ACOVER Castaways Information Request Response PC 10-11-17

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12. Provide draft covenant and easement documents that clearly define the administration and
       ongoing maintenance responsibilities of the relevant areas.
Issue - Site access and traffic
David Low Way is an arterial road. The Transport Roads and Drainage Code at O7, specifies that
roads are to be planned and designed to support the hierarchy and functional aspects identified in
Sections 2 and 3 of PSP5. PSP5 states at 2.1 (iv) that general access to arterial roads shall not be
permitted, and that access shall be indirect via service roads. The proposed access onto David Low
Way would thus need to be designed to satisfy road access requirements, rather than driveway
access requirements for sight distances and functionality. PSP5 at Section 3.10 also specifies that
property access shall be located to achieve sight distances as outlined in the Austroads guidelines.
The TTM report has assessed sight lines at the new driveway based on the requirements of
Australian Standard AS/NZS 2890.1 -2004 for a 70km/hr design speed. This is a substantially lower
sight distance requirement than required by the Austroads guidelines. Note also that the TTM
report has not strictly achieved the sight line requirements of the Australian Standard because it has
not measured the sight line to the closest lane edge, which would increase the sight line
requirement suggested in the TTM report even when measured using the lower requirements of the
Australian Standard.
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13. Assess and achieve Safe Intersection Sight Distance requirements at the proposed driveway as
       defined by the Austroads guidelines, consistent with the requirements of Section 3.10 of PSP5,
       based on the design speed of David Low Way determined from a speed survey.
14. Modify the proposed site access design so that a HRV can turn into the site from wholly within
       the proposed BAL left turn lane, without using the adjacent through lane, so that the vehicle
       can wait in that lane clear of through traffic, if there is another vehicle waiting to depart from
       the access at that same time. Otherwise the site access should be redesigned to
       accommodate turning to the access by a HRV at the same time as a car is departing the
       site. Also, the taper for the proposed BAL treatment needs to be lengthened to comply with
       Austroads standards.
15. Modify the proposed vertical alignment of the proposed access to David Low Way, to satisfy
       the grading requirements of AS/NZS 2890.1-2004, particularly in achieving satisfactory grades
       across the verge and on the approaches to the existing pedestrian / cycle path from both
       directions on the driveway (as vehicles using the driveway will need to give way to pedestrians
       / cyclists on that path). The proposed alterations to the existing vertical alignment of the
       existing path should also be identified.
16. Prepare a plan identifying refuse bin pad storage locations for each lot (2 wheelie bins per lot),
       together with the path of a refuse vehicle to/from and within the site, satisfactorily servicing
       each bin location. Visitor parking should also be identified on that plan (satisfying a minimum
       requirement of 0.5 visitor spaces per lot) clear of those refuse collection requirements and
       clear of potential driveways to the individual sites. Titling arrangements would also need to
       be clarified for the visitor parking to ensure that visitor spaces are available for all 6 lots,
       rather than being associated with specific allotments. Visitor parking would need to be clearly
       designated and signed as being for visitors only. This is important because overflow parking
       from the site will not be acceptable.


1.    DUE DATE FOR RESPONSE TO INFORMATION REQUEST

The due date for providing the requested information is 7 December 2017. Please advise Council of
your response to this information request in accordance with section 13 of the Development
Assessment Rules.

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