Planning Report Kabara

                                                                                             proposal report




2.0 Site details
2.1 Site description
The subject site comprises a rhomboid shaped lot located at 20 Topaz Street, Cooroy and described
as Lot 102 on SP236318. The site has an area of 1.8 hectares and has frontage of 182 metres to
Topaz Street and 104 metres to Cooroy Mountain Road.

The site is currently occupied by the Kabara facility operated by the not-for-profit organisation Noosa
Care.


Table 1: Site description
 Site                       Description
 characteristic

 Existing land use          Residential Care Facility known as Kabara

 Existing structures        Kabara facility includes various one and two storey buildings including:
                                        Kauri Lodge – single storey building
                                        Cedar Lodge – two storey building
                                        Banksia and Wattle Lodge – single storey building
                            37 on site carparking spaces

 Frontage         and 182 metres to Topaz Street
 access
                            104 metres to Cooroy Mountain Road

 Topography       and Site has view to creek running along southern boundary.
 views

 Existing vegetation        area of Melaleuca woodland and wetland vegetation around the creek area.

 Existing waterways         Lot 2 on RP177554:The site is bounded to the east by a remnant wetland and
                            park.




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