2019-03-12 Planning & Environment Committee Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                        12 MARCH 2019


Some of the Independent Living Apartment and Independent Living Unit layouts have been
amended internally to accommodate a third bedroom, in comparison to the one and two bedroom
dwellings which were originally approved. This results in an increase of bedrooms from 245 to
312 bedrooms. Within the Community Services Zone the Noosa Plan permits a maximum
population density of 320 persons per hectare exclusively for the purposes of Residential Aged
Care and 160 persons per hectare for any other form of Retirement & Special Needs Housing.
Population density within Retirement and Special Needs Housing is calculated as 1.5 persons
per unit regardless of the number of bedrooms within the dwelling unit. The proposed increase in
the number of bedrooms therefore remains consistent with the Noosa Plan requirements.
Car Parking
The amended plans include a change to the provision of car parking throughout the site and
results in a net loss of 4 car spaces.
The following table details the approved and proposed car parking throughout the site:

Use              Existing approval        Proposed                  Planning            Complies
                                                                    Scheme              (Current
                                                                                        proposal)
RAC              Staff: 54                Staff: 38                 24 spaces                
(96 beds)        Visitor: 20              Visitor: 10
                 Emergency vehicle: 1     Emergency vehicle: 1
                 Service vehicle: 1       Service vehicle: 1
                 Total: 76 spaces         Total: 50 car spaces
Central          Staff: 5                 Staff: 5                  Staff: 0                 
facilities and   Visitor: 16              Visitor: 14               Visitor: 5               
ILA’s            Residents: 7             Residents: 15             Residents: 15            
(15 ILA’s)       Emergency vehicle: 1     Emergency vehicle: 1      Emergency                
                                                                    vehicle: 1
                 Service vehicle: 1       Service vehicle: 1        Service vehicle:         
                                                                    0
ILA’s            Residents: 65            Residents: 54             Residents: 53            
(54)             Visitors: 17             Visitors: 14              Visitors: 14             
ILU’s            Residents: 74            Residents: 81             Residents: 69            
(53)             Visitors: 30             Visitors: 53              Visitor: 18              
TOTAL                      292                       288                  199

                                  Table 1: Car Parking Rates Comparison


The most significant reduction in car parking relates to the Residential Aged Care facility (RAC).
The existing approval provides car parking at a rate of 1 space per 1.32 beds. The proposed rate
is 1 space per 2 beds. The current Noosa Plan requires 1 space per 4 beds.
When the original application was assessed the planning scheme had a different method of
assessing the required number of car spaces for residential aged care. The number of car
spaces required was based on 1 space per 2 employees based on the maximum number of
employees engaged at any one time and 1 space per 5 beds or occupants of the premises and
resulted in a requirement for 29 car spaces for the RAC facility.
The proposed 1 space per 2 beds (48 spaces) exceeds the amount required by the Noosa Plan
at the time of the original approval and is double the amount required by the current planning
scheme.
It is noted that recent development approvals for aged care facilities have provided car parking
rates higher than required by the Noosa Plan. Specifically, Noosacare (Carramar) provided car
parking at a rate of 1 space per 1.1 beds and Arcare provided car parking at rate of 1 space per

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