Transcript Slide 1

Welcome to the
UDZ
TAX INCENTIVE
CONFERENCE
Day 3
20 Aug 05
UDZ Exhibition & Conference
18 – 20 August 2005
Presentation by Li Pernegger
Programme Manager for Area Regeneration
City of Johannesburg
Finance & Economic Development
Why target the Inner City?
• Over 201,000
jobs (15%) of
the city’s
employment
opportunities
Total Inner City is 1.1% of total
Joburg area (1,786 ha excluding
Zone 5); allowable UDZ is 690 ha
What is the Inner City?
Zone 1- office & business:
28% of Inner City (502
ha) & 4,212 erven
Zone 3 – Fordsburg +:
7% of Inner City (118
ha) & 1,858 erven
Zone 4 – Residential +:
42% of Inner City (749
ha) & 8,856 erven
Zone 2 – Manufacturing & industrial: 23%
of Inner City (417 ha) & 2,489 erven
Information for investors
• CGIS-hosted database
• Property (erf) based information
• Available free on the internet
– Free version
– Subscriber version
• Better aerial photographs
• More detailed planning info
• Better report facility
• Short introduction to Inner City database
• http://eservices.joburg.org.za
Inner City Database
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As JV between CoJ & SAPOA
3-year agreement
Now CBD, Newtown & Braamfontein
Soon Hillbrow & Berea
• Another useful database is the Nodal
database
• Also part of the CoJ-SAPOA JV
• 25 economic nodes: property sector data
Inner City & Economic Nodes
• http://eservices.joburg.org.za
• Note ongoing maintenance and extension
of both databases