Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis says the city has declared a formal intergovernmental dispute owing to what it calls the “unconstitutional and unlawful” District Development Model regulations, which came into effect in May this year under the Intergovernmental Relations Framework (IGFR) Act. In a letter to the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) Velenkosini Hlabisa, Hill-Lewis writes that the regulations unlawfully infringe on local government’s constitutional role of municipal planning, amounting to a red-tape burden without adding value to local government outcomes.