Not properly made submission (late & duplicate) Ann Jackson MCU13/0171

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                               RE: Application No. MCU 13/0171


     375 lake Macdonald Drive
     lake Macdonald 4563
     22/10/2013

     The Assessment Manager
     Sunshine Coast Regional Council.


     Dear Sir/Madam


     I hereby lodge my objection to the above Application on the following grounds.


        1. As this will affect for many years into the future, this MCU should rightly be
             assessed by the incoming Noosa Shire Council. It is therefore outside the
             jurisdiction of the existing, and soon to be defunct, Sunshine Coast
             Regional Council as it is now in Caretaker status and major decisions such
             as this can result in lengthy expensive court challenges. That would be

             detrimental to the rate payers and possibly leave the current council open
             to large legal and compensation payouts.


        2.   Historically Cooroy had industrial activities saw mills, butter factory, brick
             works, transport depots, scattered throughout the residential areas. Good
             Town Planning however acknowledges that industrial activity should be in
             separate designated areas to provide amenity to those residential
             lifestyles. large areas of land have been set aside, already sub-divided,
             appropriately zoned, and facilities in place at tax payers expense for such
             industrial activities as described in the proposal. This is a proposed move
             of a "back to the future" idea. Because less strychnine is better than a lot
             of strychnine does not justify small doses. The same with traffic flows.
             Point (2)




        3. The cessation of the vehicular traffic from the clay trucks has been a boon
             for residential amenity. To reintroduce 24 hour truck and vehicle traffic on
             a road that services residential and  quiet recreational use is
             unsatisfactory. Safety issues for cyclists, school children on bikes, walkers,
             horse riders and current residential road users will be exacerbated. The
             existing road is barely capable and most unsuitable for the traffic it now
             carries. Its width, topography and base that potholes after every decent
             downpour is grossly unsuitable for a renewal of commercial vehicular
             traffic and maintenance will incur a heavy cost penalty to the new Council
             and ratepayers.


        4. The future intentions alluded to in the MCU and specified in Point (6)
             simply reinforces the negative aspects of increased vehicular flows further
             out along lake Macdonald Drive. The same road design flaws will simply