2021-03-15 General Committee Agenda

GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                       15 MARCH 2021




 Figure 20: Proposed works within the Riparian Buffer – 2006 (yellow) and 2020 (purple) planning schemes

    Traffic and Car Parking:
    The application was reviewed by both the Department of Transport and Main Roads (DTMR),
    as a referral authority, and by a consulting traffic engineer. DTMR have advised the access
    to the site from the north-western corner and associated left and right turning lanes in Myall
    Street is acceptable. DTMR’s required access point results in significant works in the riparian
    buffer attributed to the access driveway and bridge. DTMR have confirmed that an alternative
    access is available at the southern end of the site and outside the riparian buffer.
    The review of the proposal by the external traffic engineer notes that in terms of the impacts
    on the broader road system:
           … the impacts are mainly on TMR roads and intersections and TMR have issued their
           approval. Furthermore, the additional information supplied in the TTM report of 28 Nov
           2019 is sufficient to verify that the traffic generation rates they used in the original TTM
           report of 9 September 2019, are appropriate. In that context, given that the golf club
           already exists (acknowledging that the new clubhouse will be bigger), it is reasonable
           to assume that most of the golf course traffic is already on the road system and will
           simply access the road system at a new location further along Myall Street. Thus, the
           additional traffic is essentially that associated with the retirement community, which
           being in the order of 25 in and 25 out in the AM peak, would be less than 5% of existing
           peak hour volumes in Myall Street (about 500vph in each direction in the AM peak)
           after allowance is made for some site traffic to be oriented to/from the Bruce Highway,
           rather than all being associated with the Cooroy township direction.
           … if the relocatable home park were to operate in the future without age restriction,
           then the associated traffic generation of the relocatable home park would be expected
           to be 2-3 times greater than that associated with a retirement use (2-3 times higher


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