2014-10-14 Planning & Organisation Committee Agenda - Pages 51 - 117

PLANNING & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA   14 OCTOBER 2014




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PLANNING & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                14 OCTOBER 2014

        Ly                     PROPOSAL FOR A BOUNDARY CHANGE

                    - so how do we compete for attention when we are a small fish in a very,
                    very large sea? The answer is that you can’t!
                6. Future planning pressure. As the closest area to Noosa, the EDV under
                    the SCC is a prime area for future developers to be able to build large
                    scale developments that can capture the Noosa brand without the
                    associated controls that Noosa Council would require. Think “Noosa on
                    Weyba”.   If the boundary moves south then such developments will be
                    either under Noosa Council control or outside the Noosa ‘catchment’.
                    Noosa will then have the planning ‘green belt’ both it and EDV need.
                7. Planning philosophies - SCC is a large, growing and development focused
                    Council with a vision to develop the “City of the Sunshine Coast”. There
                    is nothing at all wrong with such a vision — but most people who have
                    come to live in the EDV area want a rural residential lifestyle and
                    protection of the unique characteristics of our many lovely small towns —-
                    something that is deeply embedded in Noosa’s planning philosophies and
                    endorsed by its residents.   Both Noosa and EDV would have better
                    protection of amenity over the long term if the EDV area was part of the
                    Noosa Council area.
                8. Representation and voting power - our area as previously noted has
                    some 3,840 electors on the role (597 or 15% are in Div 10 and the
                    remainder (85%) are in Div 9).   In the last local government elections,
                    votes from our area had virtually no impact on the outcome and both
                    local Councillors would have been elected without our vote. In terms of
                    the whole of the Sunshine Coast we represent just over 2% of the total
                    population.
                9. Efficiencies - The simple facts of locality for servicing EDV from Noosa
                    rather than from Maroochydore, means that a southward move of the
                    boundary is likely to involve financial efficiencies and benefits for both
                    Councils.
                 10.More bang for our rates buck!   Bigger is not necessarily better when it
                    comes to spending our rate money.      Noosa Council is committed to
                    maintaining a  lean and efficient organisation with more resources
                    directed to service provision and less to bureaucracy - that is a great
                    benefit to ratepayers who are facing a potential rates time bomb with the
                    mounting debt occurring in the SCC relating to unresolved infrastructure
                    charges for Caloundra South, the cost of purchasing the Horton Golf Club
                    for the Maroochy CBD among other matters.
                 11.Supporting our economy - Eumundi is working hard to become more
                    than a market town and to boost its visitor potential with all the flow on
                    economic benefits that brings. Experience Eumundi is visible proof of that
                    commitment.    During amalgamation, Tourism Noosa was supporting
                    Eumundi   and  is  strongly  committed   to  rebuild that  relationship,
                    something that can only occur if the EDV area moves to Noosa Shire.

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            Submission from the EDV Group

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