NOOSA PLAN 2020 PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO. 2 - POST PUBLIC NOTIFICATION FOR FINAL STATE GOVERNMENT MINISTERIAL APPROVAL · Attachment 1 Table of submissions

 Your Say    ECM         Submitter comments                                                                                                Response                                                                                                    Recommendation
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                         Traffic, Parking and Transport Infrastructure
                         • Cooroy can’t cope with its existing traffic and car parks in town how is it going to cope with another 200-     Submitters are correct in that Cooroy is affected by delays at two very problematic intersections on Elm
                           250 cars a day?                                                                                                 Street in need of upgrading. Council has been advocating to the State Government to address these for
                         • Infrastructure in the whole of the shire needs improvements . The existing residents struggle throughout        some time.
                           the shire with parking , public transport. If council Is considering high density housing if you do t provide   The suggested figure of 200-250 cars is excessive. An upgrade to the intersection of Lake Macdonald
                           better roads, better parking better public transport how will the entire shire cope                             Drive and Dianella Court is proposed to accommodate the additional cars from the proposed subdivision.
                                                                                                                                           A traffic engineer designed the intersection upgrade.
                         • Traffic is already coming to stand stills on weekdays & parking is hard to find.
                                                                                                                                           At this stage there is a plan to sell proposed Lot 1 for the purpose of 25 small community housing units.
                         • How is the railway bridge connecting both sides of the town ever going to flow it struggles now.
                         • Already difficult to merge into Lake McDonald Dr from intersecting streets. Substantial intersection
                           works will be needed.
                         • Dianella Court is currently a cul-de-sac and busy with local traffic. Proposed new residents would use
                           the end of Dianella Court to come and go.
                         • Lake Macdonald Drive is already a very fast and busy road. The proposed development will add very
                           considerable short to medium traffic increase whilst construction works commence and ongoing will
                           significantly increase traffic obviously on a road which is already poorly maintained and unsuitable for
                           large volumes of traffic. What investigations have council performed in respect of this aspect if any and
                           what are the results of those investigations?
                         • Lake Macdonald Drive adjacent to this property has minimal visibility to the Southwest (corner). It would
                           also need to be a steep descent, creating less visibility.
                         • The road is not suitable for the increased number of cars this development would create. Children
                           already struggle to cross the road there on their way to school. Most cars drive at 80km and don’t slow
                           down until they hit the bend in the road. Police never sped trap here so everyone knows they can speed
                           and not get caught.
                         • This will vastly impact the already over crowded intersections of Swift Dr and Lake Macdonald Dr and
                           Swift Dr and Cooroy Noosa Rd at peak times.
                         • Evacuation safety in case of fire or flood - Dianella Court residents will be behind 200 plus cars turning
                           onto the end of our street (a no through road) to get out onto Lake Macdonald Dr.
                         • There is already increased traffic travelling on Elm making it difficult to merge onto Elm St.
                         • What is the parking situation for this development both during construction and once developed? Our
                           street is at capacity already and cannot take more thoroughfare traffic or parked vehicles.
                         • We have the issue of on street parking on the new development. Can you ensure me that the end of
                           the cul-de-sac (where my kids play) won’t become a shortcut to stages 2 & 3?
                         • Regarding car parking, the max 75m2 dwellings have proposed car parking requirements of essentially
                           one car per house in the high and medium density residential zones, understood to exist in some of the
                           coastal areas, but not Cooroy. But there doesn’t appear to be any parking specification for the same
                           small dwellings should they be plonked in the community facilities zoned land. Council needs to think
                           this through. Locals near community zoned land threatened by controversial residential proposals are
                           concerned about the planning amendment proposal indicating 75m2 allows for up to 2 bedrooms.
                           Where does the second tenant park their car? Existing residents do not want other street’s cars filling
                           their street. Some houses with teenage children already have four cars per house, two in the garage
                           and two in the street. Occupants of these regular houses have a right to park their cars out the front of
                           their own house.
                         • You need more car parks in your proposal. Cars are not going away. Sunshine Coast public transport
                           is light on.
                         • I want to be able to drive around town and find somewhere to park.
                         • You propose car parks not be covered, even though we are subjected to hail storms in our region.
                           Rising insurance costs are a known reason why the cost of everything is going up
                         • The local area already has already seen a significant population boom and the Cooroy town centre
                           already lacks the infrastructure to deal with it.
                         • Development of this density would exceed the capacity of the town’s infrastructure which is already
                           strained.
                         • Appears to be little planning done to consider the infrastructure impact on the local community
                         • The proposed site is not within walking distance of essential services such as schools, shops, and
                           public transport.
                         • There is no public transport that passes by this development and if the children are to attend the local
                           school, they are not in a zone in which they can use the school bus due to the vicinity of the school.
                         • This lack of accessibility would make it impractical for residents and could lead to further issues related
                           to transportation and convenience.
                         • This would spill parked cars into the surrounding low density streetscapes. It would generate potentially
                           250 to 320 cars to Cooroy's struggling road infrastructure. Due to the railway line, Cooroy is a split town.
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Table of Submissions made regarding Noosa Plan 2020 Proposed Amendment No. 2, 2024