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

balance lot
b) A traffic management          It is considered that a traffic    The applicant has not provided
procedure to demonstrate         management procedure is not        the information required.
refuelling will not impact on    necessary. As per the Traffic
traffic movements in Eumundi-    Report prepared by QTraffic        The applicant states that the
Noosa Road or the internal       originally submitted, the site     existing arrangements will still
traffic within the site. Also,   access arrangements are            apply, but they do not take into
advise if time restrictions will consistent with the existing       consideration the low threshold
be implemented on refuelling     arrangements, and are              for queuing which exists once
operation schedules to address   considered to be appropriate       refuelling commences and
this issue.                      given the nature of the use and    vehicles are dually utilising the
                                 the existing road environment.     easement for both
                                 Section 4 of the report states     development sites during the
                                 that the level of traffic          refuelling process, that is,
                                 generation for the proposed        existing arrangements are
                                 development is low, and once       insufficient.
                                 distributed onto the
                                 surrounding road network,
                                 would be within the range of
                                 typical fluctuations in traffic
                                 volumes.
c) Assessment of the need for a It is considered that queuing in    The applicant has not provided
no-queuing area to avoid         the easement area will be          the information required.
obstructions to traffic flows    unlikely as a result of the
within the access easement       proposed service station           Any future development of the
area and to allow for the future development given the ample        second lot will require to either
development of the balance lot. queuing space on site, as per       co-utilise the easement
                                 Drawing No 15193- D13.             resulting in back-up or apply to
                                 However, as mentioned in 7.a       install a neighbouring
                                 above, any future development      easement. A second easement
                                 application over the balance lot   will present visibility difficulties
                                 will also presumably be            and associated risks to exiting
                                 required to demonstrate no         vehicles. It will also pose an
                                 queuing into the easement          unacceptable risk of further
                                 area.                              compounding traffic congestion
                                                                    on the Eumundi Noosa Road

81.   Significantly, the applicant has not provided any solution to the Noosa Council’s
      concerns with the potential for queuing in the road and traffic conflict in the shared
      access area (easement area), as in its opinion, queuing in the easement area will be
      unlikely as a result of the proposed service station development given the ample
      queuing space on site. As the applicant has not allayed the Council’s concerns, this
      clearly supports our position that the DA is inconsistent with the following objectives
      of the Noosa Plan:

                Use of land for a service station does not impair traffic flow or road safety
                The safety of pedestrians and cyclists is protected
                Vehicular access does not adversely impact on safety, capacity and
                 operations of the existing or planned road network, the proposed driveway,
                 cycleways or pedestrian pathway system
                Access and egress points do not impact on the safety and operations of the
                 road system

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