Noosa Council Submission 18 December 2015 - Final submission with table of submitters

          Overall outcomes

73.   An overall outcome sought for the Business Code (Part 14, Noosa Plan, section 14.11.2
      b)viii) is that:


             Business Uses meet the needs and expectations of the Noosa community in terms of
             providing logical traffic arrangements without congestion or lengthy delays.

74.   The DA will significantly increase the traffic on the Eumundi Noosa Road, the
      roundabout outside GSLC and pedestrians (predominantly children) on the footpath
      entrance, in the event of queuing to access the proposed site, causing traffic
      congestion. Additionally, the stationary traffic backing up along Goodchap Street will
      also have a potentially harmful effect on the flow of vehicles accessing the Noosa
      Hospital, including emergency vehicles.

75.   The applicant has provided no objective analysis of the likely queuing frequency or the
      extent of this.

          Specific outcomes

76.   The DA does not achieve the specific outcomes relating to Service Stations for the
      Business Uses Code (Part 14 of the Noosa Plan, section 14.12) as set out in the Table
      below.


          Table 14-15 Service Station

 Specific Outcomes           Applicant’s Response        Submitter’s Response

 Siting 076                  Complies                    Non-compliant
 Service stations are        It is considered that the   Likely future traffic movements will be
 located only where          proposed development is     progressively greater with time as the
 they are compatible         suitably located, given     population density increases and on
 with the existing and       that the immediate          completion of neighbouring developments,
 proposed amenity and        locality comprises          such as another, much larger service station
 development of a            predominantly industry      at 139 Eumundi Noosa Road.
 neighbourhood and           zoned land with a variety
 where they are              of uses including retail
 appropriate given the       and commercial.
 existing or likely future
 traffic movements in
 the area.

 Traffic and Access 085      S84.1- S85.1 Not            Non-compliant
 The use of land for a       Applicable                  Whilst the QTraffic Report indicates that
 service station –                                       there will be no noticeable disruption to
 a)does not impair                                       traffic flow, we strongly disagree. Having a
 traffic flow or road                                    double driveway onto a main road (that is,
 safety                                                  the Eumundi Noosa Road) just before the
                                                         Walter Hay Drive/Eumundi Noosa Road
                                                         roundabout, coupled with approximately
                                                         200 hundred planned entries per hour into
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