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    ▪   Immediately adjacent proposed buildings should either be fully cleared and regularly
        maintained (i.e. lawn) or retain trees as clumps or islands and provide a tree canopy
        cover of less than 15% and tree canopies should be located greater than 2 metres from
        any part of the roofline of a building. Any trees should have lower limbs removed up
        to a height of 2 metres above the ground.
    ▪   Any landscaping performed on site shall maintain the APZ effectively free of available
        fuel. Landscaping plants may be used in this area so long as they are selected for their
        low combustibility, by virtue of high moisture content, low volatile oil content, high
        leaf mineral levels, large fleshy leaves, and absence of shedding bark. They should be
        placed so as to not provide either vertical or horizontal connectedness of plant
        material, and avoid overhanging rooflines or contact with flammable parts of
        buildings. Any planted trees should be of species which grow to over 2m, to maintain
        separation between lower canopy and the ground.
    ▪   Turf is to be maintained regularly to reduce the potential for long grass to fuel an
        advancing fire toward buildings. It is recommend to manage understorey vegetation
        for a minimum of 20m adjacent proposed structures to effectively collapse a fire front.
It is noted that a clear setback is currently apparent to the northwest through north.
Consequently, management of vegetation in this direction is expected to be limited to a small
number of trees and associated mid and lower strata vegetation. Setbacks to the southwest
through south to southeast is less well established, and although hazard in this direction is
considered relatively lower than other elevations, setbacks are less well formed currently.
Consequently, it is considered the majority of vegetation impacts associates with the
proposed development will be in this area in order to achieve appropriate setbacks as detailed
above.

3.4 Emergency Access & Egress
New developments in bushfire prone areas should be serviced by safe access/exit points for
both residents and emergency services personnel in the event of an emergency. The
development is to avoid entrapment potential, provide safe and effective access for
emergency services vehicles and safe evacuation routes for occupants.

The Noosa Plan 2017, Division 9 – Natural Hazards Overlays Code – 12.36: Vehicle Access and
Fire Trails, O9: Firebreaks and Fire Access tracks prescribes (Outcome 9) ‘(a) adequate access
for fire-fighting and other emergency vehicles; and (b) adequate width to minimise the risk of
fire cross over’. S9.1 Probable solution (a) refers to a 20m wide firebreak around the
perimeter of the development, and Probable Solution (b) refers to the establishment of ‘fire
access tracks between the development and surrounding vegetated land that’.

A 20m wide fire break is not considered achievable given the nature and use of the site, site
extent and vegetation setbacks able to be achieved. Consequently, establishment of
appropriate fire access tracks are considered achievable and the preferred outcome for the
site. These fire access tracks are able to be factored into the required vegetation setbacks as
detailed in Section 3.2. Recommendations for access tracks are as follows:
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