1. 1971a. See City of Sydney, City of Adelaide, 1974; City of Melbourne, 1974. The term Strategic Plan is not entirely appropriate, since it has generally been used in the context of regional planning, where the objective is to devise an overall ‘strategy’ for future development of an area (information from an entry on Strategic Planning in a glossary of planning terms currently in preparation by Peter Harrison, Urban Research Unit. ANU). The author is grateful to Peter Harrison and Max Neutze for comments on an earlier draft of this paper; however, the opinions expressed in this paper are personal
2. 1972b. Although there was no formal floor-space ratio code in operation in Central Sydney before 1971. the NSW Government Height of Buildings Advisory Committee (to which all applications for buildings over 140 feet were referred) generally allowed buildings in the CBD a base floor-space ratio 10:1, and a maximum ratio of 12:1 in the event of the building being set back or in the event of extra open space at ground level being provided (Harrison
3. This Committee consists of representatives from the Council and its planning staff, and from State Government departments most closely involved in planning policies affecting the City. It has acted as a forum for discussion of Strategic Planning policy revision
4. One of the few office developments approved under the 1971 FSR Code, the MLC Centre, while it has created some new open space and retailing at ground level, rises to 68 storeys, and is 250 metres high—45 metres higher than the second AMP tower at Circular Quay (previously Sydney's tallest building)