Minutes Ordinary Meeting 20 March 2025

ORDINARY MEETING MINUTES                                                       20 MARCH 2025



            QUESTION 2
            Will Council provide a few more sets of bollards along the eastern side of
            Kingfisher Drive, similar to those that have been in place for many years adjacent
            to Brolga Place?
            Response provided by Shaun Walsh Director Infrastructure Services
            The traffic controls along Kingfisher Drive were placed many years near ago to
            Brolga Place and are a mixture of bollards, white and red delineator posts and
            boulders. As outlined above, assessment of new controls would await the Parking
            Management Plan and Framework to provide a consistent set of guiding principles
            that can be applied across the shire. Any new controls are also regulated by
            Austroads Guidelines and Australian Standards AS 1742.2 (Traffic Control
            Devices for General Use) & AS 1906.2 (Retroreflective Devices for Road Traffic
            Control).


   8.2.     PATRICIA (PAT) SPICER

            QUESTION 1
            In the council development application for expansion of the cemetery in 2008, a
            vegetated buffer zone was included on all perimeter boundaries of the plan for the
            cemetery. This included Lake Macdonald Drive boundary. The Cooroy Cemetery
            Management Plan repeatedly refers to the highly attractive and strong sense of
            enclosure and privacy that is generated by the surrounding perimeter of mature
            vegetation, especially the mature camphor laurels, pines and eucalypts to the
            southern, western and northern boundaries and the mature pine plantation to the
            eastern boundary. These statements are made in 8.2, policy 33, 9.2, 9.4, policy 38
            to list a few. Council’s revised subdivision plan appears to be an artist’s impression
            as the plan shows the open space between Lot 2 and 3 joins the full angled section
            of my fenceline which is inaccurate as the open space is 20m wide and this
            fenceline is 29.5m. Open space is not a substitute for a buffer. As council is going
            to remove most of the vegetation to the east of the existing cemetery as well as to
            the south and north, how does council intend to address this improvident planning
            of no buffer zone on the plans of the proposed subdivision and the boundary of the
            land being set aside for cemetery use (Lot 100 and proposed Lot 1 and 2), on Lake
            Macdonald Drive for Lot 100 and the perimeter of Lot 3 on the southern side and
            western side as well as privacy fencing on the western side where this land shares
            a boundary with Lot 1 SP 118458 (my boundary) to ensure amenity for all residents
            as a matter of urgency
            Response provided by Kim Rawlings Director Strategy and Environment
            The revised subdivision plan provides the indicative layout of the lots. The full
            engineered project drawings are being finalised by the consultants in preparation
            for the upcoming tender process. Consultation with cemetery planning staff has
            occurred during all stages of this project and continues to regularly occur.
            Remediation of the lots will occur to the extent necessary to satisfy relevant
            environmental regulations to be able to remove the lots from the Environmental
            Management Register. Native trees on site will be retained where possible, noting
            some Gympie Messmate trees may need to be trimmed or removed if they are
            unsafe, or have suffered previous damage from storms. A native tree survey has
            been undertaken to inform this. The intention is the cemetery will not lose amenity
            from this project, with all site revegetation to occur in accordance with the
            Landscape Management Plan which will form part of the broad tender
            documents. All landscaping and revegetation work will consist of suitable local
            native species.