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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF DEVELOPMENT PLAN MEETING

Thursday, February 04, 2016

MOTION NO. 73

MOTION: Councillor L. O'Toole

Motion: Cllr L O’Toole, Cllr G. O’Connell, Cllr P. Gogarty

That this council requests that the CEO includes “Research and Development based enterprise” type industries as a Zoning objective class and creates a new zoning objective R&D, which would facilitate a research campus tied in to an existing educational institution.

 

REPORT:

Schedule 5 of the Draft Plan 2016-2022 sets out Definition of Use Classes & Zoning Matrix Table. ‘Office – Based Industry’ is defined as ‘Office-based activities that are concerned with the output of a specified product or service, including: data processing, software development, information technology, technical and consulting, commercial laboratories/healthcare, research and development, media recording and general media associated uses, publishing, telemarketing’ [emphasis added]. It is noted that under the Draft Plan zoning matrices Office-Based Industry is permitted in principle under REGEN, TC, DC, and EE zoning objectives, and open for consideration in RES, RES-N and LC zoned areas. It is considered that the Office-Based Industry use class provides adequate flexibility to accommodate research and development based enterprise and/or research uses in tandem with educational facilities in the County, subject to assessment with regard to the relevant policies and objectives of the County Development Plan.

Recommendation

It is recommended that this motion is not adopted.