2021-10-21 Ordinary Meeting Minutes

ORDINARY MEETING MINUTES   21 OCTOBER 2021


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ORDINARY MEETING MINUTES                                                                               21 OCTOBER 2021

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                Petition for Reef Street Noosaville “Traffic Calming’
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         We, the undersigned, are making this representation to the Noosa Shire Counc? with the hope
         improvement iritiatives will be considered to address an ever-increasing vehicle speed and
         subsequent extreme noise which impacts the amenity of our residential area. By introducing
         improvement initiotives, the risk of serious and/or fatal accidents could be significantly reduced as
         the ability of speeding cars and motor bikes using Reef Street could be climinated, The speeding
         traffic is of significant risk to the general Reef Street treffic and slow-moving traffic entering to and
         from the Noosa Waters Estete.
         Background
         Reef Sireet, Noosaville, commences at the roundabout at the intersection of Mary Street and Weyba
         Road and extends southwards to the roundabout on Eenie Creek Road. It has become a common
         practice for cars and motorbikes, at all hours of the day and night, to pass through the roundabout
         at Mary Street, in a southerly direction, and accelerate at dangerous rates exceeding the 60kph
         speed limit, even before reaching Bluefin Court and continuing to increase speed as they approach
         Bay Street. A similar pattern of car and motorbike behaviour is also occurring in the opposite
        direction.
         What ts adding to the noise generated by the excessive speed Is the surprising number of cars and
         motorbikes that have gone out of their way to modily their vehicles to “enhance” the exhaust noise!
         Impact
         The residential areas that experience the worst impacts of the extreme noise, due to their close
         proximity to Reef Street, include parts of:
            ©   Bluefin Court,
            ©   Shoreheven Drive,
            ®   Waterside Court
            e   Nannygai Street
            ©   Lake Weyba Drive, more particularly, the western boundaries of Laguna Estate Retirement
                Village and the Noosa Waters Retirement Estate
        The extreme noise is so pervasive that other areas deeper into the Noosa Waters residential areas
        are more than likely experiencing negative Impacts as well
        improvement Initiatives
        We, the undersigned, request thal the current 60kph speed limit be reduced to 40kph. In
        conjunction with the speed reduction, we also request that the installation of road humps and/or
        slow points be investigated.

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