|
Aspect |
ICM Act Section/s |
Brief Description of
Roles and Responsibilities |
Provincial Government's Role |
|
Designation of coastal access land |
18, 19, 20 |
- Ensuring that the public has equitable access to coastal public
property by designating coastal access land;
- Make a by-law that designates strips of land to provide access to
CPP along the coast; and
- Withdraw inappropriate coastal access land and follow an
environmentally sensitive and socially responsible process in
designating coastal access land.
|
Advisory – assisting LMs with determination as to
inappropriate/appropriate coastal access. |
|
Coastal management line demarcation on zoning maps |
25 |
- Participation in coastal management line determinations; and
- Delineating coastal management lines in municipal zoning schemes
maps
|
Provincial government is the lead agency for the establishment of coastal
management lines |
|
Impose fees within coastal public property |
13(3) |
Obtain the approval of the Minister before charging any fee for access to
coastal public property |
Advisory |
|
Determining and adjusting coastal boundaries of coastal access land |
29 |
Ensure specified considerations are taken into account when determining or
adjusting a coastal boundary of coastal access land. |
Advisory – assist with appropriate considerations for adjusting
boundaries. |
|
Marking coastal boundaries on zoning maps |
31 |
Delineate coastal boundaries determined or adjusted in terms of S26 on
zoning scheme maps. |
N/A |
|
Estuarine Management Plans |
34 |
If identified in terms of S33(3)(e) as the responsible party for the
development of Estuarine Management Plans - to undertake these in
accordance with the National Estuarine Management Protocol. |
Advisory – assist municipalities with Estuarine Management Plans. |
|
Municipal Coastal Management Programmes |
48,49,55 |
Prepare and adopt a municipal coastal management programme for managing
the coastal zone or specific parts of the coastal zone in the
municipality. |
Guidance on the requirements of the Municipal CMP and ensuring alignment
with the PCMP. |
|
Consistency and alignment between Municipal Coastal Management Programmes
and other statutory plans |
51,52 |
- Ensure that any plan, policy or programme adopted by an organ of
state that may affect coastal management is consistent and aligned with
municipal coastal management programmes which in turn is aligned with
provincial coastal management programmes and the national coastal
management programme; and
- Ensure that IDPs (including its spatial development framework) are
consistent with other statutory plans [See S52 (1) (a-f)] adopted by
either a national or a provincial organ of state.
|
Advisory – Ensure that Municipal CMP aligns with the PCMP and other
related documents. |
|
Consultation and public participation |
53 |
Adequate consultation and public participation should precede the
exercising of a power by a municipality. |
N/A |
|
Implementation of land use legislation in coastal protection zone |
62 |
In implementing any legislation that regulates the planning or development
of land, in a manner that conforms to the principles of co-operative
governance contained in Chapter 3 of the Constitution, apply that
legislation in relation to land in the coastal protection zone in a way
that gives effect to the purposes for which the protection zone is
established as set out in section 17. |
Advisory |