2019-01-14 General Committee Meeting Agenda

GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                  14 JANUARY 2019


        a.   An accurate account of trees removed for the works including species, amount visual
             dominance in the landscape and approximate age.
        b.   Replacement planting of trees removed in a minimum pot size of 45L.
        c.   landscaping treatment to the northern road reserve including the provision of advanced
             tree stock of local native species to provide and maintain visually the rural nature of
             the road corridor.
        d.   A 36 months maintenance program to ensure the growth of the replacement plantings.
B2.     All landscape works must be established and maintained in accordance with the approved
        design for the life of the development, and in a manner that ensures healthy, sustained and
        vigorous plant growth. All plant material must be allowed to grow to full form and be
        refurbished when its life expectancy is reached.
B3.     All landscape works must be maintained generally in accordance with the approved design
        for the life of the development.
With regard to the number and composition of trucks proposed to visit the site the external traffic
consultants advises:
(i)     Prior to upgrading of Cooroy Mountain Road west of the access, until which time sections of
        the road will remain with sealed widths of only 5.5-6.0m, there are traffic safety and
        operational issues associated with having large vehicles using the road. In that regard, the
        narrow sections of road, combined with its undulating nature, means that provision for
        passing of large vehicle and cars in the opposing direction is substandard, such that one of
        the vehicles will occasionally have to travel off the narrow sealed pavement area. The larger
        the trucks, the greater the issue. Thus, prior to the upgrading of the road, truck numbers
        should be limited as much as possible, and in particular the number of articulated vehicles
        should be limited as much as possible.
(ii)    After Cooroy Mountain Road has been upgraded west of the access, the safety and
        operational issues will be largely eliminated, and the impacts of trucks would then be amenity
        related. The amenity impacts will be on the residential streets in Cooroy used to connection
        to Cooroy Mountain Road, and on the rural part of Cooroy Mountain Road. For the original
        appeal, that limit as far as it was influenced by the development, was agreed to be 50 water
        carrying trucks (including AV’s) plus 25 ancillary trucks (not including AV’s) per week.
(iii)   Rigid vehicles are much more common on the road than articulated vehicles. Rigid vehicles
        (such as a refuse truck, and furniture truck) regularly travel on residential streets, but the
        occurrence of articulated vehicles on residential streets is rare. Thus, amenity impacts of
        articulated vehicles on residential streets are perceived as being greater than the amenity
        impacts of rigid vehicles.
Having regard for the above, in my opinion, until Cooroy Mountain Road is upgraded west of the
access, the number and composition of trucks should be limited as much as possible, for traffic
safety and operational reasons. Thus, it would not be appropriate to approve an increase in the
number and composition of trucks as was required in the original approval prior to the upgrade of
Cooroy Mountain Road.
After Cooroy Mountain Road is upgraded, the truck impacts are amenity related. However, in the
original appeal, that limit was agreed to be up to 50 AV’s and up to 25 rigid vehicles per week. The
amenity impacts of AV’s are greater than the amenity impacts of rigid vehicles, so simply limiting
the number of vehicles to 75, with all potentially AV’s, would increase amenity impacts. Whether
or not that is acceptable is a matter of resident perception… a 50% increase in the number of AV’s
per week is a substantial increase.
With regards to B-Doubles accessing the site the external consultant notes that the access route
passes along Miva Street which is a residential street environment. Thus, under no circumstances
should Council consider approval of the route for B-Doubles, nor should they consider increasing


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