2017-02-07 Planning and Environment Committee Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                7 FEBRUARY 2017



6                        LOCAL GOVERNMENT INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN (TRANSPORT - DSS)
DOCUMENT INFORM AT ION




Author                              Infrastructure Assessment Coordinator, Oddbjorn Ludvigsen
                                    Planning & Infrastructure Department

Index                               ECM/Subject/Local Government Infrastructure Plan (LGIP)

Attachments                         1.    LGIP DSS (Transport)


EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This report presents the staff review and proposed update of the Transport network Desired
Standards of Service (DSS) for updating the current PIP to a LGIP.

RECOMMENDATION
That Council note the report by the Infrastructure Assessment Coordinator to the Planning &
Environment Committee Meeting dated 7 February 2017 and approve the Desired Standards of
Service (DSS) for the Transport network provided in Attachment 1 for proceeding with the new
Local Government Infrastructure Plan (LGIP) under The Noosa Plan 2006.


REPORT
This LGIP report presents the staff review of the Desired Standards of Service (DSS) for the
Transport network for the new LGIP for Council’s review and endorsement.

The purpose of the DSS is to provide a high level summary of the key planning and design
standards for a network. For the Transport network, the standards typically may relate to:
                        local government trunk roads, such as:
                         o    the minimum level of service (or maximum volume of traffic);
                         o    maximum catchment size;
                         o    intersection spacing and design speed for each type of road;
                        local government trunk road intersections, such as:
                         o    maximum control delays and degree of saturation for each type of intersection
                        pedestrian and cycle paths, such as:
                         o    typical location;
                         o    minimum widths; and
                         o    design speed of different types of paths
The current PIP and former guidelines previously permitted transport infrastructure to be treated
separately and detailed as individual networks i.e. a Road network, a Pathway network and a
Public Transport network.
In contrast, the current Statutory Guideline 03/14 now advocates:
                        a single “transport” network assumption (rather than 3 individual Roads, Pathways & Public
                         Transport networks); and




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