SBC Master Plan Stage 1 Concepts · 132002.220285

CHOOSING FUTURES: Shire Business Centre Master Plan - Stage 1

 

Apart from the planning and design principles flowing
from the Strategic Plan (refer to Section 2.1 above)
and the constraints over the site (Section 2.2), there
is also a range of other principles, opportunities and

constraints that have been considered

in the

development of this Master Plan:

a.

The site should be developed as a centre of
urban design and environmental excellence tn
both built and natural environments,
showcasing the attributes of the site, the
environmental capabilities of the Shire and best
practice environmental technologies.

Key design elements should include a transport
system that is not sub-servient to the needs of
motor vehicles; energy-efficient design; the
generation of renewable energy; waste
minimisation; recycling; etc.

Presentation of the site as viewed from
elevated bridging associated with the southern
access road and from the southern approach to
the bridge is of importance. From land to the
south at around RL10, the road would drop to a
bridge deck level of around RL4 or 5, providing
visible sight lines across the Shire Business
Centre site.

Designations adjacent to the southern access
road provide the opportunity for the character of
the adjacent areas to be maintained, thereby
providing an open space feel on this entry to
Noosa Shire. This character can be reinforced
by the frontage treatments along the Shire
Business Centre site, with natural vegetation
being retained in strips of significant width,
together with occasional wider areas.

Staged development of the site can optimise
opportunities to test outcomes. For instance, by
developing those parts of the site that are well
removed from the external road system first,
opportunities exist to alter traffic designs
without impacting on the then existing
development {as would be the case if peripheral
areas were developed first).

Drainage lines through the site should be used
as key definitional items providing edges to
major functions.

Because the site will develop over a period of
time, provision should be made for organic
growth of core activities, radiating from a
centre, rather than commencing from a
peripheral point. The drainage arms across the
site can be used to ensure that potential
problems arising from conventional concentric
growth can be ameliorated.

Capacity shouid be retained on the site in the
longer term to take advantage of potential new
employment opportunities, as the identification
of alternative land in the coastal part of Noosa
Shire will become is already difficult and will
become more so in the future.

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The functioning of Eenie Creek Road and the
southern access road are of key importance to
traffic flows across the coastal area of the
Shire. The Shire Business Centre site should
be designed such that peak traffic flows to the
site do not impact on the wider functions Eenie
Creek Road and the southern access road.

Intersections, both internal and external to the
Shire Business Centre site should be designed
to operate without the need for traffic lights.

There are traffic and economic imperatives that
necessitate connectivity between the existing
Noosaville industrial estate and the Shire
Business Centre, however the potential for
conflict between heavy vehicles and both other
traffic and certain land uses requires control.

Traffic distribution through the site will benefit
from provision of a loop road providing for
circulation and distribution of traffic.

Traffic movements at surface level within key
business and employment areas may benefit
from one-way loop systems to reduce the
potential for conflict between vehicles and
pedestrian/bikeway systems.

Key parking areas need to be _ located
immediately adjacent to key generators. In this
respect, the key generators will be the main
retail areas and the key employment nodes.

While it is desirable to identify nodes for
particular forms of development, it is also
desirable to maintain the opportunity for a
dynamic mix of development. Development
precincts are a convenient way of describing
and labelling mapping and associated conirois,
however some care needs to be exercised to
ensure that such precincts are not read as
discrete areas preventing appropriate
integration of functions.

The relationship between the main retail areas
and open space areas is of importance. in
addition, some key employment nodes would
benefit from strong relationships with open
space areas.

The relationship between the main retail areas
and key employment nodes is of importance.

Pedestrian movements and many bicycle
movements between key nodes within the site
should be able to occur without the need to
cross-vehicular traffic systems.

Based on ail the considerations above, two broad
concepts have been devised:

A simple function layout depicting open space
and development precincts and key connectivity
- Figure 3.4 on page 10; and

A simple traffic layout snowing key connectivity
and circulation - Figure 3.2 on page 11.

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