2015-05-26 Planning & Organisation Committee Agenda

PLANNING & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                        26 MAY 2015


Land Use & Works Provisions
The following table details the compliance of the proposed development against the key technical
provisions of The Noosa Plan, with further assessment provided thereafter.
                    Table 1 Assessment against the key technical provisions

       Criteria                            Planning Scheme       Proposal           Complies
       Gross floor area                    320m² max             185m²              
       Site cover                          45% max               65%                X
       Landscaped open space               28.6m² min (10%)      101m² (36%)        
       Landscaping Setbacks                2m from frontages     No change          
       Building height
       - storeys                           2 storeys max         1 storey           
       - metres                            6 metres              4.5 metres         
       Boundary setbacks
       - Frontage (Noosa Drive)            2m (avg. 4m)          3.75m to 5.25m     
       - Frontage (Halse Lane – south)     2m (avg. 4m)          1m to 3m           X
       - Frontage (Halse Lane – east)      2m (avg. 4m)          4m                 
       - Side                              Nil                   0m                 
       Carparking                          10.7                  Nil                X
Carparking
The existing approval included 85m2 of shop floor area and requires 4.25 car parking spaces
based on the Noosa Plan carparking rates. The additional 100m2 of floor area generates an
additional carparking demand of 6.42 spaces. The site includes no on-site carparking.
The applicant submits the small size of the shop and its location near existing public transport
infrastructure means the provision of on-site parking is not an essential or practical requirement.
Instead, the applicant proposes to enter into an infrastructure agreement for payment in lieu of 6
off-street parking spaces.
The applicant proposes contributions totalling $135,732 to be used in accordance with the now
repealed PSP13 – Contributions in lieu of Provision of Off-street Parking. This repealed policy
allowed for contributions to be used for acquisition, construction and/or modification of land for
parking, or the improvement of public transport infrastructure, subject to meeting certain
requirements.
At its Ordinary Meeting of 26 June 2014 Council resolved:
       That Council request Strategic Land Use Planning to prepare a detailed report addressing
       the feasibility of accepting contributions in lieu of the provision of off-street parking within
       each locality and, in the interim, not generally accept monetary contributions in lieu of the
       provision of off-street parking.
The resolution indicates it would not generally be appropriate to accept monetary contributions in
lieu of providing carparking, and in the interim, each development application must be assessed
on its merit. While the Hastings Street area is generally considered a key location for delivery of
future public transport infrastructure, Council currently does not have an adopted policy position
for infrastructure spending for parking contributions, and it is problematic to continue to increase
parking demand without identified ways to invest the offsets.

Although Council has accepted monetary contributions in lieu of providing carparking since the
resolution, these applications were both lodged at a time when the previous Planning Scheme
Policy was still in place. The current application was lodged after the Council’s resolution and the
applicant was made well aware of Council’s position about not generally accepting monetary
contributions in lieu of off-street parking.

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