BCC CityPlan and Exclusionary Zoning Reducing Housing Supply

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How Did Exclusionary Zoning Come To Cover Most Of Brisbane's Residential Land?
https://westender.com.au/part-three-how-did-exclusionary-zoning-come-to-cover-most-of-brisbanes-residential-land/

The city's first formal planning instrument was gazetted in 1965 and contained a single residential zone, where houses and duplexes were allowed and all other dwellings, including townhouses and apartments, were allowed with local government consent.

The 1971 plan introduced three residential zones (A, B and C), with the Residential C zone allowing mixed use (commercial and residential) development provided the residential component was at least 50% of the gross floor area.

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The 1987 planning scheme removed the Residential C zone and divided the Residential B zone into several sub-zones. The Residential B zone in the Brisbane Town Plan 1987 was the only zone where apartment buildings were allowed, and it applied to much of Brisbane's inner city. Height limits varied depending on location and minimum lot sizes.

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Why city policy to 'protect the Brisbane backyard' is failing
https://theconversation.com/why-city-policy-to-protect-the-brisbane-backyard-is-failing-150173

Those policies to 'protect the backyard' ... appear to encourage development of single family homes in backyards by subdivision.

We found 52% of redevelopments resulted from subdivision, compared with 30% from land assembly and 18% for all other reconfigurations. In the past decade, the seven inner-city suburbs we studied lost over 21,000 square metres of open space, usually backyards, to be replaced with more houses.

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Would be really interesting to see if we can locate some of these old plans.