2021-08-16 General Committee Meeting Agenda

GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                             16 AUGUST 2021


iii.     My concern is that without satisfactory improvements to the existing formal set-down / pick-up
         areas / zones on the site and how they operate, that the increased peak period set-down /
         pick-up activity at the main area off the Goodchap Street roundabout, as a result of the informal
         area no longer being available, will again cause queuing to extend back unsatisfactorily into
         the Goodchap Street roundabout.
iv.      Those concerns would likely be overcome if the existing internal staff parking area is retained
         and used for overflow set-down / pick-up activity, or if improvements to the existing main set-
         down / pick-up area are implemented along the lines of those suggested in Section 7 of the
         HTE report together with preparation and implementation of an appropriate operational
         management plan detailing how the set-down / pick-areas would be managed to ensure that
         queuing back into the Goodchap St roundabout does not occur.
v.       If Council agrees to elimination of the internal staff parking area, without appropriate
         improvements to on-site set-down / pick-up areas together with implementation of an
         appropriate parking and set-down area management plan, then the opportunity to have those
         improvements implemented in the future will likely be lost. This is because the College could
         at the time of future applications then simply say that they are not increasing the on-site student
         population such that the then existing parking and set-down areas do not need to be modified
         / improved. That is, the most appropriate time for Council to seek improvements to the existing
         set-down / pick-up areas and on-site parking management, is prior to removal of the existing
         on-site staff parking area.
In response to this request and subsequent to discussions between Council’s consulting traffic
engineer and the applicant’s traffic engineer the applicant agreed to undertake works to upgrade the
drop off/pick up/ carpark configuration accessed from the Goodchap Street/Eumundi Noosa Road
roundabout entry and for the provision of an internal one way vehicular link from the new staff car
park to the Goodchap Street/Eumundi Noosa Road roundabout exit. The following images detail the
concept drawing for the upgrade works and the two options for the internal one way vehicular link.




       Figure 7 – Concept drawing for upgrade to the drop off/pick up/ carpark configuration accessed from the
                                Goodchap St/Eumundi Noosa Rd roundabout entry



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