MCU15/0095 & REC15/0022 PM Submissions Object - Petition

                                                                   practice demands that service station facilities be set
                                                                   back a far greater distance from the School.

   2. The nearest structure                on the school           The relevance of this statement is unclear and if
        boundary is the pump house for the                         anything demonstrates the proximity of the proposed
        school pool                                                service station to the School pool facilities used by
                                                                   toddlers and young children.

   3. The          proposed    service station  is                 Visual distinction is the least of the concerns that are
        orientated       away from the school and                  associated with the location of a service station
        towards        the    Eumundi.        Noosa      Road      adjacent to, indeed adjoining, a School and its
        frontage,        providing      visual   distinction       associated health and physical education facilities.
        between both sites.

   4. The service station     refuelling area is The Applicant provides no justification for its
        sufficiently
                   distanced from the school assertion that the Development "is sufficiently
        boundary which is greater than 25m.      distanced from the school boundary which is greater
                                                                   than 25m."


                                                                   In the contrary we have demonstrated      elsewhere in
                                                                   this document that international and Australian best
                                                                   practice demands that service station facilities be set
                                                                   back a far greater distance from the School.

   5. All vehicle access relating to the service                   The relevance of this statement is once again unclear.
        station     and future          proposed       lot     2   The access being off Eumundi-Noosa Road, which is
        development          is obtained     via Eumundi       M

                                                                   the same as the accessto the School and only a short
        Noosa Road which is more than suitably                     distance away creates the potential      for increased
        distanced from the school access off                       traffic   queuing and obstruction    along the short
        Walter Hay Drive.                                          stretch of road between the two entrances.

   6.   A dedicated pedestrian pathway from                        Again the relevance of this statement is unclear. The
        Walter      Hay Drive        is proposed. This             pathway provides no additional protection for the
        pathway      connects        Walter      Hay Drive         School children. Indeed it provides further unwanted
        directly    to    the    site     and    the    store      opportunity for children to access the shop, which is
        building, thus reducing any potential                      undoubtedly the main purpose of the development,
        conflict     between            pedestrians          and   that is to encourage the school children to purchase
        vehicles.                                                  from the shop and increase the profits to the owner
                                                                   at the expense of - and threat to -         the School
                                                                   children.


The Applicant has also failed to respond seriously and comprehensively to Council's request for further
information regarding the Airborne Hazards in proximity to the School identified by Council as an area of
critical importance to the Development application:


  Applicant's Response                     Objectors' Response

  1. Benzene as an active                  The Applicant provides mere idle assertion in the face of the evidence



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