Planning Response letter to Council Information Request · MCU18/0015

   Response – Vegetation clearing associated with the proposed development will be limited to the
   building envelopes nominated for the two dwelling houses and the building footprint nominated
   for the units. The Bushfire Assessment Report included at Attachment 7 shows a vegetation
   setback to be provided to unmanaged vegetation to facilitate a construction level of BAL 19 for
   units 1 and 2 and BAL 29 for Units 3-12 and the dwelling houses. Trees within this setback zone
   are able to be retained subject to management of the canopy understorey occurring. It is proposed
   that the bushfire management procedures would form part of the Community Management
   Statement for the dwellings. Any future rehabilitation plan prepared would be mindful of the need
   for planting species to be low flammable species to minimise the risk of bushfire risk to the site
   and surrounds.


   Item 20 – Amended Site Comparison Plan to 2006 Proposal detailing the vegetation
   removal/disturbance as per point 19.


   Response – The architectural plan series included at Attachment 1 provides a comparison to the
   previous development scheme and the current development scheme. A comparison against the
   2006 scheme was provided in the original plan series submitted with the application.


   Item 21 – Copy of operational works approval issued by the state for vegetation removal including
   detail of the offset arrangements.
   Item 22 – Assessment of the previous offset arrangements against those required as a result of the
   proposed development.


   Response – As part of the previous vegetation clearing approval issued by the State government
   (a copy of which is included at Attachment 9) a vegetation offset was required to be secured on
   the adjoining Viridian site. Whilst the previous development concept did not go ahead, we
   understand that the vegetation offset required by the State government approval was completed
   on the adjoining Viridian site and is shown on the Registered Plan included at Attachment 10.


   In relation to the current proposal, the Ecological Assessment proposed by James Warren &
   Associates included at Attachment 6 undertakes a comprehensive assessment of current state
   legislation and determines that the proposed development does not require the provision of
   offsets.




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