MCU15/0095 & REC15/0022 PM Submission Object - Kass Livesey

                                                                        practice demands that service station facilities be set
                                                                        back a far greater distance from the School.

  2.    The nearest           structure       on the        school      The relevance of this statement                 is unclear and if
        boundary       is the pump house for the                        anything demonstrates the proximity of the proposed
        school pool                                                     service station to the School pool facilities used by
                                                                        toddlers and young children.

  3. The           proposed         service         station        is   Visual distinction is the least of the concerns that are
        orientated        away from the school and                      associated with          the location    of a service           station
        towards        the     Eumund;-          Noosa        Road      adjacent      to,     Indeed   adjoining,     a School and            its
        frontage,         providing        visual    distinction        associated health and physical education facilities.
        between both sites.

  4. The service station                   refuelling      area    is   The       Applicant     provides    no      justification       for   its
        sufficiently       distanced        from    the school          assertion      that     the    Development         "is      sufficiently
        boundary which is greater than 25m.                             distanced from the school boundary which is greater
                                                                        than 25m."


                                                                        In the contrary we have demonstrated                     elsewhere in
                                                                        this document that international             and Australian best
                                                                        practice demands that service station facilities be set
                                                                        back a far greater distance from the School.

  5.    All vehicle access relating to the service                      The relevance of this statement is once again unclear.
        station      and      future       proposed         Lot     2   The access being off Eumundi-Noosa Road, which is
        development           is obtained via Eumundi-                  the same as the access to the School and only a short
        Noosa Road which is more than suitably                          distance away creates the potential                    for increased
        distanced       from       the school access off                traffic     queuing     and obstruction         along the          short
        Walter Hay Drive.                                               stretch of road between the two entrances.

   6.   A dedicated          pedestrian        pathway        from      Again the relevance of this statement Is unclear. The
        Walter      Hay Drive          is proposed.            This     pathway provides no additional                protection        for the
        pathway        connects        Walter       Hay Drive           School children. Indeed it provides further unwanted
        directly     to      the    site     and     the      store     opportunity         for children to access the shop, which is
        building,      thus     reducing        any potential           undoubtedly         the main purpose of the development,
        conflict       between             pedestrians            and   that is to encourage the school children to purchase
        vehicles.                                                       from the shop and increase the profits to the owner
                                                                        at the expense of - and threat                  to -      the School
                                                                        children.


The Applicant has also failed to respond seriously and comprehensively to Council's request for further
information    regarding the I\irborne Hazards in proximity tu the School Identified by Council as an area of
critical importance to the Development application:


  Applicant's Response                         Objectors' Response

   1. Benzene as an active                     The Applicant provides mere idle assertion in the face of the evidence



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