Appendix D Code Assessment · MCU16/0099.01

                  Specific outcomes                         Probable solutions (if code assessment)                                  Comments

                                                               along watercourses and drainage lines;
O10      Vegetation which makes a positive                     and
contribution to the streetscape or major road                  within 10m of road reserves.
network is retained.
Habitat trees                                            S11.1 No clearing of koala habitat trees              Complies with O11
O11      Habitat trees (including dead trees) and        greater than 4 m in height or with a diameter         The three trees proposed for clearing to establish
recruitment habitat trees are protected for native       greater than 100 mm at 1.3 m above the                the proposed access to the approved facility are not
fauna habitat, where practicable.                        ground;                                               koala habitat trees.

                                                         AND

                                                         S11.2 No clearing of other habitat trees or
                                                         recruitment habitat trees.
Lake Macdonald                                           No solution provided.                                 O12 is not applicable
O12     Vegetation within 400m of the full ponded                                                              The proposed access and power route are not
water within Lake Macdonald is retained.                                                                       located within 400 m of Lake Macdonald.

Steep slopes                                             No solution provided.                                 O13 is not applicable
O13     Vegetation on steep slopes is retained and                                                             No vegetation removal on steep slopes is proposed.
managed to avoid erosion and landslide and to
protect natural resources and values.
Engineering and site works                               S14.1 Works, including roads, driveways,              Complies with O14
O14     Development is sited and designed to—            fences, sewer lines and other infrastructure—         The proposed access to the approved facility will
      provide adequate separation distance between            do not transect areas of vegetation; or          transect fewer areas of vegetation and will allow for
      the vegetation to be protected and the                   are co-located within a combined utility        less earthworks for the installation of underground
      development to avoid disturbing, destabilising           corridor; and                                   power. It is not anticipated that the proposed
      and deoxygenating any tree or altering the                                                               access and power route will fragment significant
      drainage;                                                provide for fauna underpasses, speed            flora or fauna species as only three trees are
                                                               reduction devices and associated fencing,       proposed to be removed.
      avoid traversing or fragmenting vegetation or            lighting and warning signs, where
      habitats for significant flora or fauna species;         appropriate;
      and
      avoid creating barriers to faunal movement.        AND

                                                         S14.2 Development within or adjacent to



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