2014-03-25 Planning & Organisation Committee Agenda Pages 81-167

PLANNING & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                25 MARCH 2014


   Clearing of trees may impact on groundwater
    table.
   Proposed buffer to Lake Weyba is only 40m
    (excluding 10m within lots and 10m of
    drainage) and is intended to be manicured
    grass for fire protection not revegetated. The
    buffer should be at least 100m as
    recommended by current planning documents.
    No vegetation within the buffer should be
    removed and revegetation with plants endemic
    to the area should occur.
   No baseline water quality study has been
    undertaken to monitor water quality impacts on
    the lake.
   Lake access is a positive, but should be from a
    public road and not lots with direct frontage.
   Public access to the lake is already provided
    from existing areas.


Koalas, Frogs & Other Fauna                           The proposal clearly cannot be considered
 Extensive clearing of both old growth and           to have a net benefit to koalas. Any
  juvenile koala habitat trees and development        benefits posed are outweighed by the
  itself will destroy one of the last healthy koala   impacts caused by the location of the
  habitats in the area.                               development footprint and its roads
                                                      adjacent to retained habitat areas and
 Proposed fences to prevent koalas being killed      severing movement corridors.
  by cars wouldn’t be required at all if no
  development was proposed – not a ground to          Urban development impacts are the
  support the development.                            primary risk to koala populations and a
                                                      reduction in the local koala population due
 The application does not mention who will be        to this development is almost certain.
  responsible for the maintenance of the
  fencing.                                            Impacts on other fauna are also likely for
                                                      similar reasons. The applicant proposes
 Koala       densities  within    the    proposed    unacceptable measures to protect fauna
  development site demonstrate the precarious         from vehicle strikes and the development
  existence of this vulnerable species                removes habitat and severs, or unduly
 Chopping down several thousand “non-                compromises, fauna movement corridors.
  juvenile” Koala habitat trees on the site then
  replanting with same species, begs the
  question: What do the Koalas do in the
  meantime? Other species rely on trees as
  well.
 The Applicant’s report on Koalas states that
  car strikes, habitat clearing and dogs are the
  three most significant causes of Koala deaths.
  This proposed development will produce all
  three of these activities within a sensitive
  environment.
 No one can guarantee that speed limits will be
  adhered to by drivers.




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