2020-12-17 Ordinary Meeting Agenda

ORDINARY MEETING AGENDA                                                     17 DECEMBER 2020



1    ATTENDANCE & APOLOGIES




2    CONFIRMATION OF MINUTES

     The Minutes of the Ordinary Meeting held on 19 November 2020 be received and confirmed.




3    MAYORAL MINUTES


                              MAYORAL MINUTE
I hereby give notice of my intention to move the following motion at the Ordinary Meeting on
Thursday, 17 December 2020:


1    AFFORDABLE HOUSING
     That Council note the Mayoral Minute provided to the Ordinary Meeting dated 17 December
     2020, and:
     A.    Request the CEO to review existing Noosa Council land assets to determine if any such
           land would be appropriate for the development of social housing;
     B.    Request the CEO to incorporate consideration of priority sector employee housing within
           the upcoming review of the Local Economic Plan;
     C.    Request the CEO to bring forward a report to a future Council meeting identifying
           potential amendments to the planning scheme to accelerate the provision of suitable
           community housing;
     D.    Council continue to negotiate with State and Local community housing providers in the
           development of an economically efficient model to achieve a mix of public, social and
           private affordable accommodation within community housing developments; and
     E.    Council continue to work closely with State Member Sandy Bolton and her Housing
           Action Group.



Introduction

This Mayoral Minute is intended to commence a process to look at what we can do as a Council to
alleviate the problem of affordable housing in our community.

While affordable housing has been an issue in our Noosa community for many years, it has recently
been exacerbated by market forces leading to the current affordable housing crisis. As a Council,
we need to take action to support our community and to deal with this issue.



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