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Consultation has concluded
Help shape our draft Smart Technology Development Control Guidelines
Together, we’ll explore the opportunities for smarter technologies to enhance development and smart city investment, drive innovation and improve community and sustainability outcomes in Lake Macquarie, in line with the Lake Macquarie Smart City, Smart Council Digital Economy Strategy.
Over the coming months, Council is partnering with industry professionals and the community to create development control guidelines to support sustainable development. Our focus is now on smart technology.
These new guidelines will assist the development industry and community to navigate development controls and streamline information needed to complete sustainable developments in Lake Macquarie. Throughout the development of these new guidelines, Council will work together with industry and community to ensure we find the best and most practical solutions.
The aspects of smart and emerging technology we would like to focus on include:
Wireless networks
Big data
Smart parking
Smart street lighting
Smart environmental and utility monitoring
Smart transport
Smart homes
Thank you those who attended the community workshops and provided feedback, suggestions and ideas to Council, the next step is to combine the comments from the workshop with our online submissions and begin the development of guidelines. We'll provide a draft guideline for comment in late June/early July.
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Help shape our draft Smart Technology Development Control Guidelines
Together, we’ll explore the opportunities for smarter technologies to enhance development and smart city investment, drive innovation and improve community and sustainability outcomes in Lake Macquarie, in line with the Lake Macquarie Smart City, Smart Council Digital Economy Strategy.
Over the coming months, Council is partnering with industry professionals and the community to create development control guidelines to support sustainable development. Our focus is now on smart technology.
These new guidelines will assist the development industry and community to navigate development controls and streamline information needed to complete sustainable developments in Lake Macquarie. Throughout the development of these new guidelines, Council will work together with industry and community to ensure we find the best and most practical solutions.
The aspects of smart and emerging technology we would like to focus on include:
Wireless networks
Big data
Smart parking
Smart street lighting
Smart environmental and utility monitoring
Smart transport
Smart homes
Thank you those who attended the community workshops and provided feedback, suggestions and ideas to Council, the next step is to combine the comments from the workshop with our online submissions and begin the development of guidelines. We'll provide a draft guideline for comment in late June/early July.
Sign up with Shape Lake Mac to stay up-to-date with the latest information.
Lake
Macquarie’s new Development Control Guidelines for smart technology will have to balance
many issues - technology, timing, cost, responsibilities, competing priorities
and regulation.
We
would welcome your views and feedback on these issues, and any others, which
you identify as important.
What’s important for Lake Macquarie?
Given
constraints of budget and time, it is critical for Lake Macquarie to identify
the highest value smart city technologies and services.
This
means highest value for our
community, for our residents, businesses and visitors. Smart technology projects in other cities may
not be as relevant or valuable for Lake Macquarie.
We are
seeking your views on what smart technologies and services are the highest
priority for Lake Macquarie.
Lake
Macquarie’s new DCP guidelines for emerging technology will have to balance
many issues - technology, timing, cost, responsibilities, competing priorities
and regulation.
We
would welcome your views and feedback on these issues, and any others, which
you identify as important.
How do we phase?
Even
with a small number of smart technology priorities, there is always the question
of phasing. Which technology comes
first, and what follows?
When
future proofing cities, it is common to first establish the foundation, being
the smart city networks and information platforms, and then ‘plugging in’ new
sensors and services as required.
But
even within this broad principle, there is room for variation and flexibility
given the abundance of network and sensor options.
We are
seeking your views of how to best phase smart technology, to reduce duplication
and cost, and increase effectiveness and overall value.
Lake
Macquarie’s new DCP guidelines for emerging technology will have to balance
many issues - technology, timing, cost, responsibilities, competing priorities
and regulation.
We
would welcome your views and feedback on these issues, and any others, which
you identify as important.
What technology goes where?
Smart
technology requirements and value will differ widely, depending on the type and
location of development across Lake Macquarie.
Smart
parking and free public Wi-Fi might make sense for a new shopping precinct, but
have no real benefit in a new low-density suburb.
Greenfield
vs. infill, commercial vs. residential vs. industrial, tourist hot spot vs.
local community space – the digital dimension must be tailored to fit the space
and the place.
We are
seeking your views on how the Development Control Guidelines for smart technology should
account for different types of development in different locations across Lake
Macquarie.
Development controls - Smart technology is currently at this stage
This consultation has closed. Thank you for your contributions.
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