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caused by Noosa U3A members. This issue has since been resolved and is evidence that Noosa U3A’s
use of Michell House does not cause undue problems in the neighbourhood.

PLANNING FOR CHANGE OF USE

Discussions have been held with Council staff and Town Planning consultants, Martoo Consulting Pty
Ltd and PTT Peco! Traffic and Transport traffic engineers, to understand Council’s needs before
submitting a development application. It is not the intention of the U3A Noosa proposal to change the
services it provides to its members but to change the syllabus, carparking facilities and use of external
accommodation to comply with Council’s planning scheme with special emphasis on car parking.

Surveys have been carried out to determine the numbers of members and staff on site at any time,
carparking needs and space required to provide the classes required by its members. The surveys for
attendances and accommodation used during mid-Semester 1 are attached as Appendix A and a
carparking/travel survey as Appendix C. It should be noted that the data for the attendance survey
was compiled from class attendances for the week of the 30" of May to the 4" of June 2018 using
class levies received. The dataset table shows the maximum number of members on site at any one
time during the survey was 109 (1130 to 1200 on Tuesday 1* of May).

A further dataset was generated for the month of June 2018 to verify the reduction in use of Michell
House after changes were made to offload some classes to external facilities. The dataset and
summary are attached at Appendix B which shows the maximum of members on site at any time was
reduced from 109 in the May survey to 61 in the June survey.

From this information Noosa U3A has been able to analyse and plan changes to the subjects offered,
set maximum attendees allowed for each subject, arrange the addition of external classroom facilities
and arrange appropriate off-road car parking leases. Those changes will be implemented for Semester
2 starting in late July 2018.

PLANNED CHANGES FOR SEMESTER 2 AND FUTURE OPERATIONS.

The attendance and accommodation data tabled in Appendices A and B revealed classroom space that
was unused as well as class sizes that were over-subscribed. In preparing the syllabus plan for
Semester 2, classes requiring floor space such as Yoga, Scottish Country Dancing, Line Dancing and
choral rehearsals, have been moved to external facilities such as the Masonic Hall and Catholic Church.
All these external facilities are rented and have adequate off-road carparking. The timetable for
Semester 2 is attached as Appendix D.

In summary, class sizes have been capped, others have been moved off-site and any future classes will
be encouraged to use The J complex at Noosa Junction and CQU facilities. Not all these changes have
been popular with our student members and tutors, many of whom have a close affinity to Michell
House, and have as a result, chosen not to attend classes sited elsewhere. Nevertheless, the changes
to the Semester 2 timetable have resulted in a reduction in the maximum number of student and tutor
members on site at any time to 47 and 2 volunteer staff; a total of 49. Table 1 shows that Council car
parking requirements are a maximum of 55 students on site at any one time.

Table 1 COUNCIL CAR PARKING REQUIREMENT

 

 

 

 

Land Use Scale | Rate Requirement
Adult Education 2 1 space per employee 2
55 | 1 space per 2.5 students of driving age 22
Total 24