Letter to Council · MCU13/0171

RE: Application No. MCU 13/0171

375 Lake Macdonald Drive
Lake Macdonald 4563
22/10/2013

The Assessment Manager
Sunshine Coast Regional Council.

Dear Sir/Madam
I hereby lodge my objection to the above Application on the following grounds.

1. As this will affect for many years into the future, this MCU should rightly be
assessed by the incoming Noosa Shire Council. It is therefore outside the
jurisdiction of the existing, and soon to be defunct, Sunshine Coast
Regional Council as it is now in Caretaker status and major decisions such
as this can result in lengthy expensive court challenges. That would be
detrimental to the rate payers and possibly leave the current council open
to large legal and compensation payouts.

2. Historically Cooroy had industrial activities saw mills, butter factory, brick
works, transport depots, scattered throughout the residential areas. Good
Town Planning however acknowledges that industrial activity should be in
separate designated areas to provide amenity to those residential
lifestyles. Large areas of land have been set aside, already sub-divided,
appropriately zoned, and facilities in place at tax payers expense for such
industrial activities as described in the proposal. This is a proposed move
of a “back to the future” idea. Because less strychnine is better than a lot
of strychnine does not justify small doses. The same with traffic flows.
Point (2)

3. The cessation of the vehicular traffic from the clay trucks has been a boon
for residential amenity. To reintroduce 24 hour truck and vehicle traffic on
a road that services residential and quiet recreational use is
unsatisfactory. Safety issues for cyclists, school children on bikes, walkers,
horse riders and current residential road users will be exacerbated. The
existing road is barely capable and most unsuitable for the traffic it now
carries. Its width, topography and base that potholes after every decent
downpour is grossly unsuitable for a renewal of commercial vehicular
traffic and maintenance will incur a heavy cost penalty to the new Council
and ratepayers.

4. The future intentions alluded to in the MCU and specified in Point (6)
simply reinforces the negative aspects of increased vehicular flows further
out along Lake Macdonald Drive. The same road design flaws will simply