2015-06-29 Attachment 1 to Item 4 General Committee Agenda - Noosa Design Principles

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Developers exchanged Alexandria Bay at Noosa National Park
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      1975
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             for a lease further south at Castaways
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Noosa Spit extended to protect Noosa Sound after cyclone David
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      1978
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             seriously eroded Noosa Main Beach




Noosa Design Manual 1986
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      1981   Noosa’s first traffic study identified the need for a Noosaville bypass
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      1981   Noosa Council head office moved to Tewantin from Pomona
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             First series of development control plans compiled for Hastings Street,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      1982
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Noosa Junction and Tewantin

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      1985   Town planning scheme for the whole of Noosa Shire was gazetted

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Council released the Noosa Design Manual which introduced
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      1986




Aerial image 2000
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             the notion of the Noosa ‘look and feel’
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Cooroy streetscape completed and became a model for designing in
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      1986
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             consultation with the community
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      1988   Noosa’s first strategic plan was gazetted
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      1990   Council’s shire wide ban on buildings in excess of four storeys gazetted
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Thousands rally against proposed development on the Marcus Dunes development
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      1994
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             lease area (later incorporated into Noosa National Park)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      2000   Cooroy Timber Mill closed
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      2003   Council decided against an artificial reef to protect Noosa Main Beach




Free Noosa campaign 2007
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      2004   Launch of the Shire’s Living Smart Building Awards (also known as the Glossies)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             “The Noosa Plan” replaced the existing planning scheme
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      2006
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             and strategic plan
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      2007   Noosa received UNESCO Biosphere Reserve
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Amalgamation of Noosa, Maroochy and Caloundra City Council to form
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      2008
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Sunshine Coast Regional Council

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Noosa Council formally de-amalgamated from
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      2014
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             the Sunshine Coast Regional Council


Flag raising 2014
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      2015   Queensland Treasury Corporation identified Noosa’s financial health as ‘sound’
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      2016   First electric buses launched in Noosa
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      2020   Noosa continued to be an idyllic place
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                           Timeline Source – Noosa Library Services
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             points in the history of Noosa.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      more deeply into Noosa’s past.




                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         AIATSIS Library - L 040.003/1 - www.aiatsis.gov.au
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 our heritage

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     There are several books that delve




                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        shady place, shadow, ghost or spirit.3
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       who tell us that the name Noosa is an

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       this area nguthuru2 – meaning shade,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          This timeline shows some interesting




                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      explorers and from Gubbi Gubbi elders1

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Anglicisation of the Indigenous word for
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     There have been several attempts to trace




                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  see the work of Community Linguist Jeanie Bell, in her Dictionary
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     the origin of the name Noosa but the most




                                                                                                                                                   across Australia there are many Indigenous words commencing with
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                of the Gubbi-Gubbi and Butchulla Language, March 1994, page 165,




                                                                      in which they are spoken, or the situation or event to which they refer.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    likely origin is found in the records of early




                                                                                                                                                 the ng - a single sound ng, like the ng in singer, not like the ng in finger


                                                                      meanings each of which is only clear within the context or the sentence
                                                                      many Australian Indigenous words are polymorphic – they have many