Profile of the Roodepoort CBD

Описание: History: Roodepoort is a city located in Region C on the western edge of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, situated immediately to the west of Johannesburg within the Witwatersrand region. In 1884 Fred Struben discovered gold on the farm Wilgespruit at the western end of the gold-bearing Witwatersrand. He called this Confidence Reef - a site declared a national monument in 1985. When George Harrison’s find in Johannesburg became known and with the gold rush taking off, the Struben brothers were joined by many gold diggers. When gold at the Confidence Reef ran out, the town Roodepoort was born and firmly established. Remnants of mine dumps are found scattered to the south of Roodepoort sterilising land for development, with the only activities taking place being informal mining undertaken by Zama Zamas.

City of Johannesburg Municipal Plans:
Johannesburg Spatial Development Framework

2040:
To address these priorities the following goals for transformation are essential:
- From sprawl, fragmentation and inverted polycentricity to compact polycentricity.
From job-housing mismatch to spatially matching people, jobs and skills.

From mono-functional land uses to mixed use densities.
From spatial disconnection to a connected city (through public transit and improved walkability).
From limited diversity to mixed land use, with traditional zoning supplemented by form-based codes.
From inefficient land use and unsustainable land markets to synchronising public and private investment around transit stations, nodes and transformation areas.
From diminishing environmental resources to protecting the environment as a natural, social and economic asset.
From gated private spaces to accessible public spaces.

The SDF 2040 is premised on spatial transformation, defined through the principles of equity, justice, resilience, sustainability and urban efficiency which it seeks to translate into a development policy.