Mr. Brian Moran:

It is about avoiding over-prescription in the SDZ plan and maybe looking back - perhaps with a workshop - at the history, which would be useful to see what has and has not worked. It is about avoiding a level of over-prescription, albeit not on big issues like schools and parks and so on, which have to be done and have to be funded. I very much welcome the idea that with a UDZ, there has to be a funding plan. One of the problems with SDZs to date is there have been no funding plans. It is just silent on it and is silent on ownership. It is silent on the fact that one of the key parts might be on somebody else's land and there is nothing we can do about that. One cannot bury one's head in the sand when these plans are being written. One must look at these issues upfront to move SDZs forward. It is just about avoiding a level of prescription that then gets changed, either through climate changes legislation elsewhere or through building codes that change, so all of a sudden the plan is out of date by the time it is adopted and we try to implement it.