THE CITY OF ADELAIDE PLANNING COMMISSION

The City of Adelaide Development Control Act 1976 and the City of Adelaide Plan 1976–81 came into force on 1 March 1977. The agreement between the ACC and the State for the governance of the City under the Act contained a number of elements. The ACC would manage the City as a series of four Districts (Core, Inner Frame, Outer frame and Residential) containing 23 Precincts, as Figure 30 shows. These were as recommended by George Clarke and USC in the City of Adelaide Planning Study 1974. For each Precinct there was a ‘Desired Future Character Statement’, which was an innovative qualitative statutory control. From 1977 until 1982 there were a number of key individuals from the State and the ACC who where influential in the planning of the City, as Table 3 shows.

The ACC and the State were committed to a process of review and the adoption of a new City Plan on a five-yearly cycle with an integration of strategic and statutory approaches. This would provide certainty for the community during the first three years of the operation of the City Plan. But after a review in years four and five, with public involvement, a new City Plan would be adopted.