W1 Natural Waterways
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> > W2 Recreational Waterways
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> > W3 Working Waterways
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> > W4 Working Waterfront
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> Direction 1.
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> Additional zones or subzones are not to be prescribed.
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> Direction 2.
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> If the land to which the Plan applies does not include any of the above zones, the reference to the zone in this clause and the provisions relating to it in the Land Use Table in clause 2.3 may, but need not, be included.
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> **cl 2.1 (previously cl 10):** Renumbered 2007 (600), Sch 2 \[182\]. Am 2007 (600), Sch 2 \[182\]; 2010 (161), Sch 2 \[8\]; 2011 (82), Sch 1 \[1\]; 2011 (102), Sch 2 \[2\]; 2021 (650), Sch 1\[1\]–\[5\], Sch 3\[1\]; 2022 (726), Sch 1\[1\].