14.2 - Strategic Approach
The overall zoning strategy is based on the following principles:
- To ensure that land-use zoning across the city spatially facilitates the aims of the core strategy and the objective to develop a compact, connected, low carbon, and climatically resilient city.
- To ensure that land is appropriately zoned in order to accommodate the expected growth needs of Dublin City within the lifetime of the plan and to ensure the protection of community and social infrastructure, and critical ecosystems services, through the application of appropriate land-use zoning designations in order to provide adequate facilities and amenities to meet the growing needs of the city.
- To provide for balanced and sustainable development by promoting, in particular, a mixed-use pattern of development with a move away from more traditional forms of single mono-use zoning.
- To ensure that the most efficient use is being made of the city’s land in line with the principles of the 15-minute city, and that the redevelopment of under-utilised and brownfield land is promoted in order to consolidate and add vitality to existing centres.
- To promote the intensification of development adjacent and close to public transport nodes and corridors in order to minimise trip generation and distribution and to promote sustainable compact urban form.
To ensure that the city’s zoned enterprise and employment lands are integrated with key supporting infrastructure to provide for more intensive forms of employment.