10% Allocation of City Master Plan Areas for Business and Industrial Investment

TLDR

• As part of that effort, the government directed planning authorities to allocate 10% of every area covered by a City Master Plan for business and industrial investment, alongside a Strategic Environmental Assessment.
• Under the Fifth Phase Government, then Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa reported that a total of 127,859 acres had been set aside for industrial use nationwide, in pursuit of the goal of reaching middle-income economy.
• Leonard Akwilapo, has directed regions and districts across Tanzania to set aside and prepare dedicated areas for the establishment of industrial clusters.
• He noted that reserving industrial areas is also intended to prevent conflicts between residential, agricultural, industrial and other land uses that require designated sites.
• Tanzania Industrial Land Reservation Policy The directive builds on a long-standing national policy of reserving land for industrial investment as part of Tanzania’s industrialisation drive.