Appendix A - Assessment of Development Codes 6968

1.0       Biodiversity, Waterways and Wetlands Overlay Code
      (1) The purpose of the Biodiversity, Waterways and Wetlands overlay code is to protect, rehabilitate and enhance ecologically important areas and improve
          connectivity and ecological linkages across Noosa Shire.
      (2) The overall outcomes sought for the Biodiversity, Waterways and Wetlands overlay code are:
              (a) The natural resources and ecosystem values of Noosa Shire are protected and enhanced including ecologically important areas and land and
                  environmental values of scenic, aesthetic, cultural, educational, recreational, scientific, economic and social value.
              (b) Development is designed, sited, constructed and operated in a way that avoids adverse impacts on ecologically important areas, ecological systems and
                  processes.
              (c) Development design and layout provides for ecological connectivity across the landscape through the protection, rehabilitation and enhancement of
                  native vegetation and ecological linkages.
              (d) Ecological linkages and riparian vegetation are conserved, managed, enhanced and rehabilitated to protect and improve biodiversity, ecosystem health,
                  landscape stability and resilience.
              (e) Development design and layout provides for the protection and establishment of appropriate buffers to waterways, wetlands, native vegetation and
                  significant fauna habitat.
              (f) The terrestrial and aquatic native flora and fauna and their habitats are protected and enhanced.
              (g) Development and its associated landscaping provides for the rehabilitation of ecologically important areas, degraded ecosystems and habitats to achieve
                  a functional and healthy ecosystem state that requires minimal human intervention.
              (h) Development is designed, sited, constructed and operated to avoid or minimise adverse impacts on koalas and their habitat and to provide for
                  connectivity and safety for the long term viability of the koala population.
              (i) In urban areas, biodiversity values are protected and enhanced to assist with ecosystem health, flora and fauna, urban amenity and quality of life.
Table One assesses the overall outcomes that are relevant to this development. The solutions provided to the overall outcomes demonstrate the proposal is generally in
accordance with the Biodiversity, Waterways and Wetlands Overlay Code.




Appendix A – Assessment of Applicable Development Codes
Project No.: 6968
Site Address: 1179 Louis Bazzo Drive, Cootharaba QLD 4565
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