2020-07-16 SM Agenda - Item 1 - Attachment 5 - Final Noosa Plan 2020 Part 8-10 Schedules & Appendix

  Column 1                              Column 2
  Activity group                        Uses
                                        exemptions for firebreaks or fire management lines. Operational works for necessary
                                        firebreaks or fire management lines is accepted development, subject to requirements
                                        specified in Section 20A.

  Essential community infrastructure    essential community infrastructure means any one or more of the following:­
                                        (a)    emergency services infrastructure;
                                        (b)    emergency shelters;
                                        (c)    police facilities;
                                        (d)    hospitals and associated facilities; and
                                        (e)    stores of valuable records or heritage items
                                        (f)    power stations and substations;
                                        (g)    major switch yards;
                                        (h)    communication facilities;
                                        (i)    sewage treatment plants;
                                        (j)    water treatment plants.

  Extractive resources                  extractive resources means natural deposits of sand, gravel, quarry rock, clay and soil
                                        extracted from the earth’s crust and processed for use in construction. The term does not
                                        include minerals under the Mineral Resources Act 1989 such as metal ores, coal, clay for
                                        ceramic purposes, foundry sand, limestone and silica sand mined and used for their
                                        chemical properties, and rock mined in block or slab form for building or monumental
                                        purposes.

  Extractive resource separation area   extractive resource separation area shown on a Extractive Resources Overlay Map, being
                                        the area surrounding the resource/processing area required to maintain separation from
                                        people and land uses potentially affected by impacts such as noise, dust and ground
                                        vibrations of existing and or future extractive operations in the resource/processing area.

  Fire access track                     fire access track means an area free of trees and able to be easily accessed by fire fighting
                                        vehicles.

  Firebreak                             firebreak means an area of land cleared of non­fire retardant vegetation of sufficient width to
                                        minimise the risk of spread of bushfire.

  Fire management activity              fire management activity means the controlled use of fire for pasture management, to
                                        manage the risk of wild fire and to assist with the maintenance of ecological processes in
                                        vegetation communities that are ecologically adapted to fire.

  Foreshore                             foreshore means the land in the Noosa Shire lying between the high water mark and low
                                        water mark at ordinary spring tides and controlled by the Noosa Shire under the Local
                                        Government Act 2009.

  Forest practice                       Forest practice means planting trees, or managing, felling and removing standing trees, on
                                        freehold land or indigenous land on which the State does not own the trees, for an ongoing
                                        forestry business in a—
                                        (a)    plantation; or
                                        (b)    native forest, if, in the native forest—
                                               (i)    all the activities are conducted in a way that is consistent with the accepted
                                                      development vegetation clearing code applying to conducting a native forest
                                                      practice; or
                                               (ii)   if the code does not apply to the activities, all the activities are conducted in a
                                                      way that—
                                                      (A)    ensures restoration of a similar type, and to the extent, of the removed
                                                             trees; and



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