2021-02-25 Special Meeting Agenda

SPECIAL MEETING AGENDA                                                               25 FEBRUARY 2021

with the rural character which the planning scheme seeks to protect at this location. Furthermore
the design of the proposed dwellings are not reflective of the built form characteristic of Cooroy.
The following image provides an aerial view of a Living Gems development in Logan Village noting
that the current proposal provides some additional landscaping (Living Gems is the parent
company of GemLife).




                 Figure 18: Aerial photograph of built form of Living Gems in Logan Village

Biodiversity – Riparian Buffer
Lot 2 (122 Myall Street) contains a creek line which dissects the front portion of the lot and flows
in a northerly direction. The creek carries flows from 220 hectares upstream and flows into Lake
Macdonald, a potable water supply storage area. Lake Macdonald drains into the 6 Mile creek
which feeds into the Mary River and finally into the Great Sandy Strait marine park.
Approximately 750m of this creek line dissects the golf course and the proposed development site,
with 130m upstream in lot 2. The Noosa Plan 2006 assigns a riparian buffer protection overlay of
75m each side of the creek whilst the Noosa Plan 2020 assigns a 100m buffer to each side of the
creek. The larger buffer is a result of the State’s requirements to protect creek lines which flow into
Mary River system. The proposed development significantly intrudes into these riparian buffers as
identified in Figure 19 below.
This unnamed tributary of the 6 Mile Creek system provides habitat values for threatened fauna
species. The site contains habitat suitable for state and commonwealth threatened species such
as the Giant Barred Frog, Tusked frog, Cascade Tree Frog and possibly the Green Thighed Frog.
Platypus have been reported at the golf club and the site contains suitable habitat. Koalas, Tusked
frogs and Giant Barred Frogs have been reported within 1km of the site.
The provision of a bridge crossing in this location will accelerate bank erosion and cause bed
lowering due to constraining high flows at the bridge. Bank erosion will lead to destabilisation of
existing trees and cause tree falls, thus further accelerating bank erosion. Loss of vegetation and

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