MCU14/0056 PM Submission Object - Peter Lyle

Subject: MCU14/0056 Myall Street development
From: Peter Lyle
Date: 2015-03-04T21:30:50+00:00
To: Mailbox Council Mail

Peter Lyle
181 Forest Acres Drive
Lake Macdonald 4563
Phone 5442 5585

4 March 2015

Chief Executive Officer
Noosa Council
9 Pelican Street
Tewantin 4565

MCU14/0056   Myall St development

Traffic Impacts

Dear Sir,

The application has not properly analysed the development impact on the traffic conditions within Cooroy CBD and particularly on the intersection of Myall Street with Elm Street (the railway overpass) nor has it recommended works to offset impacts at this intersection.

It appears that the traffic estimates are not taking into account extra traffic caused by the development:

1. Having a wider catchment than the immediate town of Cooroy.

2. Being very popular with Cooroy Supa IGA shoppers who will be offered shopper docket  fuel discounts which will virtually make Myall St the new fuel hub of Cooroy.

3. Having lower petrol prices due to its highway location. This will have the effect of channelling the majority of Cooroy fuel shoppers from the existing fuel stations, across the Elm St Bridge, to the new Myall St fuel location, to the detriment of existing retail fuel outlets.

4. Having longer trading hours leading to increased hours when  traffic holdups at the Elm St intersection will occur.

5. Being likely a popular new entrance to Noosa (as an alternative to the current Eumundi turnoff). This factor has not been taken into account in the PTT report.

In addition
There is no analysis of the extra traffic that would use Crystal St from Maple St to await a turn at the already congested Myall St/ Crystal St intersection (opposite the Cooroy Golf Club).

The traffic figures quoted in the PTT traffic report (page 9) give a percentage increase at the Elm St intersection over peak times, but fail to note that the increase at other times of the day for this 24/7 operation means the average percentage increases will be large, and will likely lead to continual bottlenecks at the already inadequate intersection.

Conclusion
This development will exacerbate Cooroy’s increasing traffic problems of a town divided by an inadequate railway overpass.

Until there is a solution to the Elm St railway bridge, Cooroy is not ready for satellite development  zones.

Currently the land proposed for the development is rural, and as such forms an appropriate entry to the low-key, historic country town. Please ensure that Cooroy does not get started on a suburbanisation process that would see it look like nothing more than an outer Brisbane suburb.

Peter Lyle







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