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YARRA RIVER PROTECTION (WILIP-GIN BIRRARUNG MURRON) ACT 2017 (NO. 49 OF 2017) - SECT 20

Contents of Yarra Strategic Plan

    (1)     A Yarra Strategic Plan must—

        (a)     give effect to the vision expressed in the long-term community vision document; and

        (b)     include a plan for the Yarra Strategic Plan area (a land use framework plan ) that—

              (i)     creates the spatial structure for the future use and development of that area; and

              (ii)     identifies areas for protection within that area.

    (2)     In addition, a Yarra Strategic Plan must—

        (a)     contain the long-term community vision document developed for Yarra River land under section 17; and

        (b)     set out the broad objectives of a Yarra Strategic Plan and the values that it seeks to recognise, protect and promote, including environmental values, landscape values, cultural heritage values and amenity values; and

        (c)     contain performance objectives for waterway health, river parklands amenity, landscape amenity and environmental, cultural and heritage values to be achieved over a specified period in relation to Yarra River land; and

        (d)     identify regional infrastructure networks; and

        (e)     identify projects for the protection and improvement of Yarra River land that should be carried out at the earliest opportunity; and

        (f)     set out a narrative description of the river corridor; and

        (g)     set out a decision-making framework against which individual projects and proposals may be assessed or evaluated; and

        (h)     state the parts of a Yarra Strategic Plan that are intended to be binding on responsible public entities and the parts that are in the nature of recommendations to which responsible public entities are only required to have regard; and

              (i)     cover any other matter relating to waterway health, river parklands amenity, landscape amenity or environmental, cultural or heritage values that the Minister, by written direction given to the lead agency, directs is to be dealt with by a Yarra Strategic Plan.



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