MCU15/0095 & REC15/0022 PM Submission Object - Maree Burgess

                                                                          practice demands that service station facilities be set
                                                                          back a far greater distance from the School.

   2.   The    nearest         structure       on    the    school        The relevance          of this statement             is unclear         and if
        boundary        is the       pump        house for the            anything demonstrates           the proximity          of the proposed
        school pool                                                       service station        to the School pool facilities                used by
                                                                          toddlers and young children.

   3. The          proposed            service       station        is    Visual distinction       is the least of the concerns that are
        orientated          away from         the school and              associated      with     the   location         of a service           station
        towards        the      Eumundi-            Noosa      Road       adjacent      to,     indeed   adjoining,           a School         and       its
        frontage,           providing       visual    distinction         associated health and physical education facilities.
        between both sites.

   4. The service station                   refuelling      area is       The       Applicant      provides         no     justification         for     its
        sufficiently         distanced       from    the     school       assertion      that      the   Development              "is      sufficiently
        boundary which is greater than 25m.                               distanced from the school boundary which is greater
                                                                          than 25m."


                                                                          In the contrary        we have demonstrated                   elsewhere        in
                                                                          this document          that international         and Australian             best
                                                                          practice demands that service station facilities be set
                                                                          back a far greater distance from the School.

   S.   All vehicle access relating to the service                        The relevance of this statement                  is once again unclear.
        station      and       future       proposed         Lot    2     The access being off Eumundi-Noosa                       Road, which is
        development            is obtained         via Eumundi-           the same as the access to the School and only a short
        Noosa Road which is more than suitably                            distance      away creates          the    potential        for increased
        distanced       from        the     school    access off          traffic     queuing      and   obstruction           along       the     short
        Walter Hay Drive.                                                 stretch of road between the two entrances.

   6. A dedicated              pedestrian        pathway       from       Again the relevance of this statement                    is unclear. The
        Walter       Hay       Drive      is proposed.          This      pathway       provides     no additional           protection          for the
        pathway         connects          Walter      Hay      Drive      School children. Indeed it provides further                       unwanted
        directly       to     the    site     and     the      store      opportunity         for children to access the shop, which is
        building,      thus      reducing        any potential            undoubtedly         the main purpose of the development,
        conflict        between             pedestrians         and       that is to encourage the school children to purchase
        vehicles.                                                         from the shop and increase the profits to the owner
                                                                          at the expense           of - and threat             to -        the School
                                                                          children.


The Applicant       has also failed to respond seriously and comprehensively                             to Council's request for further
information      regarding the Airborne              Hazards in proximity to the School identified                       by Council as an area of
critical importance          to the Development            application:


   Applicant's      Response                     Objectors'     Response

   1. Benzene as an active                       The Applicant provides mere idle assertion in the face of the evidence



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