[talk-au] Residential landuse

[Stephen Hope]

I'm doing some work on the outskirts of Brisbane, where the properties
start to get bigger, doing some clean up. And I got to wondering about
residential landuse.

At one end of the scale, you have inner city housing (350-1000 sq m
lots), and there's no question they are residential.  At the other,
there's huge farms with a house - they're not.  But what's the
dividing line?  How big an acreage do you get to before you decide
that landuse=residential doesn't really apply any more?  What's the
consensus?

I know of a whole area of houses with 5 acre lots, and they don't do
any farming - you just have a big house with a lot of lawn.  Is this
residential?

Further out, I know of an area where the lots are more like 20-30
acres - they're not all lawn, but they're not used for farming or
anything either.  A couple of them have a pony for the kids, but that
doesn't make it a farm. These are used only as residences, but I to me
I think we're getting way past the limit of size for marking them as
residential landuse.  Or am I wrong?

Any guidelines or suggestions?


Stephen