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

PLANNING & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                     25 MARCH 2014


BDOA
   The BDOA declaration is considered to be             Notwithstanding      the    Sunshine   Coast
    unlawful. The BDOA underpins the ability of the      Council’s prior objection to the BDOA, the
    developer to make the application, and if it is      primary concern with the development
    unlawful then the application is not properly        application is that it will have unacceptable
    made. A proper and independent investigation         impact on koalas and other fauna and will
    of the legality and probity of the BDOA              clearly be to the net detriment of the koala
    declaration should be undertaken.                    population in the area.
   The proposal to transfer 139.5ha of land to
    national park tenure will not provide any
    significant benefit to koalas or any other fauna,
    as development will impact significantly on
    existing ecological corridors. The 139.5ha of land
    is already protected under a conservation
    zoning. The BDOA proposal will have no net
    environmental gain. the land proposed to be set
    aside for ’offset’ purposes is clearly constrained
    by various planning and environmental
    instruments such that it cannot be reasonably
    expected to be developed in any case.
    Furthermore, the proposed development is likely
    to destroy (or significantly impact, at the very
    least) existing koala habitat.
   The previous State government has ignored the
    advice and objections of the then DERM and
    SCRC by approving the BDOA and this should
    not have occurred.
   The only present threat to the environmental
    values of the land being dedicated as national
    park as part of the BDOA declaration is the
    proposed development itself.
Employment
 Application claims that the development will           Employment and economic benefits will flow
  create 2076 jobs over 8 years but there are only       from the proposal but these benefits can be
  909 jobs provided for on-site. Remaining jobs          attributed to all development and are not
  may go to residents outside of Noosa and               grounds to justify the application.
  therefore the claimed benefits to local
  employment opportunities are questioned.
 Job opportunities provided by the development
  will be short term and will disappear at the
  completion of the build. The development’s
  impacts however will be long term, with a
  depletion of the Noosa environment.
 This type of large housing development does not
  generate much work for local building industry
  workers as large companies from Brisbane and
  beyond are usually contracted for the build.
 Noosa’s economy is founded on tourism not
  construction.
 Noosa does not have enough employment
  opportunities to support its current population.




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