In this sense, the administration and citizens of Cape Town show much interest in the issue of landscape formation, and their basic ideals on this area are set out in the City Bowl Growth Management Strategy.
The basic purport of this framework for landscape formation is to divide the inner city area up into a number of "Landscape Webs" and to build a worthwhile urban landscape based around these webs. The Waterfront is located on the edge of one of these landscape webs and it is considered that great care is required with regard to the landscape when advancing development here.
The planned LRT will run alongside existing roads and, by choosing rolling stock colors that blend with the surroundings, and so on, it is possible to minimize the visual impact of the system as seen by pedestrians and people looking from surrounding building windows. Moreover, unlike other elevated rail systems, the LRT will not reduce air space and not impede the skyline and important landscape created by Table Mountain, etc. in the distance. In this way, the LRT can be described as the optimum system in terms of landscape preservation too.
