The planning commission are generally quite disinterested in what they call “spot rezoning”, which is a single R20 lot in a sea of other R20 lots increasing to say R60, or one rural lot in a whole rural area becoming R20 to feed your personal financial endeavours. The WAPC (planning commission) has an interest in proper and orderly planning, which means your options are :
- Team up with a collective of adjoining landowners to propose a major area rezoning and structure planning exercise, that makes sense in planning context. i.e.. It is adjoined by other suburbs/areas at higher density, and there is infrastructure able to support an increase in density
- Collect a smaller pocket of landowners surrounding you that are then collectively adjoining higher density or other lad uses (for example 4 remnant landowners on a major road that are adjoining mixed use or commercial dwellings) and rezoning these, as it complements the lad use fabric and competes the “pattern of development.
Spot rezoning is not entertained as never likely to be supported (regardless of what the selling agent tells you about how easy it will be). It needs to be a coordinated approach, driven by either the local government, or from private industry side on behalf of a vast majority of local landowners that is conducive to proper and orderly planning.
