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In any case, these buildings have been appropriately screened from view
through the use of a landscaping treatment akin with that proposed for the
subject application.

Finally, it is noted that Probable Solution S193.2 provides for only a 2m
landscaped strip behind which uncovered carparking can be located within a
10m setback solution. The proposed landscape and setback solution is
considered to provide a far superior outcome to this “deemed to comply”
position.

3. Please indicate on the amended plans bicycle parking in accordance with
   Probable Solution S31 of the Business Uses Code.

Applicant’s response
The proposal has now been amended to provide for 28 bicycle parking spaces,
compliant with the relevant provisions of the Noosa Plan 2006. Refer to the
Traffic Engineering Issues response in Appendix D.

4. Provide a signage plan indicating proposed sign areas in accordance with
   the Advertising Devices Code.

Applicant’s response
As per discussions with Council officers, the applicant will be lodging shortly a
separate Operational Works application for approval of the proposed signage.
This application includes an assessment against Council’s signage Code. For
convenience, a copy of the proposed signage plans are included here as
Appendix E.

5. Demonstrate that the use is in accordance with 11.8.2 of the Noosaville
   Locality Code.

Applicant’s response
As “background” to this RFI item, Council has made reference to the proposed
food and beverage use and seems to be suggesting that it may somehow be
an incompatible use with the nearby Good Shepherd Lutheran College.

An assessment of use compatibility, which is what we believe is underpinning the
Overall Outcome being referenced by Council in 11.8.2, is usually centred
around the extent to which one use might impact on the other and vice versa,
and the extent to which any impacts would be detrimental to the amenity
and/or operations of such uses.

It would seem highly unlikely that a small proposed food and beverage use
located on this site some 250 metres from the school would have any impacts at
all on the amenity and functioning of the school. The school is a large and well
established use on a large site with a wide frontage to Walter Hay Drive and an
access off the Goodchap Street roundabout. There is a significant distance and
a substantial road between the two uses in question and hence we would be of
the view that either use will not suffer any negative effects from the operations
of the other.

At a broader level, it is considered that the Industrial zoning and the School
zoning being adjacent to each other would raise many more potential issues of
concern regarding amenity, however, the two appear to operate in harmony
and clearly has Council’s support through the zoning pattern.

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