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

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                         impacted by the increased volume of garbage, and impeded as well by the increased street parking
                         thereby affecting its efficiency and ease. Australia is an increasingly over-regulated country relative to
                         many other countries, This is just another example of such, and of the worsening bureaucratic and elected
                         officialdom intrusiveness on the freedom of action, choice and enjoyment of its citizens.
                         WE strenuously urge to Council to seriously reconsider what is being proposed with these objections in
                         mind.
                         We would also add that the communication with all relevant rate payers and property owners with regard
                         to this Proposal has been woefully inadequate. How many people review on a regular basis, or at all, the
                         Council website and or the local, if any, tabloids? Surely direct, clear and comprehensive mail
                         communication to all potentially affected Shire households would have been, and should be considered,
                         more appropriate. Linda Michelle Christall and David Mark Newbold
             23145858    Objection to the inability to knock down and re-build a singular dwelling house on Medium Density and
                         High-Res land.
                         Thank you all for the time and immense effort that you are putting in to help us as a community attempt
                         to resolve the issue of housing supply, housing choice, housing diversity and housing affordability. The
                         issue is a large and complex one which has been a foot in Australia, Queensland and Noosa for more
                         than 30 years. As all levels of government seek to push more and more population to
                         the Noosa area, solutions absolutely need to be found.
                         We personally want to be a part of finding a truly workable and sustainable solutions – a win/win outcome
                         for all concerned. Noosa is comprised of a sophisticated and intelligent community who are eager to
                         assist with the challenge of finding fair and equitable solutions to housing supply, housing choice, housing
                         diversity and housing affordability.
                         In making the amendments proposed, council would be stripping the community of their ability to choose,
                         changing the conditions under which working-class people purchased their land. Council are unfairly
                         attempting to put the housing problem that was created by all levels of government across some 30 plus
                         years, back onto the people.
                         For all landowners in Noosa there has always been the right to knock down and re-build a new dwelling
                         house on one’s land. To have this housing choice / right, taken away, at the discretion of councillor’s
                         leadership, takes away the fundamental human right to be able to house oneself and one’s family in the
                         way that person sees fit.
                         While the proposed amendments look to afford one class of person (in the lower socio demographic) to
                         be afforded with ‘housing choice’, it directly discriminates against another class of person (in a higher
                         socio demographic) to bestow upon them little to no housing choice, devaluing their asset, in some cases
                         taking away that person’s livelihood, in some cases risking poverty for that person, should they become
                         unwell or want to realise their retirement via their land holding.
                         Forcing landowners to build 75 square meter dwellings won’t solve the greater issue. Under the proposed
                         amendment, on our own land at 41 Picture Point Cres Noosa, to recoup any land value at all, we would
                         need to stack our site with many 75 square meter units. We have run an economic analysis, and we
                         would need to sell each 75 square meter unit for millions of dollars, each would then rent in the vicinity of
                         $2-4000 per week in today’s economy, and we would still be losing money at that. By no means will the
                         proposed amendments assist, whatsoever, to resolve housing affordability for workers, if built in the
                         location of 41 Picture Point Cres.
                         The traffic implications in such a tiny, tiny, street as Picture Point Cres, if multiple 75 square meter units
                         (or indeed anymore units) were to be built on our site, would be horrific, as would the overall impacts on
                         neighbouring already newly built, single dwelling homes and holiday makers in neighbouring resorts.
                         Our old, but comfortable single dwelling home on our high-res site by way of example, can currently house
                         a family of 8 or 4 individuals in 4 individual bedrooms. Without the said amendments being bought in,
                         and should we be able to successfully sub-divide our land into two blocks, we have the potential to build
                         two dwelling houses, and we can provide two homes, housing approx. 16-20 persons between them, in
                         effect doubling the housing currently provided on our hillside without creating a heinous traffic and parking
                         situation for neighbours and resort users of Picture Point Cres.
                         To not have directly invited the actual land holders to engage on a matter that has such far reaching
                         detrimental impacts for so many in this community, persons of every differing socioeconomic status, is
                         considered an injustice by many.
                         Leave inside the proposed amendments everyone’s right to build dwelling houses, duplexes etc on
                         medium and high-res land sites, adding in an additional permission layer to build 75 square meter units
                         for those who freely choose to and for those it suits.
                         Consider an incentive program to really encourage developers to want to choose the option to develop
                         75 square meter units. We can use a ‘stick’ or ‘carrot’ mentality as leaders, and we suggest a ‘carrot’ will
                         have the best effect. The incentive of parking relaxations offered thus far in no way incentivises us as
                         developers.
                         We invite local and state government to allocate and / or purchase land, within a short 10–20-minute
                         distance of the Noosa town centre and truly engage with incentivise / reward developers to develop
                         affordable housing upon it, leading by example in the first instance. Create a public transport system for
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Table of Submissions made regarding Noosa Plan 2020 Proposed Amendment No. 2, 2024