SBC Master Plan Stage 1 Concepts · 132002.220285

CHOOSING FUTURES: Shire Business Centre Master Plan - Stage 1 7

19.3.1.17 The site will be planned to provide for
multi-modal transport linkages, including public
transport.

Internal Traffic Movements

19.3.1.18 The master plan will be based on
achieving efficient internal vehicular traffic circulation,
however traffic movements will be subservient to and
not compromise pedestrian access and movement
between activity areas.

19.8.1.3 In order to ensure that the utility of these
roads may be maintained for the future or improved,
target utility characteristics have been developed
which will be used to assess the suitability of
development. These target utility characteristics are
indicated in Figure 22.

The potential new roads referenced in 19.8.1.1 will
have major significance in the future:-

e in the south-west, the corridor between Emu
Mountain Road-Eenie Creek Road and
potentially extending to Goodchap Street will
potentially provide a new access to the Shire.
Concepts associated with this road include
avoiding future traffic congestion in the
Noosaville industrial estate, spreading traffic
loads between Eumundi Road and the new
road, providing more direct and convenient
access to the Shire Business Centre at Eenie
Creek Road. Key factors associated with the
utility of this road include limitations on access,
although an access to the Shire Business
Centre site from the corridor Emu Mountain
Road-Eenie Creek Road may be provided
consistent with 19.3.1.14. As a consequence,
development to the east of the road should be
confined to open space and low density rural
settlement and to the west of the road (excluding
the Shire Business Centre), access should be
directed fo Eumundi Road.

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Whilst there are many aspects of relevance in the
Strategic Plan that are considered in the Master
Plan, there is one significant procedural matter that
requires consideration.

Section 19.3.1.4 requires that the planning and
development principles for the site be refined as part
of a master planning process. Section 19.3.1.5
requires that the Master Pian deal with overall
development concepts, sequencing of development
and guidelines. Section 19.3.1.6 requires
consultation with a range of parties over the master
plan, with approval being required from Noosa
Council and relevant State Government agencies.

it follows that the approval of the master plan (or at
least major elements of it} must necessarily take
place prior to the issue of a development approval
over the site. Otherwise consistency between the
development approvai (for instance its content and
sequencing aspects), the needs of the community
and the provisions of the Strategic Plan could not be
assured.

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The master plan must also be prepared in
consultation with relevant stakeholders...{Section
19.3.1.6). It is the preparation of the master plan on
which consultation must take place, reinforcing the
fact that there should be sign off from the reijevant
parties on the master plan, prior to issue of any
development approval. It is concluded that:

a. The Strategic Plan provides for the
development of a master plan independent of
the development application process, with sign
off on the major elements of the plan needed
prior to submission of a development
application; and

b. As a step along the way to achieving a master
plan, consultation is needed with the
community, State agencies and the developer
on Shire Business Centre Master Plan: Stage 17
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An extensive range of documents accompanied an
application lodged by Montbar Pty Ltd on
30/09/2000. Council staff and its consultants have
reviewed these documents. In consultation with the
then Department of Communication, Information,
Local Government, Planning & Sport and other
agencies, the review of the documents led to a
request for further information. The information
request had not been satisfied at the time the initial
Master Plan was prepared. Montbar provided further
information, however there was little additional
mapping that would assist in the
development of this Master Plan. Therefore in terms
of the constraints, the Master Plan draws from the
original documentation prepared in 1999.

An area that also supports habitat for the elf skink,
which is classified as a rare species under the
Nature Conservation (Wildlife) Regulations. The
skink is understood to be associated with the
Eucalyptus grandis (Flooded Gum) unit of vegetation
on the site. At this stage, the extent and viability of
the skink habitat over the site is not well understood’.

Based on the Montbar documentation, the habitat for
the elf skink and considerations made in the
Strategic Plan, an assessment has been made of the
constraints to development. The outcomes of the
assessment are depicted in Map 2.2 (on page 8).

® Fur further information relating to the circumstances of the
skink habitat, refer to the Manager Strategic Planning's
report to Council's meeting of 24/05/2001. ;

 

Final, endorsed by Council 24/05/2001 Oost