Not properly made submission (late) M D'Addario & A Kadacik MCU12/0184

BlackFellows creek for instance is one of the last remaining creeks in the region to still
have platypus. This clean creek runs through our property and is an integral and beautiful
part of our daily lives. We are dedicated to improving and maintaining it’s health.

Visitors often comment on how quaint and special Ridgewood is with it’s majestic tall
gumtrees, quiet pretty country roads, valley views and clear river. At night, the starry skies
are breathtaking.


The natural beauty of Ridgewood deserves to continue to be enjoyed, protected and
supported by its residents and the broader community, not disregarded and damaged.

We are following through with the environmental initiatives recommended by
you the council.

The large scale farming enterprise proposed by the applicant is in direct conflict with the
sustainable principles and practices of the area and council planning. And stands to do
significant damage to our local environment and also affect, with the potential to destroy,
the appeal and effectiveness of the more sensitive and sustainable low impact business
operations in the area.

The applicant’s proposal does not offer a win-win outcome for the residents of Ridgewood
and the broader community. It is clearly a win for one resident and a huge lose for
everyone else and the environment of the area. This kind of outcome is therefore
unsustainable and not in keeping with the South East Queensland Regional Plan
2009-2031.

We trusted that low impact zoning of properties in our area, by our council, would not be
altered just because of one person’s desires. We trusted council would honour its own
planning guidelines. Those development parameters are there for a reason: to
protect. They need to be respected and upheld, and only modified after extensive public
consultation and acceptance, otherwise they mean nothing. Most residents of Ridgewood
live in the area for the reasons that are now seriously under threat from this development.


Many of the submissions have highlighted important concerns we share regarding the
environmental and economic consequences of the applicant’s proposal. We wish to
highlight also the very real social and emotional consequences of such a proposal.

Imagine choosing to live in a quiet area of Cooroy, on a small rural road, to then be
subjected to living with 4-5 semi-trailers rattling by your place a day or with the daily
stench that a Poultry Farm such as this creates? Imagine the emotional and physical
impact of living in ~.once beautiful, peaceful and unique area made unsustainable,
stressful and unhealthy, with odour, noise, environmental and visual pollution?


We were told by a friend who lived near a poultry farm operation in NSW, similar in size to
that proposed by the applicant, that the stench was horrendous and travelled on the
breeze for kilometres. She said the locals referred to the odour as "the smell of death"
because it was so bad. The wind cannot be controlled. The wind-borne odour can easily
come over the ridges and settle in our nearby valleys where many of us reside. We do not
deserve such a daily reality.