Development Application part 2 Report and Plans MCU13/0052

screening benefits in all directions from the adjacent properties, transport routes and
recreational users of Lake Cootharaba.



                                                        Vegetation buffer
                                                      screening the facility
                                                         from the closest
                                                       residential dwellings




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’Figure 8.2:            a    d surrounds de’monstrating existing mature vegetation in tbe Witter vicinity
    which will provide for visual screening bel"!efits (Source:http://maps.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au)


As indicated in Figure 8.2 existing mature vegetation aligns Lak               Flat Road and provides       I    ’




a   buffer from Lake Cootharaba which             is located
                                                          approximately 900m east of the
proposed    facility. This separation     distance in
                                                    conjunction with the mature vegetation
corridor (where the tallest trees are approximately 25m in height) will screen the majority
of the facility,from recreational users on Lake Cootharaba. It. is anticipated that the users
of Lake Cootharaba will only see the headframe of the facility above the existing tree
canopy. Additi nally when viewed from Lake Flat Road, the facility will only become
intermittently visible at a few minor clearings in the vegetation along the road. These
fleeting views are not anticipated to be visually obtrusive.

Figure 8.2 alSo illustrates the existing vegetation buffer aligning the northern lot boundary
which will screen the facility from the closest residential dwellings situated to the north of
the facility. This existing vegetation will provide a substantial degree of screening and will




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