RESPONSE TO SARA IR - Attachment 1A - RFA24-059-SARA IR Response 310725

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Table 16.3: Public safety, relevant infrastructure activities and / or consequential development of IPA approval
Performance outcomes                                                   Acceptable outcomes                          Response
Clearing avoids and minimises impacts
PO4 Clearing of vegetation and adverse impacts of clearing             No acceptable outcome is prescribed.            The proposed clearing is within the exempted
vegetation do not occur unless the application has demonstrated that                                                    clearing area and as such no additi0onal or
the clearing and the adverse impacts of clearing have been:                                                             adverse impacts would occur around the
                                                                                                                        proposed development.
    1. reasonably avoided; or
                                                                                                                       The clearing of the exempted clearing area
    2. reasonably minimised where it cannot be reasonably
                                                                                                                        has been avoided as the necessary clearing
       avoided.
                                                                                                                        for a necessary firebreak is such that it
                                                                                                                        provides a maximum radiant heat flux
                                                                                                                        exposure of 29kW/m2 for all infrastructure
                                                                                                                        within the existing and proposed
                                                                                                                        development.
                                                                                                                       The proposed necessary clearing to achieve
                                                                                                                        an acceptable level of bushfire has been
                                                                                                                        reduced from 2,116.84 sq.m. to 801.81 sq.m.
                                                                                                                       This clearing cannot be reasonably avoided
                                                                                                                        in this location
Clearing associated with wetlands
PO5 Clearing of vegetation within a natural wetland and/or within      AO5.1 Clearing does not occur in a natural      The proposed necessary clearing is within
100 metres of the defining bank of a natural wetland maintains the     wetland or within 100 metres of the              the mapped Regional Ecosystem 12.5.3
composition, structure and function of any regional ecosystem          defining bank of any natural wetland.            which is not mapped as a wetland regional
associated with any natural wetland to protect all of the following:                                                    ecosystem.
                                                                       OR
    1. bank stability by protecting against bank erosion;                                                              A natural wetland is mapped approximately
                                                                       AO5.2 Clearing within 100 metres of the
                                                                                                                        60 metres from the proposed clearing and as
    2. water quality by filtering sediments, nutrients and other       defining bank of any natural wetland:
                                                                                                                        such no clearing will occur within 10 metres