Urban Development Act 2020.

The purpose of this Act is to facilitate urban development that contributes to sustainable, inclusive, and thriving communities. It provides a mechanism to streamline and consolidate processes for selected urban development projects initiated, facilitated, or undertaken by Kāinga Ora–Homes and Communities (referred to in this Act as Kāinga Ora); it provides powers for the acquisition, development, and disposal of land and provides additional powers, rights, and duties for the purpose of Kāinga Ora performing its urban development functions.
Part 1 contains preliminary provisions; these include principles for specified development projects and restrictions on developing certain lands. This latter refers to protected land and distinguishes between land protected from use of certain powers without agreement and land absolutely protected from acquisition and development, these are reserves, national parks, Māori customary land and Māori reservation, coastal areas.
Part 2 provides for how an urban development project is established as a specified development project and once the project is established, the project’s development plan to be prepared and approved. Most of the functions, powers, rights, and duties set out in Parts 3 and 4 are available to Kāinga Ora only after a project’s development plan becomes operative. Broadly, they relate to resource consenting and designations under the Resource Management Act 1991 (see subpart 2 of Part 3); the use and reconfiguration of reserves, and the use of land that is subject to conservation interests (see subpart 3 of Part 3); certain infrastructure (roads, water supply, wastewater, and drainage) and the changing of related bylaws (see subpart 4 of Part 3); rating and other funding powers (see Part 4).
Parts 5 and 6 apply to urban development initiated, facilitated, or undertaken by Kāinga Ora (including specified development projects) The functions, powers, rights, and duties set out in those Parts broadly relate to the acquisition of land (including by compulsion) (see Part 5); powers to enter land and buildings (see subpart 1 of Part 6); the governance of projects (see subpart 2 of Part 6); the delegation of functions and powers of Kāinga Ora (see subpart 3 of Part 6).