Download pdf - Regeneration Framework Presentation 13 June 2014

The Greater

Tygerberg Partnership

o 12directors Representingo Businesso Academic Institutionso City of Cape Towno W Cape Provincial

Government

o Supported by Mayors Urban Regeneration Programme

Our Focus Area:

The Voortrekker Road Corridor

Integration Zone Strategic Investment Plan

Regeneration Facilitation Clean & SafeTackling Problem

Buildings

SEVEN TRANSITIONS

11680 – 1860

Birth

Safe Wagon Route over Cape Flats sand & vleis to Outspan (Hardekraaltjie)

2 1860 – 1940

Urbanisation

• 1849 hard road Reaches Hardekraaltjie Outspan

• 1860 Railway line to Maitland, Goodwood, Parow and Bellville

• High Street development of town centres as cars become important

• Bellville now nexus of Regional Rail System

3 1940 - 1980

Satellite towns on Rail / Bus Corridor

City Integration

As City Grows

• Towns become satellites of Greater Cape Town

• Civic Pride & Competition • Industrialisation creates Commuter

Movement Corridor and Industrial / commercial belt on VoortrekkerRoad

• Bellville becomes important national rail nexus

Commuter Suburbs on Rail / Bus / taxi Corridor

4 1980 - 2015

Metro Sprawl

• Freeway becomes dominant mover for high income commuters and freight

• Development leapfrogs the N1 to capture high income markets and car based shopping

• Voortrekker Road Enters Relative Decline as rail / bus services deteriorate

• Bellville and other towns decline, continue to serve Cape Flats communities

POST MODERN HYPER MOBILE REGIONAL CORRIDOR

INTEGRATED COMMUTER CITY CORRIDOR

CAPE FLATS

THE GREAT DISCONNECTION

5 2015 – 2025

Metro Compaction

•My Citi Integrated Rapid Transit

•New PRASA Rail Fleet

•New Bellville Station

Corridor Transition Period World Transition Transport Driver Urban Response

1.Birth

1680 –1840

Regional Wagon Route Outspan at Hardekraaltjie

2. Urbanisation

1860 -1940

Age of Steel, Electricity & Heavy Engineering

Hard Road & Railway Line

Country Villages & High Streets

3. CityIntegration

1940 –1980

Age of Oil, Automobiles & Mass Production

Commuter Rail / Bus Corridor Industrialisation

Satellite Towns & Corridor Emergence

4. Metro Sprawl 1980 –2020

Age of Information & Telecommunications

N1 Regional Motor Corridor, Mini Bus Taxi

Corridor Decline

5. MetroCompaction

2020 –2030

Era of Turbulence Bus Rapid Transit, New Trains, Smart Transport Systems

Corridor Regeneration

6. Africanisation 2030 -2040

Start of Age of Biotechnology and Renewable Energy?

Fast Rail, Smart Vehicles Off Grid Satellite Towns

7. Regionalism 2040 + Midpoint of Age of Biotechand Renewable Energy?

Walking & Cycling Urban Villages

Movement restrictions, but also opportunities to restructure fragmented Cape Town

• Future Tygere

Integration Zone

• Network optimisation

public investments

• Growth generating nodes

development corridors.

• Aim is to attract private investment

processstrategic sustainable

partnerships

2040 Vision regenerated inter-connected

• link Cape Town’s two metropolitan nodes

innovation and development powerhouse

“one of the world’s greatest cities in which to live and learn, work, invest and discover – a place of possibility”

Six Regeneration imperatives

Step Path 2014 – 2040

Urban Acupunture

LAUNCHING THE INNOVATION HELIX

TRIGGERING THE NEW METRO NODE

LAYING BUILDING BLOCKS FOR TOD ON THE CORRIDOR




Bellville Central , Western Cape

Bridge City, KZN



Bellville – Cape Town Int Airport “Aerotropolis” & Belcon Freight Facility


LAYING BUILDING BLOCKS FOR TOD ON THE CORRIDOR

Overlay Zone :

Possible Mixed Use Development Vehicle

Public Land Transfer Agreement

Tyger Design Laboratory

Public Land Agreement

Tyger Design Lab

Infrastructure Lobbying

Flexible Planning

Project Partnerships

Institutional Partnerships

Innovation Eco System

Development Vehicle

FinanceNetwork

Building Blocks for Regeneration: