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Jn its second paragraph, section 17.2.1.4 indicates a desire for common
management to be achieved by development on each of the sites. It goes on to
indicate that subdivision of the lots is not intended. In. this sense, the Strategic
Plan is understood to be indicating a desire to provide a common

‘management regime over each of the sites and to avoid the management

problems that arise when land is fragmented by different ownership.

In the middle 1990s when the Strategic Plan was prepared, there were indeed
significant management issues and led to some significant problems
particularly in more remote locations. Since that time, the tools available to
provide better management have been enhanced significantly in Queensland.
These tools include body corporate community management statements and
covenants. Whilst the Noosa North Shore Eco-Tourism Portal site is proposed
to be reconfigured, it will make use of these tools to ensure that the
management goals of the Strategic Plan are achieved. This is necessary for the
facility in any case as for example, administration for the whole is to be carried
out from the West Visitor Precinct, effluent disposal is to be carried out for the
whole site from the East Visitor Precinct, etc. In addition, Petrac has
contracted to purchase the Noosa North Shore Retreat and is seeking to
provide complementary operations with a number of commen management
features with the subject site.

For these reasons, it is considered that the proposal meets the intent of the
Strategic Plan and in this respect certainly meets the objective to which the
implementation criteria apply.

In the third paragraph of section 17.2.1.4, nature and scale of. visitor
accommodation and services is discussed. The Plan. indicates that these
elements have been defined by the Noosa North Shore DCP, other planning
scheme provisions and {in reference to the Noosa North Shore Retreat site)
existing uses at the time of commencement. In the case of the southern site, it
is the DCP and the other planning scheme provisions (namely the zoning of
the land and the plan of development associated with that zoning) that are
intended to guide the nature and scale of development. The Noosa North
Shore Eco-Tourism Portal falls within the population density of the zoning of
the land and has been designed to meet the intent of the DCP and Strategic
Plan.

Section 17.4 - Open Space and Environmental Issues also relates to the site, as
it relates to the Open Space — Conservation and Waterway Protection designation.
The section states:

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1742.2 The Open Space ~ Conservation and Waterway Protection designation has
been used to identify land with environmental values:
© — Of the highest order;
2 Which warrant conservation status; or
= Which is in or should be included in public tenure.

17.4.2.3

17.4.2.4 The intent for the areas ... is to maintain the environmental values of the land
to the exclusion of development which would have impact on those values,