Submission 2a Woongar to Council

   Dear Assessment Managers

   RE: MCU23/0019 Development Application for Short Term Accommodation (STA)
   Situated at 2A Woongar Street (2A), Boreen Point (BP).

   I wish to forward a response in favour of the above application.

   After reading the 15 Submissions already delivered, I feel compelled to unravel
      some of the objections and concerns raised and provide some alternative
      considerations to those already proposed.

   Of the submissions made, only 3 households who live on the boundary along
      Woongar Street responded, a property which welcomes 17 neighbours in total.
      2 of those don’t necessarily object to STA rentals but have other concerns. There
      are 14 other properties on or adjacent to 2A, the majority with permanent
      residents, that did not respond. This is not an ideal outcome for decision making.
   Of these 17 neighbouring properties, a further 8 (making it 11 in total) are along the
      highest elevation on the Woongar St ridgeline boundary of 2A; 2 are rural blocks
      opposite on Woongar St; 1 is next door along the foreshore at 1 Urunga Parade
      and is also zoned rural residential; 3 are rural properties adjacent along the Lake
      Flat Road boundary. The zoning of 2A is not an anomaly and exists amongst other
      larger allotments on the outer limits of the village. It adjoins State land to the
      north, also zoned Environment & Conservation Zone.
   Of the submissions made, if you combine members of the same household with the
      same opinions, there are 11 only from a total of 300 households in the low-
      density zone in the village not including the 2 rural residential and 12 rural
      households bordering the village. It’s a very small response sample and not truly
      indicative of the village demographic at all.
   A further 3 household respondents are situated further along Woongar St behind
      the rural residential property next door to 2A, at 1 Urunga Parade with an
      easement separating them even further at Hector Street. These households are
      not directly impacted by the 2A property in any way whatsoever and are clearly
      distanced from the building envelope and access road, as well as buffered by the
      natural bushland between them.
   None of the other remaining 8 submissions (or 6 households) live anywhere near 2A,
      and some have never lived neighbouring a BP STA rental either, which implies
      these respondents are against STA rentals per se or are simply supporting their
      close-knit group of friends. From my experience 3 of these respondents are
      enthusiastically anti STA rentals come what may.

The statement ‘10 short stay houses. There is almost one short-stay house per street in
this village’ is not true. There is a total today of 9 approved historical STA rentals. Four
are positioned along the lake foreshore boulevard (Urunga Parade & Boreen Parade), 1
is in Woongar St with 2 street frontages being Woongar St/Urunga Parade. One is in
Laguna Street opposite the hotel. One large 5-bedroom house is in Mango Lane and
has been for years without complaint, and 2 are in Toolara Street. So, of the 17 streets in
Boreen Point, only 6 streets (Urunga, Boreen, Woongar, Laguna, Toolara and Mango)
have STA house rentals. The motel has an additional STA rental also along the
foreshore, but it is attached to their motel unit business, and nobody seems to object to
this setup which attracts a very similar clientele. There are other holiday homes