2019-12-11 SM Agenda - Item 1 - Attachment 4 - Final New Noosa Plan Part 8-9 Schedule Appendix Track Change version

     (o)   clearing in accordance with a permit under the former local law.

     Essential community infrastructure
     essential community infrastructure means any one or more of the following:-
     (a)   emergency services infrastructure;
     (b)   emergency shelters;
     (c)   police facilities;
     (d)   hospitals and associated facilities; and
     (e)   stores of valuable records or heritage items
     (f)   power stations and substations;
     (g)   major switch yards;
     (h)   communication facilities;
     (i)   sewage treatment plants;
     (j)   water treatment plants.



     Extractive resources
     extractive resources means natural deposits of sand, gravel, quarry rock, clay and soil extracted from the earth’s crust and
     processed for use in construction. The term does not include minerals under the Mineral Resources Act 1989 such as metal ores,
     coal, clay for ceramic purposes, foundry sand, limestone and silica sand mined and used for their chemical properties, and rock
     mined in block or slab form for building or monumental purposes.

     Extractive resource separation area
     extractive resource separation area shown on a Extractive Resources Overlay Map, being the area surrounding the
     resource/processing area required to maintain separation from people and land uses potentially affected by impacts such as noise,
     dust and ground vibrations of existing and or future extractive operations in the resource/processing area.

     Fire access track
     fire access track means an area free of trees and able to be easily accessed by fire fighting vehicles.

     Firebreak
     firebreak means an area of land cleared of non-fire retardant vegetation of sufficient width to minimise the risk of spread of
     bushfire.

     Fire management activity
     fire management activity means the controlled use of fire for pasture management, to manage the risk of wild fire and to assist
     with the maintenance of ecological processes in vegetation communities that are ecologically adapted to fire.

     Foreshore
     foreshore means the land in the Noosa Shire lying between the high water mark and low water mark at ordinary spring tides and
     controlled by the Noosa Shire under the Local Government Act 2009.

     Forest practice
     Forest practice means planting trees, or managing, felling and removing standing trees, on freehold land or indigenous land on
     which the State does not own the trees, for an ongoing forestry business in a—
     (a)   plantation; or
     (b)   native forest, if, in the native forest—
           (i)    all the activities are conducted in a way that is consistent with the accepted development vegetation clearing code
                  applying to conducting a native forest practice; or
           (ii)   if the code does not apply to the activities, all the activities are conducted in a way that—
                  (A)       ensures restoration of a similar type, and to the extent, of the removed trees; and
                  (B)       ensures trees are only felled for the purpose of being sawn into timber or processed into another value
                            added product (other than woodchips for an export market); and


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