2020-08-11 Planning & Environment Committee Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA   11 AUGUST 2020




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PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                          11 AUGUST 2020

             Disaster management
             Have a proactive and long-term climate response will also assist with disaster management by helping to
             build Noosa’s resilience to current day natural disasters through appropriate land use and infrastructure
             planning, asset management, community disaster preparedness, and Knowledge building.
             Corporate Plan
             Relevant key focus areas of Theme 1 of the Corporate Plan include:
             e    adopt an overarching Environment Strategy - now adopted
             e    implement Council’s Zero Emissions Operational Strategy — in place since 2016.
             Theme 1 also includes the need to ‘plan our response to climate change’. The CCRP will provide a
             holistic climate response that includes the continued implementation of the outcomes and targets sought
             through the Environment Strategy, ZEN Operational Strategy and the draft Coastal Hazards Adaptation
             Plan.

             Other relevant focuses in the Corporate Plan include:
                 e   Maintain the ability to respond to disaster events (Local Disaster Management Plan)
                 e   Provide support for a sustainable tourism sector
                 e   Undertake long term financial sustainability planning incorporating Asset Management Plan
                     outcomes
                 e   Noosa Shire is an exemplar of sustainable living with an appropriate focus on natural, social and
                     economic capital
                 e   Our community assets are being maintained in accordance with our planned asset management
                     program and our asset management plans are linked to our budgets and long-term financial plan
                 e   Best practice risk management practices are embedded in decision making.

              Noosa Council Operational Plan
             Initiatives from the Operational Plan relevant to the CCRP include:
                 e   Implement the Noosa Environment Strategy
                 e   Continue implement and undertake a review of Zero Emissions Noosa Strategy (ZEN) and Action
                     Plan
                 e   Finalise the strategic review of landfill emission reduction opportunities
                 e   Finalise the Climate Change Adaptation Plan and initiate implementation of actions - now to be
                     called the Climate Change Response Plan (CCRP).
                 e   Continue to implement the Noosa Transport Strategy priority actions as determined by Council
                 e   Finalise the development of the Walking and Cycling Strategy
                 e   Implement recommendations arising from the Noosa Spit Shoreline Erosion Management Plan
                     (SEMP)
             Overarching Strategies
              The Environment Strategy includes a number of specific strategies relating to biodiversity, waterways,
              coasts, sustainable living and climate change that provide policy direction for the CCRP:

              Strategy 1.3 - Improve long-term survival for threatened species and ecological communities
              Strategy 2.2 - Protect and enhance coastal environments and vegetated buffers to coastal foreshores
              Strategy 3.1 - Reduce waste to landfill
              Strategy 3.2 - Encourage incorporation of more sustainable building elements
              Strategy 3.3 - Adopt sustainable agricultural practices
              Strategy 4.1 - Reduce emissions and resource consumption
              Strategy 4.2 - Increase community resilience and capacity to adapt to climate change

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