2017-02-07 P&E Agenda Attachment 1 to Item 8 Community Feedback on New Noosa Plan

Submitter               Comments                                                                             Staff Response
                       Developers are already seeking to exploit rural settlement zones for health and
                       wellbeing, hospice or other uses with little connection to land and the desired
                       outcomes for land designated as Regional Landscape and Rural Production. We
                       object to any proposed rezoning of land from rural to rural residential and any
                       proposal with up to 30 guest plus staff is an urban development.

                139    Continued recognition of the ecosystem services that the rural areas of Noosa
                       contribute, recognition and support for best practice land management and allow
                       for appropriate rural enterprise with reasonable infrastructure demands and
                       protect good agricultural land from fragmentation.

                 50    Why stop intensive farming - like to see a boutique feedlot boning room
                       enterprise. Boning rooms are limited in number by Department of Primary
                       Industries. These already exist in locality but more should be allowed.

                 50    Free range chicken farming is not intensive enough and won't feed a family.

                171    Intensive farming should have no place in Noosa. Noosa should be known for its        Council proposes to review animal farming provisions in the New Noosa Plan.
                       great environment and encouragement of environmentally friendly farming
                       practices, rather than an area where intensive farming of any type blots the land,
                       air and waterways with its dust, waste and other by-products.

                120    Need to maintain rural road infrastructure linkages in any new policy setting.        Noted

            120, 174   Consider the use of underutilised rural land for eco-living with low impact           If aging rural land owners want to remain on their property but no longer in
                       affordable housing. Witchcliffe in WA example.                                        the main house they have the ability to build a small secondary dwelling,
                                                                                                             however these cannot be subdivided. Any other form of multiple permanent
                                                                                                             residences is not permissible in rural areas. (See South East Qld Regional Plan)

            120, 121   Use mapping overlays to protect biodiversity corridors and values, waterways and      Overlay mapping and codes are the usual approach to acknowledging these
                       riparian zones over public and private land. Using mapping to protect good quality    values in the development assessment process.
                       agricultural land from development and further fragmentation. Protect water
                       catchments and key resource areas that can be sustainably extracted for local
                       construction industries.

                121    Country Noosa is concerned about the interpretation of applying a rural residential   Council proposes a review of the agricultural development provisions to
                       zone on acreage lots where rural living is the preferred dominant use - allow only    determine whether there can be better approaches to protecting agricultural
                       discrete rural enterprise with no external impacts. This will increase buffer zones   interests.
                       and separation distances impacting greatly on already existing rural enterprise and
                       significantly reduce the prospect of making many rural properties financially


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