Development Application part 2 Report and Plans MCU13/0052

  j) The function, safety and visual amenity of the major road network are protected and
  enhanced;

  k) Open space networks are protected and enhanced to provide recreational,
  environmental and aesthetic amenity opportunities across the locality;


  I) Kin Kin village and Boreen Point village are the urban focal points, supporting the only
  urban settlement in the locality, and consolidated through the provision of an appropriate
  level of service to residents of the locality;


  t) For the Rural Zone-rural land is protected and appropriately managed such that the
  scenic and environmental values, the distinct rural amenity and agricultural productivity of
  the locality are preserved and are not adversely impacted as a consequence of
  development on or adjacent to that land;

  Compliance
  Development for a ’Tower’ is recognised as an inconsistent land use within the Boreen
  Point, Kin Kin & Cootharaba Locality Rural Zone. However, the proposed subject site is
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  considered appropriate to accommodate the proposed facility whilst minimising potential
  visual and amenity impacts. In order to achieve this, a comprehensive site selection
  process was undertaken prior to identifying a preferred site for the development of a new
  facility. This process involved consideration to not on meet the coverage objectives, but
  also minimise visual and amenity impacts to the surrounding area.


  The facility is considered to be appropriately located with other compatible uses and works
  as the subject site is predominantly used for pine tree harvesting and logging and contains

  existing infrastructure including the energex corridor of powerline and poles which runs
  from north to south through the centre of the subject site (approximately 20 m east of the
  proposed facility). Fixed wireless coverage in the Boreen Point North and Cootharaba area
  will also aid economic development through potentially increasing business growth and
  education potential. As previously stated the Boreen Point North Facility is an essential
  wireless hub site for the larger network as it can obtain line of site to the other wireless
  facilities located further away where a 30 m monopole in the location of Boreen Point
  cannot. The site will connect the Boreen’ Point north facility, which provides service to the
  township identified as a identified as a ’Village Centre’ on the Noosa Plan Strategy Map,
  back into the fibre network and therefore this facility will provide benefits to both the
  Boreen Point North/Cootharaba and Boreen Point areas.


   Significant areas of mature vegetation on site and within the surrounding area which will
   provide screening benefits in all directions from the adjacent properties, transport routes
   and recreational users of Lake Cootharaba. Existing vegetation in the surrounding area
   will mitigate impacts on multiple views as follows:
      .     It is anticipated that the headframe of the facility will only be seen above the
            existing tree canopy when viewed by recreational users of Lake Cootharaba, as
            there is a 900m buffer of dense vegetation (where the tallest tree is 25m high)
            separating the facility from edge of Lake Cootharaba;
:.:’  .     When viewed from Lake. Flat Road the facility will only become intermittently
            visible at a few minor clearings in the vegetation which aligns with the road
          network; and
      .   The existing vegetation bu,ffer aligning the northern lot boundary will separate and
          screen the   facility from the closest residential dwellings situated north east of the
          facility.

  The current site is considered to demonstrate an appropriate balance of the above overall
  outcomes whereby the facility has been appropriately located within a predominantly low




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