Sunshine Butterflies - Attachments A - C - 010816

468 McKinnon Drive, Cooroibah

Property Access Study for Sunshine Butterflies
Background

Tod Consulting have volunteered to assist the local charity Sunshine Butterflies with the development
of a new facility on McKinnon Drive, Cooroibah, known as “Our Backyard”.

Sunshine Butterflies is a disability support service and charity supporting babies, kids, tweens, teens
and adults with a disability and their families. Our Backyard is a 5 acre hobby farm in Cooroibah (near
Tewantin) which currently includes a 3 bedroom wheelchair accessible house and in the future, when
construction is complete, will be available for short or long term respite or family stays.

Following discussions with Noosa Council by Planning Consultant and ex-Councillor Russell Green
arrangements are being made to lodge a Material Change of Use (MCU) application.

Introduction

Greg Jackson of Tod Consulting undertook a site inspection of the existing driveway access and site
frontage located at 468 McKinnon Drive, Cooroibah (Lot 2 on RP214534), on Friday 29 July 2016.

Traffic Generation

The Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT) on this section of McKinnon Drive is only 2,180 vehicles per
day.

The Sunshine Butterflies team consists of 5-10 staff per day who travel by private vehicle to the site (6
vehicles per day). Wednesday is the busiest day and Friday the quietest; with client’s numbers being
about 10-20 persons per day. A free transport service is offered for these clients using 4 x 12 seater
buses, with clients picked up in town and transferred to the property (similar to the existing transfer
arrangements between client pick up areas and the warehouse in Noosaville).

      User              No. of         No. of trips /     Total No. of             Time of trip
                       vehicles        vehicle / day         Trips
      Staff               6                  2                12                9.00am – 4.00pm
     Clients              4                  2                 8                9.30am – 2.30pm
    Residents             2                  8                16                7.00am – 6.00pm
    Deliveries            1                  2                 2               10.00am – 12.00pm
     TOTAL                                                    38


Based on the above it can be seen that the proposed development will generate a very low volume of
traffic (1.7% of base traffic volume) with the majority of the trips being made outside the conventional
peak hour times.

Intersection Warrants

The warrants for turn treatments at an intersection are a function of the peak hour traffic flows for the
right turn, the through movement on the same approach and opposing traffic on the opposite
approach as described in Austroads.

Figure 4.9 from the Guide to Road Design – Part 4A: Unsignalised and Signalised Intersections
indicates the provision of a Rural Basic Right Turn (BAR) and Left Turn (BAL) Treatment is required.



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