The importance of Land Use Management ~ Short Article * 4

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Authored by @Miss Hugo

LAND
The one resource we will always

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Land is one of the most important resources and is necessary for space
and is an important factor for all human activities. Land needs to be protected and used efficiently. Land use management helps governments to manage the available land resources through laws and legislation and regulations. Humans have been making use of the land for centuries, ranging from agriculture, housing needs, infrastructure, recreational purposes or economic benefits. The activities may have displayed different characteristics throughout the years, but the land still needed to be divided and managed amongst all the activities to allow enough space for everything.

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Source: https://comptroller.tn.gov/office-functions/pa/gisredistricting/land-use-data.html

Land use management originated in town planning activities due to the impact of the industrial revolution in urban areas. The impact included overcrowding, inadequate housing and services, pollution and unsafe living conditions. The concept was created to help control and regulate future urban spaces and to ensure that all activities are organised in a functional and safe manner. Planners and developers saw the problems of the expanding cities and created ways to control or lessen the impact.

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An example of a land use map. These days planners use GIS, but I personally enjoy hand-drawn maps more.
Source: https://www.t2-eng.com/land-planning/

The main objectives of land use management are to optimize the production of goods and promote economic growth, protect the properties' potential future outputs, and avoid the degradation of land. Land use management refers to the available systems that regulate the use of all available land, vacant or occupied. It indicates the manner by which the government controls the land of the county, to ensure that the right development is done in the right area, at the right time and when it is needed.

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Everything needs to be planned for and zoned to ensure that all the necessary activities have a dedicated space.
Source: https://www.cbf.org/about-the-bay/land-use-and-pollution-across-the-bay-watershed.html

The land use management system includes: how the land is accessed and acquired, how the type of land use is regulated, the type of development allowed on the land, and in what manner the land is traded. The dimensions deal with the processes of land development, type of land use and other activities that takes place on the land.

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Different activities make up a town/ city and we need to zone these areas to ensure everything has space and is accessible.
Source: https://slideplayer.com/slide/5843524/

Planners make use of management to ensure that all development in the city is structured and that it takes place in an organized way. The goal is to create a sustainable, safe environment that is also functional. Land resources are responsible for food production, housing and economic growth. The government needs to manage land resources in a sustainable manner, without interfering with important ecosystem services.

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Plans on different scales need to be integrated and speak to one another to ensure that a city or country functions as one and not as separate parts.
Source: https://paijat-hame.fi/en/tietoa-kaavoituksesta-en/

Without land use management, zoning of land won’t take place and development will be unorganized and scattered. Not all available land resources will be used efficiently. If there is no guideline from the national government all municipalities will follow completely different plans for land use and development and there will be no integration between municipalities or cities.

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I have a theory that the way we do City planning and land management is becoming fast out of date.

All over the world, but let's use home as an example. South Africa.

The amount of logistics involved to bring you a peanut butter and jam sandwich is staggering. Each individual item is grown separately, processed separately, the packaging manufactured separately, then all transported to and fro during this process, eventually finding its way into a warehouse, more transport to distribute from manufacturers to agents to distribution centers to stores. Then you use your own petrol to drive and fetch the items.

That's not the only factor. The spaces between where people live and where they work add to it all. The fact is that in this modern world we have plenty of technology to make buildings low impact on the environment, self-sufficient and energy efficient, and yet there is no structure to move us in that direction.

If I were a municipality, a government, I would introduce the phase out of certain building practices and introduce some simple building standards that aids in the bigger picture over time. When an old building or area needs to be upgraded, new standards must apply.

I work in the HVAC trade so this would work the same as the phase-out plans set out by the Montreal Protocol - which is one of the (only) best things ever to come out of the United Nations.

Of course. I am also grounded in reality. My above proposals is impossible without the adoption by large amounts of people and that brings me closer to another topic I have meant to be talking about - decentralization of decision making... or if that is even viable considering the misinformation and uneducated in our society...

Wow... I need to write about this...

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Ooo I wish we can get you part of our meeting, but protocol won't allow it. You see the issue is SA is still very much behind 😅. We have one legislation that is guideing our land management (SPLUMA) and everything else needs to align to it .... It was put in place in 2013... We haven't even had it for 10 years... A part form the it focuses more on "fixing" issues left by the previous government (before 1994). Don't get me wrong SPLUMA is amazing, but most of our acts and legislation are out dated and not relevant anymore...

We lack capital and can't bring in some of that lovely technology... We also lack skill, high % of our population is still uneducated and under skilled. Go check out Eco industrial parks, I'm planning on writing something on that, SA has a few, but they are still not include withou our municipal regulations.

And then we get to another point... Mixed land use. You mentioned the space between work and where we live... I'm a bit against mixed land use, but in the sense that I feel highrise buildings with shops and work space below and housing on top is not ideal (at least not for our country). BUT mixed land use neighborhoods can definitely benefit everyone. This however brings us back to SPLUMA .... Our government is still so much focused on "fixing"... Planners have wonderful ideas, I work with a ton of people wanting to change this, but we are useally put down, because we don't have the final say. My students are all annoyed with this, why study with the goal of changing what we have, when we don't get a say?

This is why it is so important to go to development meetings in our cities. Go tell then you don't think it's a great idea, or tell them yes I support this! I attended a private governmental meeting during this week, and each and every planner and other departments want the same thing... And you know what, we got what we wanted, because everyone said no to what was proposed.

Planning in SA is very much influenced by Europ and Amarica, and unfortunately we are not in the same place 😅. While SA planners have realised this, our government is still a few steps behind.... But eventually we will get there... Mangaung hase a new HOD and he's a go getter, we have a new head planner and she makes sure things are done correctly. So all we can do is play our part, break het system, and build a new one.

I think this comment is all over the place 🤣, apologies.

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Wait I want to add something 😂. Go have a look at a few economic theories: central place and industrial location and i forgot the other (I'll probably write something about this as well). These are linked to your peanut butter and jam sandwich and living away from everything.... The theories focus on centralising... Least cost location for industries during manufacuring (industrial locatin), least cost during shipping (central place, positive for consumer) and one that focuses on cities within cities (you have nodes/ neighborhoods that have everything... School, offices, shops, hospital, parks, and housing... Issue is people have started to forget about these theories since they are linked to economy.... And this is an issue we see in SA, planners forget about a lot of helpful theories, since we are so focused on fixing thigs, that we can't move forward.

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