District Plan Hauraki Gulf Islands Section - Operative 1996

A most important part of the resource management process used in the Plan is the identification of appropriate resource management units.

For the Outer and Inner Islands, Strategic Management Areas (SMA’s) have been identified. Strategic management areas can be broadly described as those geographic units which have a commonality (likeness) for reasons related to elements of the physical and natural environment, cultural and historical and settlement patterns, existing development extents, transportation and roading linkages and various combinations of all those factors.

The Strategic Management Areas provide the means by which integrated resource management can be achieved and brings together the resource management process for land units into an integrated and comprehensive planning context. For the Hauraki Gulf overall, the major outcome must be the integration of management of the parts so that a coherent whole structure emerges.