MCU15/0095 & REC15/0022 PM Submission Object - Alison Asher - Principal Submitter - Petition

                                                                            practice demands that service station facilities be set
                                                                            back a far greater distance from the School.

   2. The nearest              structure       on     the      school       The relevance           of this statement         is unclear          and if
        boundary        is the       pump         house for the             anything demonstrates            the proximity       of the proposed
        school pool                                                         service station         to the School pool facilities            used by
                                                                            toddlers and young children.

   3. The          proposed             service       station          is   Visual distinction        is the least of the concerns that are
        orientated          away from         the school and                associated       with     the   location      of a service           station
        towards         the      Eumundi-           Noosa       Road        adjacent       to,     indeed    adjoining,     a School          and        its
        frontage,           providing       visual       distinction        associated health and physical education facilities.
        between both sites.

   4. The service             station       refuelling        area     is   The       Applicant       provides      no    justification          for     its
        sufficiently         distanced       from     the      school       assertion       that      the   Development          "is      sufficiently
        boundary which is greater than 25m.                                 distanced from the school boundary which is greater
                                                                            than 25m."


                                                                            In the contrary         we have demonstrated               elsewhere         in
                                                                            this document           that international     and Australian              best
                                                                            practice demands that service station facilities be set
                                                                            back a far greater distance from the School.

   S.   All vehicle access relating to the service                          The relevance of this statement               is once again unclear.
        station      and       future       proposed           Lot     2    The access being off Eumundi-Noosa                    Road, which is
        development            is obtained         via Eumundi-             the same as the access to the School and only a short
        Noosa Road which is more than suitably                              distance      away creates        the    potential      for increased
        distanced       from        the     school      access off          traffic     queuing       and   obstruction       along        the     short
        Walter Hay Drive.                                                   stretch of road between the two entrances.

   6. A dedicated              pedestrian         pathway       from        Again the relevance of this statement                 is unclear. The
        Walter       Hay       Drive      is proposed.           This       pathway       provides      no additional       protection           for the
        pathway         connects          Walter        Hay     Drive       School children.         Indeed it provides further            unwanted
        directly       to     the    site     and       the     store       opportunity          for children to access the shop, which is
        building,      thus      reducing         any     potential         undoubtedly           the main purpose of the development,
        conflict        between             pedestrians          and        that is to encourage the school children to purchase
        vehicles.                                                           from the shop and increase the profits to the owner
                                                                            at the expense            of - and threat        to -         the School
                                                                            children.


The Applicant       has also failed to respond seriously and comprehensively                                to Council's request for further
information      regarding the Airborne Hazards in proximity to the School identified                                  by Council as an area of
critical importance          to the Development             application:


   Applicant's      Response                      Objectors'     Response

   1. Benzene as an active                        The Applicant provides mere idle assertion in the face of the evidence



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