Hierarchy’ is sometimes defined in district plans around which they often set various ‘Road policies and rules. However, there is currently no standard approach for formulating a roading hierarchy. NZTA’s One Network Road Classification could potentially be adopted as a standard (methodology) and form part of the National Planning Standards. Utility/Utility service: Our research showed that resource management plans have similar definitions for the terms and service’. Although each term is defined in less ‘utility’ ‘utility than 25 per cent of the plans sampled in our research, if the two terms are considered together they have a moderate frequency of use appearing in over 25 per cent of plans we sampled. Any standardised definition of or service’ would need to be ‘utility’ ‘utility considered alongside or in substitution of definition of due to the ‘infrastructure’ significant similarities between the definitions.
‘Road Hierarchy’ is sometimes defined in district plans around which they often set various policies and rules. However, there is currently no standard approach for formulating a roading hierarchy. NZTA’s One Network Road Classification could potentially be adopted as a standard (methodology) and form part of the National Planning Standards. Utility/Utility service: Our research showed that resource management plans have similar definitions for the terms ‘utility’ and ‘utility service’. Although each term is defined in less than 25 per cent of the plans sampled in our research, if the two terms are considered together they have a moderate frequency of use appearing in over 25 per cent of plans we sampled. Any standardised definition of ‘utility’ or ‘utility service’ would need to be considered alongside or in substitution of definition of ‘infrastructure’ due to the significant similarities between the definitions.
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