avoiding definition
avoiding means ‘not allowing’ or ‘preventing the occurrence of’;
avoiding a conflict of interest means Associates take decisions or actions to ensure a conflict of interest does not occur, or does not have the potential to occur, in the first place.
avoiding in this context means not allowing. The Rural Proposal must give effect to that policy direction. In my view, the appropriate status of rules to ‘implement’ this policy direction is a non-complying activity status. Non-complying activity status provides greater clarity that a district plan sets its face away from consenting such activities, or focusing on an incremental approach in the consideration of individual activities or their effects.