2022-11-14 GC Agenda - Item 3 - Attachment 1 - Draft Eastern Beaches Foreshore Management Plan

3. Management objectives
Eastern Beaches Foreshore Reserves Objectives

   1. Contribute to Noosa’s liveability and scenic amenity by managing the coastal landscapes in
      the Eastern Beaches Foreshore Reserves.

   2. Maintain adaptive, long-term, inclusive, safe and sustainable public recreational access to
      beaches, foreshores, waters, and foreshore bushland.

   3. Contribute to improved community and ecosystem climate change resilience, using nature-
      based methods and protecting the social and natural values of the Eastern Beaches
      Foreshore Reserves.

   4. Manage climate change impacts on the values of the Eastern Beaches Foreshore
      Reserves.

   5. Conserve the long-term health and stability of coastal landforms by protecting, maintaining,
      enhancing, and rehabilitating native vegetation.

   6. Contribute towards improved water quality in the Coral Sea, Laguna Bay, Noosa River,
      lakes, and coastal creeks.

   7. Identify and protect Indigenous and European cultural heritage sites and values in the
      Eastern Beaches Foreshore Reserves.

   8. Increase community and organisation understanding of the values and importance of
      foreshores.

   9. Develop and foster partnerships with the community, other parts of Council, State agencies
      and other land managers, and organisations to collaboratively manage Noosa’s foreshores.

   10. Work with Eastern Beaches Foreshore Reserves neighbours to achieve mutually beneficial
       amenity, biodiversity, and community safety outcomes.

   11. Protect and improve the biodiversity values of the Eastern Beaches Foreshore Reserves
       network, using best practice management techniques.

   12. Manage hazardous vegetation, bushfire, flooding, coastal erosion and pest species within
       the Eastern Beaches Foreshore Reserves according to Council’s policies, plans, risk
       appetite and legislative requirements.




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