Proposed Coastal Sensitivity Area (Open Coast)

Waikato District Council - Proposed District Plan (Stage 2 Natural Hazards), Notified 27 July 2020.
This layer is a spatial representation of an overlay in the Proposed District Plan and indicates where land use will be regulated by various associated rules. It will be used as a guide in the regulatory process of implementing the Proposed District Plan and managing land use, subdivision, the environment and economy. This dataset is subject to changes undertaken through the Resource Management act. Note individual Proposed Plan rules can have different statuses, some may have current legal effect and others will not until the Proposed Plan becomes operative. This data is provided for use in the District Plan only.

Coastal Sensitivity Area (Open Coast) identifies land in rural areas along the open coastline and within the estuaries, which includes areas of the coastal margin that could potentially be impacted by coastal flooding and/or coastal erosion, assuming sea level rise of 1.0 m to 2120. This belongs to the series of data relating to Natural Hazards which includes the following groups - coastal erosion, coastal inundation, inland flooding, and land subsidence. This layer belongs to both the coastal erosion group and the coastal inundation group. Use in conjunction with High Risk Coastal Hazard (Erosion) Area, Coastal Sensitivity (Erosion) Area, High Risk Coastal Hazard (Inundation) Area, and Coastal Sensitivity (Inundation) Area.