Noosa VMU RFI Response Lodged 23.11.23 · MCU23/0078

          The proposed Precincts include:
              •   Village Mixed Use Precinct;
              •   Bar and Dining Precinct;
              •   Recreation Precinct;
              •   Business Precinct;
              •   Arts and Innovation Precinct;
              •   Residential Precinct.

          Please refer to the attached proposal plans for areas and uses proposed within each Precinct.

          Interchangeability of consistent uses within each Precinct is proposed, with a retail floorspace cap
          of 7,500m2 (Food and Drink Outlets, Shops inclusive of supermarket) is sought to be conditioned
          on the VMU Precinct and the Bar and Dining Precinct.

18.       The amended proposal plans provide for the landscaping and servicing of Lot 3 and Lot 7 as stand
          alone development sites and are individually compliant with the relevant requirement under the
          Noosa Plan.


18.       Updated responses to all relevant codes have been prepared and are attached. The proposed mix
          and location of uses is consistent with the planning outcome and intent for the Major Centre Zone
          and for the Village Mixed Use 5D Precinct, the Business Park 5A Precinct and the High Density
          Residential 5E Precinct.

 Issue - Integration with the Transit Centre

 Under the Major Centre Zone Code, overall outcome (3)(h), states:

 Development provides an integrated built form with visual and physical connectivity across and throughout the
 Noosa Business Centre including the subregional transit facility.

 Further, overall outcome (4)(h) states:

      Development is designed and sited to visually and physically integrate well with the subregional
      transit facility.

 Under the development approval for Reconfiguring a Lot, it is proposed that the transit centre be located within
 Lot 24, which is subject to a further planning scheme amendment1. Consequently, it is reasonably expected that
 development will be integrated with the proposed transit centre in this location. While a pedestrian pathway is
 provided along the proposed internal roadway, the proposed development does not integrate or have any real
 association with the proposed development given the landscape buffer, parking and access to the basement
 carpark to the north.

 The proposal does not provide a high-quality pedestrian environment that connects with the subregional
 transport facility at the entrance to the ’main street’.

 Information Required:

 19.       Provide amended proposal plans demonstrating how the proposed development has been designed and
           sited, both visually and physically, to be integrated with the proposed subregional transit facility, which is
           now to be located within Lot 24.
 20.       Provide further information that demonstrates safe, convenient, and amenable pedestrian connectivity
           from the proposed development to the sub-regional transit facility

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