2021-10-08 Special Meeting Agenda

SPECIAL MEETING AGENDA                                                                   8 OCTOBER 2021


 Community comment                                     Proposed response
 General – CHAP approach
 Remove any possibility of planned / forceable buy-    The CHAP options assessment looked at a range
 back or acquisition of private property.              of adaptation responses for Noosa North Shore.
                                                       This included the option of land buy back. This
                                                       option assessed what opportunities could be
                                                       available for Council to acquire properties impacted
                                                       by coastal erosion. This also included options for
                                                       temporary lease back to the property owners. The
                                                       cost benefit analysis demonstrated that this option
                                                       does not deliver sufficient benefits and therefore is
                                                       not feasible for further consideration. This is clearly
                                                       expressed in Section 4 of the CHAP.
 Encourage use of Noosa North Shore as an              Council has no plans to build a bridge to Noosa
 alternative to Noosa Main Beach by building a toll    North Shore as an alternative to the ferry.
 bridge. This would reduce escalating wait times for
 residents at the ferry.

Further Community Consultation
A range of changes are proposed to the draft CHAP on the basis of feedback received through the
community engagement process earlier this year and also from the CHAP Roundtable process which
helped in understanding concerns raised. These changes are identified in revision mode in
Attachment 2. There has been a high level of interest from the community in this CHAP process and
as such, it is proposed to undertake further community consultation. This will give the community an
opportunity to provide feedback to Council on the proposed changes noting that there has already
been 6 weeks of community engagement on the initial draft CHAP.
Attachment 3 provides an outline of the proposed community engagement approach.

Previous Council Consideration
Council Ordinary meeting dated 19 August 2021
That Council note the report by the Chief Executive Officer to the General Committee Meeting dated
16 August 2021 and note progress on the Coastal Hazards Adaptation Plan (CHAP) community
engagement process.
Ordinary Meeting Minutes, 21 January 2021, Item 3, Page 7
That Council note the report by the Principal Strategic Planner and Program Coordinator Climate
Change Adaptation to the General Committee Meeting dated 18 January 2021 and
A.    Approve the draft Coastal Hazards Adaptation Plan and supporting information for the purpose
      of community consultation, as provided in Attachments 1 - 4;
B.    Approve the Community Engagement and Communications Plan, as provided in Attachment
      5; and
C.    Note that updates have been made to the coastal hazard mapping of erosion for beachfront
      areas between Peregian Beach and Sunshine Beach and that this updated mapping has been
      made available to the public through Council’s online mapping via Council’s website.
Ordinary Meeting Minutes, 18 July 2019, Item 2, Page 17
That Council note the report by the Program Coordinator Climate Change Adaptation to the Planning
& Environment Committee Meeting dated 9 July 2019 and:
A.    Endorse the Coastal Hazards Mapping Refinement report provided in Attachment 1, including
      the methodologies contained therein, for the purposes of completing the coastal hazards


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