MCU15/0095 & REC15/0022 PM Submission Object - Petition

                                                                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.

  5. 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 accessto 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 accessthe 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 Hazardsin 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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