Built-up urban area

Built-up urban area

A plain English explanation of this ACT planning and property term.

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Legal Meaning

Built-up urban area— (a) means an area in any of the following zones identified in the territory plan: (i) residential zone (RZ); (ii) commercial zone (CZ); (iii) community facility zone (CFZ); (iv) industrial zone (IZ); (v) urban open space zone (PRZ1); and (b) includes an area that is a verge of a road, and the road is in or adjacent to a zone mentioned in paragraph (a); but (c) does not include the following areas: (i) a reserve; (ii) an area in the hills, ridges and buffer zone (NUZ3); (iii) a rural lease.

Plain English

Built-up urban area: Land in established urban areas, including residential, commercial, community, industrial and urban open space areas, and associated road verges. It generally does not include reserves, hills and ridges buffer areas, or rural lease areas.