Appendix A - Assessment of Development Codes 6968

                                                                Biodiversity, Waterways and Wetlands Overlay Code

                Performance Outcomes                                     Acceptable Outcomes                                          Proposed Solutions                       Compliance
 Rehabilitation of ecologically important areas
 PO10                                                    AO10.1                                                       PS10.1                                                      ✓
 Development provides for ecologically important areas   Landscaping and rehabilitation complements and               The site is largely an intact ecologically important
 to be restored and enhanced through:                    supports ecologically important areas by:                    area. Any rehabilitation will occur within the partial
      (a) designing landscaped areas to complement           (a) utilising local native species;                      cleared area and will appropriately landscaped to
           and enhance existing vegetation and               (b) utilising suitable plant species identified in       meet acceptable outcomes of this performance
           ecological linkages;                                    PSP2 Landscaping;                                  outcome.
      (b) removing species likely to displace native         (c) restoring degraded ecosystems to achieve a
           flora species or degrade fauna habitat;                 functional ecosystem state that requires
      (c) replanting and rehabilitating degraded                   minimal human intervention;
           habitat;                                          (d) replicating adjacent remnant habitats of the
      (d) replacing any vegetation removed with                    same type, including the understorey
           suitable local native species;                          vegetation;
      (e) providing for fauna habitat; and                   (e) creating or enhancing linkages between
      (f) avoiding the planting of pest plant species.             existing habitats;
                                                             (f) avoiding the use of pest plant species listed in
                                                                   PSP2 - Landscaping;
                                                             (g) planting riparian zones to filter stormwater
                                                                   run-off, stabilise soil and provide for wildlife
                                                                   habitat; and
                                                             (h) providing ground and arboreal structures for
                                                                   fauna, which may include ground
                                                                   depressions, rocks, hollows, nesting boxes
                                                                   and in-stream habitat.
                                                         AO10.2                                                       PS10.2                                                      ✓
                                                         Vegetation cleared is replaced with:                         Given the majority of the site largely remains
                                                             (a) plantings of equivalent area that replicate the      vegetated, it is proposed to replace with twice the
                                                                   floristic structure of the vegetation removed;     number of removed trees.
                                                                   or
                                                             (b) where this is not possible due to the
                                                                   characteristics of the site and the
                                                                   development, plantings twice the number of
                                                                   the removed trees and plants.


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