MCU15/0095 & REC15/0022 PM Submission Object - John Connor

                                                                    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 eisewhere in
                                                                    this document that international and Australian best
                                                                    practice demands that service station facilities be set
                                                                    back a far greater distance from the School.

  S. 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.                         the same as the access to the School and only a short
       Noosa Road which is more than suitabiy                       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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