01022023 Cox & Pisarski re MCU 220118

resident Koala population and create further anguish for residents. How can this proposal be even
considered when Noosa has a Koala Conservation Plan in place to help bring back wild koalas in the
Noosa Biosphere Reserve and when they are listed as endangered?

There is an 80% decline in the number of koalas across Southeast Queensland in the last ten years.
Council’s own site notes that habitat loss is one of the main problems in the ongoing human
destruction of koalas. There are few opportunities to preserve koalas in the wild in Southeast
Queensland. The Mayor and the councillors have such an opportunity in rejecting this proposal.

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Council approval of such a proposal can only weaken the residents’ confidence and trust in Council
and the hope we hold about their capacity to project residents’ interests in maintaining the
attractiveness and comfort of the area we have chosen to make our home and for which we pay
rates.

Therefore, this proposal should be rejected since, over the past 4 years we and our fellow residents
have experienced the destruction of our residential amenity with the expansion of Short-Term
Accommodation in our streets across the Shire.

It is impossible to build community or enjoy our homes when a significant proportion of houses in
areas designated as residential:
       • are populated by a never-ending parade of people who are there for two or three days only
          to be soon replaced by another group in party mode
       • encourage visitors who have no long-term interest in the community and do not pay rates
       • host constant parties with streams of strangers roaming the streets at all hours
       • have street scapes ruined by rubbish bins being put out any day of the week and left out all
          week
       • experience constant noise pollution from leaf-blowers and the like
       • have a constant steam of maintenance and other traffic impacting on noise, parking and
          safety

Those who have turned their houses into STA profits, both leally and illegally, have no interest in
actual residents’ amenity. These conditions result in alienation, stress and anxiety in our own homes
where we should be able to build community and find peace and safety. The plan to build 16 STA
Eco- Cabins near to our homes will make these matters more acute for voting resident ratepayers.

This proposal is in no way beneficial or acceptable to the residents of Noosa Shire who live, work and
raise families here and who care about the wildlife sharing this special place with us. Will Noosa
Mayor and councillors explain to our grandchildren why they opted to allow it?

If Noosa Mayor and Councillors have a social conscience, they cannot possibly approve this
development application.

Yours faithfully,

Dr Leonie Cox and Mr Adrian Pisarski.
1st February, 2023.




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