MCU15/0095 & REC15/0022 PM Submission Object - Petition

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                                                                        practice demands that service station facilities be set
                                                                        back a far greater distance from the School.

  2.   The nearest           structure      on the          school      The relevance of this statement                is unclear and if
       boundary        is the pump house for the                        anything demonstrates the proximity of the proposed
       school pool                                                      service station to the School pool facilities              used by
                                                                        toddlers and young children.

  3. The          proposed         service        station          is   Visual distinction is the least of the concerns that are
       orientated          away from       the school and               associated with         the    location     of a service      station

       towards        the     Eumundi-         Noosa         Road       adjacent      to,     indeed   adjoining,     a School and         its
       frontage,       providing         visual    distinction          associated health and physical education facilities.
       between both sites.

  4. The service            station      refuelling     area       is   The       Applicant     provides     nojustification     for its
       sufficiently        distanced      from    the school            assertion      that     the    Development     His   sufficiently
       boundary which is greater than 25m.                              distanced from the school boundary which is greater
                                                                        than 25m."


                                                                        In the contrary we have demonstrated                  elsewhere in
                                                                        this document that international             and Australian best
                                                                        practice demands that service station facilities be set
                                                                        back a far greater distance from the School.

  S. All vehicle access relating to the service                         The relevance of this statement is once again unclear.
       station      and      future       proposed          Lot     2   The access being off Eumundi-Noosa Road, which is
       development           is obtained       via Eumundi-             the same as the access to the School and only a short
       Noosa Road which is more than suitably                           distance away creates the potential                for increased
       distanced       from       the school access off                 traffic     queuing     and    obstruction      along   the     short
       Walter Hay Drive.                                                stretch of road between the two entrances.

  6. A dedicated             pedestrian      pathway          from      Again the reievance of this statement             is unclear. The
       Walter       Hay      Drive     is proposed.           This      pathway       provides no additional          protection      for the
       pathway         connects        Walter      Hay Drive            School children. Indeed it provides further unwanted
       directly       to    the    site     and       the    store      opportunity         for children to access the shop, which is
       building,      thus     reducing       any potential             undoubtedly         the main purpose of the development,
       conflict        between            pedestrians             and   that is to encourage the school children to purchase
       vehicles.                                                        from the shop and increase the profits to the owner
                                                                        at the expense of - and threat                 to -     the School
                                                                        children.


The Applicant has also failed to respond seriously and comprehensively                                 to Council's request for further
information   regarding the Airborne Hazards in proximity to the School identified by Council as an area of
critical importance to the Development application:


   Applicant's     Response                  Objectors' Response

   1. Benzene as an active                   The Applicant provides mere idle assertion in the face of the evidence



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