Attachment 4 - Terrestrial Ecology Report_RACV_2022 June

Koala habitat protection and enhancement Table 8.2.2.3 - Criteria for assessable development (part)
Performance outcomes                                                                       Acceptable outcomes                                                   Project Outcomes
Koala habitat protection and enhancement
PO11                                                                                       AO11.1                                                                Koala Matters are addressed by Dr Bill
Development is designed, constructed and operated to—                                                                                                            Ellis
                                                                                           Development design complies with the Koala-sensitive Design
     1.    protect and enhance koalas and koala habitat and avoid adverse                  Guideline: A guide to koala sensitive design measures for planning
           impacts;                                                                        and development activities.
     2.    provide measures to assist the survival of koala populations in the
           area to mitigate any potential threats or risk to koalas; and                   AO11.2
     3.    provide for safe and appropriate koala movement across the                      Development incorporates revegetation and landscaping that
           landscape.                                                                      provides food, shelter and movement opportunities for koalas.

Editor's Note—Koala habitat mapping is in Schedule 2 Mapping.                              AO11.3
                                                                                           Development is designed to maximise and enhance connectivity
Editor's Note—The Planning Regulation 2017, schedule 10 states that development that       between koala habitat trees and ensure safe koala movement.
interferes with koala habitat, in an area that is both a koala priority area and a koala
habitat area, is prohibited development (subject to the exceptions stated in schedule 10   AO11.4
of the Planning Regulation 2017).
                                                                                           During construction, measures are incorporated to not increase the
Editor's Note - These performance outcomes and acceptable outcomes apply to:
                                                                                           risk of death or injury to koalas, by including safe koala movement
                                                                                           measures, as defined in the Planning Regulation 2017.
     1.    development on land in a koala priority area, where the development does not
           interfere with koala habitat and where the benchmarks are additional to and
           not inconsistent with, the assessment benchmarks stated in schedule 11, part
           2 of the Planning Regulations 2017; and
     2.    development on land outside the koala priority area, where the development
           does not interfere with koala habitat in koala habitat areas.