2016-12-06 Planning & Environment Committee Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                               6 DECEMBER 2016


REPORT
This second LGIP report presents the staff review and proposal of the Planning Assumptions for
the new LGIP for Council’s review and endorsement which will guide the “trunk” infrastructure
planning of the new LGIP up to the PIA time horizon to 2031.
The LGIP must state assumptions about population and employment growth and the type, scale,
location and timing of development. Collectively, these are termed as the planning assumptions
whereby the details required must be provided in the format contained in the Statutory Guideline
03/14 Appendix A (LGIP template).
Together with the Desired Standards of Service (DSS), the planning assumptions provide the
basis for “trunk” infrastructure planning as well as providing important considerations for local
governments when determining whether to impose a condition for the payment of additional trunk
infrastructure costs. The DSS for each individual “trunk” network will be reported separately
following Council’s endorsement of this report on the planning assumptions.
1.    Unitywater’s Demand Modeller and Tracking Tool (DMaTT)
In the report to the Planning and Organisation Committee Meeting of 20 May 2014, Council was
provided with an update on the Utility Model and review of Unitywater’s Interim Connection Policy
for consistency with the planning assumptions for Noosa Shire as required by the legislation.
A subsequent report to the Planning and Organisation Committee Meeting of 31 March 2015
outlined the Demand Modeller and Tracking Tool (DMaTT) developed by Unitywater to inform the
Water Netserve Plan. Council was also provided with background, details and benefits of DMaTT
to deliver the necessary information to provide the required LGIP sections regarding projections
on “Population and employment growth” and “Residential dwellings and non-residential floor
space”.
Since 2014, Council and Unitywater staff have worked together to improve the accuracy of the
property base line development data contained in DMaTT and this work is a continuous/live
process as approvals and developments occur.
Unitywater have provided Council with a number of “DMaTT Briefing Notes” which details and
explains the whole process/s involved behind DMaTT and the resulting outputs for the LGIP
Planning Assumption items. These follow the same rationale previously used in Council’s
“Priority Infrastructure Plan, Preparation Methodology Report (Parts 1 & 2)” supporting document
for the current PIP, however DMaTT analyses the data down to the individual property level and
hence will be more accurate.
The following three technical documents will form the extrinsic material supporting this section of
the LGIP. However due to their large size, will only be provided electronically directly to
Councillors if requested:
i.     Demand Projections for the Next Revision of the Netserv Plan, Briefing Note on DMaTT
       Growth Forecasts for Noosa Shire, March 2015;
ii     Demand Projections for the Next Revision of the Netserv Plan, Briefing Note on DMaTT
       Information Inputs for Noosa Shire, March 2015; and
iii    Noosa Plan Local Government Infrastructure Plan Planning Assumptions, Briefing Note
       on DMaTT Local Government, Infrastructure Plan Planning Assumptions, April 2016.
The third briefing note document, along with the DMaTT GIS outputs, was received on 8th April
2016 for initial review. The GIS output of the DMaTT model is an excel spreadsheet containing
some 30,000 rows of individual and grouped properties with data provided across 203 columns. It
provides individual property development data at a base date of June 2014 through to the
ultimate development potential under the current planning scheme. It also allocates the data into
the respective LGIP residential and non-residential development categories and quantities
located inside or outside the PIA for each of the planning scheme localities.



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