36Objectives of the City Centre zone

36 Objectives of the City Centre zone

36 Objectives of the City Centre zone

The objectives of the City Centre zone are—

(a) to encourage Central Sydney’s role and growth as one of the Asia-Pacific region’s principal centres for finance, commerce, retailing, tourism, cultural activities, entertainment and government, and

(b) to permit a diversity of uses which reinforce the multi-use character of Central Sydney, and

(c) to facilitate the development of buildings and works that are of a scale and character consistent with achieving the other objectives of this zone, and

(d) to provide for increased residential development with appropriate amenity and to ensure the maintenance of a range of housing choices, and

(e) to enhance the amenity of parks and community places by protecting sun access, and

(f) to ensure wind levels are consistent with pedestrian comfort and the amenity of the public domain, and

(g) to ensure satisfactory sky exposure, levels of daylight and ventilation to the public areas of Sydney, including the parks, places, streets and lanes, and

(h) to recognise and enhance the character of Special Areas, and

(i) to facilitate the conservation of items and areas of heritage significance, and

(j) to protect the fine-grained urban fabric of Central Sydney, especially the existing network of streets and lanes, and to provide for high quality development that contributes to the existing urban form, and

(k) to extend retail uses on frontages to retail streets, and

(l) to provide active frontages to streets.