Appendix A - SDAP - State Code 16 - Native vegetation clearing response

 Performance outcomes                                  Acceptable outcomes                             Response
                                                          into or across the watercourse or drainage
                                                          feature.
 PO84 Where clearing of vegetation in a regional       No acceptable outcome is prescribed.            Proposed clearing will not have significant residual
 ecosystem associated with a watercourse and/or                                                        impacts to any waterways.
 drainage feature does not maintain the
 composition, structure and function of the regional
 ecosystem, and cannot be avoided and has been
 mitigated, an offset is provided for any acceptable
 significant residual impact.
 Connectivity
 PO85 Regional ecosystems on the subject land          AO85.1 Clearing occurs in accordance with       Complies with AO85.1
 and any adjacent land, retain sufficient vegetation   reference table 3 in this code.                 In accordance with table 3.
 to maintain:                                                                                          Clearing (within a coastal region) does not occur in
 1. ecological processes; and                                                                          areas of vegetation that are less than 10 hectares;
 2. ensure the regional ecosystem remains in the                                                       or reduce the extent of vegetation to less than 10
     landscape despite threatening processes.                                                          hectares; or occur in areas of vegetation less than
                                                                                                       100 metres wide; or reduce the width of vegetation
                                                                                                       to less than 100 metres; or occur where the extent
                                                                                                       of vegetation on the subject lot(s) is reduced to, or
                                                                                                       less than, 30 per cent of the total area of the lot(s).

                                                                                                       Also remainder of subject land parcel is to be
                                                                                                       conserved under Noosa Council conservation
                                                                                                       program.
 Soil erosion if the local government is not the assessment manager for the development application
 PO86 Clearing does not result in accelerated soil     AO86.1 Clearing only occurs if an erosion and   AO86.1
 erosion within or outside the land the subject of the sediment control plan is developed and          An erosion and sediment control plan will be
 development application.                              implemented to prevent soil erosion and         developed and implemented for this project as part
                                                       instability resulting from the clearing.        of the environmental management plan to prevent
                                                                                                       soil erosion and instability resulting from the
                                                                                                       clearing.
 Salinity
 PO87 Clearing within 100 metres of a salinity         AO87.1 Clearing does not occur within 100       Complies with AO87.1
 expression area does not contribute to or             metres of a salinity expression area.
 accelerate land degradation through either of the
 following:
 1. waterlogging;
 2. the salinisation of groundwater, surface
       water or soil.

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