DUPLICATE PM Submission Object - Peregian Beach Community Association - MCU16/0153 & REC16/0041

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                     9.4 Summary

                     PBCAI considers the Engineering Report to be inadequate in respect to
                     multiple issues including construction impacts, stormwater, flooding and
                     location of services.

                     10. Traffic

                     10.1 Increased Congestion
                     The DA proposes Carparking & Visitor Carparking of 115 spaces in total
                            67 with the Houses & 37 with the Hotel
                            4 in the west of the centre of the ring road
                            4 on the southside of the ring road behind the IGA
                            3 outside the security gate of the Hotel.

                     This will result in an increase of 115 vehicles by the number of vehicular
                     movements per day over Sandpiper Lane, increasing the use of the Peregian
                     Beach roundabout for vehicles going both north and south. This will add to the
                     number of vehicular movements per day over Sandpiper Drive arising from
                     the IGA Supermarket development without any enhancement of the ability of
                     Sandpiper Lane to cope with the number of vehicular movements per day.

                     The David Low traffic at Sandpiper Lane and the Peregian Beach roundabout
                     is already very heavy and PBCAI questions the ability of this section of David
                     Low Way to carry such an increase of traffic without creating serious problems
                     to traffic flow and safety. Since completion of the IGA development, traffic
                     congestion has materially increased at the roundabout, along the adjacent
                     sections of David Low, in Heron Street and in the village in general. At peak
                     times standing traffic queues form at all accesses to the roundabout with
                     negative impacts on the amenity of the village. For example, at 1pm on
                     Thursday 16 April 2017, the traffic was backed up for several hundred metres
                     along the southern approach of the David Low Way, and down Heron Street
                     into the village.

                     The addition of further traffic from the proposed development risks creating an
                     accident black spot and a source of serious congestion that would be hard to
                     mitigate in future.

                     PBCAI cannot understand why the Traffic Report does not address access
                     out of the property, which includes the first stage of development, the IGA
                     Supermarket carpark access on the site. The intersection inside the IGA
                     Supermarket is already difficult and congested before it even gets out onto
                     Sandpiper Lane or David Low Way.


                     10.2 Traffic modelling / forecasting
                     This has proven historically to be very imprecise and inaccurate, particularly in
                     recent years.




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