JOHANNESBURG has drawn up a range of important strategies to help it meet its vision of being a world-class African city. These are completed after intensive consultation with the public and other stakeholders.

The pivotal plan is the City's Growth and Development Strategy, which sets out the vision and mission of Johannesburg's long-term development strategies. This is supported by the City's Integrated Development Plan, which looks at the way forward over a five-year period. The IDP is reviewed and revised every year.

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Joburg 2040 GDS

We've developed a growth and development strategy to take us into 2040. It is a strategy that not only provides a vision of the future, but importantly, defines clear outcomes against which to measure progress.
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Other key plans and City documents:
(Listed alphabetically within their sectors)

2011 Integrated Town Planning Scheme

• Consolidated Johannesburg Town Planning Scheme 2011

2010 Draft Integrated Town Planning Scheme

• Integrated Town Planning Scheme 2010

Annual reports

• End of Term Report 2006-2011
• Annual reports
• The Executive Mayor's Mid-term report 2008
• Final-term report 2006
• Annual Performance Report 2003/04 (Issued March 2005)
• The Executive Mayor's Mid-term report (September 2003)

Budgets

• Budget (annual and medium-term)

Business

• Informal Trading Policy [PDF, 49kb]

Commune Policy

• Commune Policy [PDF, 884kb]
• Annexure B: Typical Consent Application Form [PDF, 296kb]

Development

• Integrated Transport Plan (ITP) – 2003/2008
• Johannesburg Development Agency: Progress in the City 2004
  [Acrobat format: 2.2Mb]
• Soweto Retail Strategy
• City Development Plan (2001)
• Development Planning, Transportation and Environment - Approved policies
• Land Release Policy [Adobe Acrobat format]
• Land Release for Outdoor Advertising Policy [Adobe Acrobat format]
• Johannesburg's Tourism Strategy

Environment

• Integrated Waste Management Policy [PDF, 439kb]
• Integrated Waste Management Plan [PDF, 3Mb]
• Air Quality reports
• State of the Environment Report (April 2003)
• The Johannesburg Call ( Joint statement by local government leaders at the World Summit)

Finance

• Constitutional Court ruling on landlord-tenant obligations to city councils (October 2004)
• Debtor's Book SPV announcement [Acrobat format: 19Kb]
• Retirement fund transformation
  • Transformation of Pension Funds in the City
  • Information Document Concerning The Proposal By The City Of Johannesburg And Its Utilities, Agencies And Corporatised Entities ("UAC's") On The Transformation Of Retirement Funding Arrangements For Employees.

Other

• Growth and Development Strategy 2006
• Integrated Development Plan
• Service Delivery and Budget Implementation Plan [PDF, 612kb]
• The Growth Management Strategy
• Overview of Joburg 2008 [Acrobat format: 2,6Mb]
• Public Notices
• Tariffs 2007/8 [Acrobat format: 71kb]
• 2007 Customer Satisfaction Survey
• First impression: Promotion of Access to Information Act Manual

Rates policy

• 2011/2012 [Acrobat format: 89kb]
• 2008 [Acrobat format: 160kb]
• The City has proposed revisions to the rates policy [168kb] and by-laws [ 889kb]

Social development

• Human Development Strategy 2005: Joburg's commitment to the poor [Acrobat format: 1Mb]
• Youth Development Strategy [Acrobat format: 158kb]
• Executive Mayor's speech launchinig Municipal Services Subsidies
• Land for public places of worship [Adobe Acrobat format]
• Public Art Policy [Acrobat format: 76kb]
• City HIV/Aids Policy
  
  • Workplace, wellness, HIV and AIDS policy [Acrobat format:1Mb]
  • Pledge to the wellness of citizens and employees

Spatial development framework plans

• Spatial Development Framework

Safety Strategy

• City Safety Strategy

Tariffs

• Tariffs for services rendered by the City

Transport plans

• General information on the road-based feeder and distribution services to Gautrain stations
• Framework for Non-Motorised Transport 2009 [Acrobat format: 483kb]
• Integrated Transport Plan (ITP) – 2003/2008