1	Draft SEQ Regional Plan 2009-2031 Noosa Residents & Ratepayers Association
2	Introduction Jump around a little, using material from a few presentations done this and last year Waterway health update – apropos of nothing really, but it has pretty graphics SEQRP Context SEQRP Mapping changes Over time to see whether the Rural Production & Regional Landscape Area is protected or is a protector?! A sneak preview of 2015 Population growth: Its inevitability ... ... or not What the pollies have said ... Prefacing comments – the SEQ Regional Plan: Is powerful and cogent Does many excellent things Would be even better if what it said was true and actually implemented as policy. Alas ...
3	Waterway Health - Estuarine
4	Waterway Health - Freshwater
5	SEQRP Context Sits above Local Government planning schemes Local governments are supposed to have amended plans for consistency Local growth management strategies were supposed to have been completed and in operation
6	What is the SEQRP? If my Adobe software conversion to Word doesn’t lie, then: 2005: Around 33,277 words, with 13 maps, 6 figures and 4 tables 2009: Around 20,384 words, 23 maps, 0 figures and 5 tables
7	SEQRP: What’s in it for Noosa1? Urban footprint remains unchanged Not much else really, just administrative stuff which is quite good in itself, but not exciting for Noosa Is that as far as it goes ... ...No! What about outside the boundaries?
8	SEQRP: What’s in it for Noosa2? The Bridges Investigation Area has gone – but this is not news - but it was one mistake that has been fixed. What about other mistakes such as committing flood prone, acid sulphate prone, highway noise-affected land into the Urban Footprint? Surely these would be corrected too. No!!
9	Sunshine Coast Regional Council -c2004
10	Sunshine Coast Regional Council – 2004-2005 c2004: about 17,662ha of ‘urban commitment’ 2005: 32,912ha of Urban Footprint via the South East Queensland Regional Plan 2,250 ha. added as Urban Footprint (rather than Investigation Area), despite the land not being committed under the Caloundra planning scheme
11	Sunshine Coast Regional Council - 2009
12	Inter-Urban Breaks What are inter-urban breaks? Noosa made up of a series of places, with little breaks Sunshine Coast made up of a series of places, with bigger breaks. Greater Brisbane is kept at bay by the biggest of the inter-urban breaks. This break: Gives the Sunshine Coast identity Helps highway users know that they have left Brisbane and they know they have arrived at the Sunshine Coast Means that we are not a part of the urban sprawl of Brisbane City as the Gold Coast is.
13	Moreton Bay Regional Council – 2004-2005
14	Moreton Bay Regional Council – 2009
15	Inter-Urban Break What is it and why is it important? As the crow flies and combining north and south movements: 2004 - 27km away 2005 – 20km away 2009 – 16km away The inter-urban break is disappearing at the rate of 2.75km/year!! 4 years into the plan’s life and we have removed 40% of the inter-urban break
16	A Peek at the Future Yes, at the rate of 2.75 km per year, the government will finally have gotten rid of that pesky inter-urban break by 2015 The Electoral & Administrative Rort Commission will have once again reviewed LGA boundaries Brisbane Regional Council will be the largest ‘local’ government in the world stretching from Coolangatta in the south to Noosa in the north Frank Wilkie’s GreaterNoosa magazine (Life in the Noosa Biosphere & Beyond) has been renamed BiosphereBrisbane The most recent edition has Bob Abbot the populist Mayor of the BRC urging a population cap!
17	Regional Landscape & Rural Production Area Finally, let’s have a look at how well protected the Regional Landscape & Rural Production Area is Remember in 2004 Minister Mackenroth pledged to legislate to make sure those areas identified as regional landscape are locked in and protected. This is the area that is supposed to be preserved ... that’s going to preserve our character while millions swarm over and in it. Seems that the Regional Landscape & Rural Production Area is a threatened species in the inter-urban break
18	Population Growth
19	SEQRP Population 1
20	SEQRP Population 2
21	Is it inevitable? The politicians would like you have you believe that it is ... Former Premier Peter Beattie "I wish the growth wasn't as high as it is, in terms of numbers, but the fact is we have an additional 1,500 people every week," he said. "But it's simply not possible to [cap numbers]... (ABC News 21/05/2006) ..Deputy Premier Anna Bligh said a population cap was a simplistic solution that would place pressure on the economy. "The only way we could really do that is to put a fence up at the (Queensland) border, or to cancel or freeze all new home building approvals," she said. (22/04/2007 - The Age) ...it is my view that we need to actively embrace growth. I note comments early this week from one of our regional mayors that we should have a population cap. Well I don’t support that, even if I did I don’t think that I can constitutionally erect a barbed wire fence at the border... (16/10/2007 – Speech to Committee for Economic Development of Australia)
22	Noosa’s 1997 Strategic Plan Noosa’s 1997 Strategic Plan: Recognised the character and value of its discrete localities Recognised the environmental limits for the Shire and each locality Recognised the limits on infrastructure capability and its potential cost to the community Defined limits to growth for the Shire and each place in the Shire It was hailed as a good model and approved by the State Government.
23	State Reaction Noosa planned for a lower population outcome As the planned capacity draws near, annual rates of growth have slowed to the lowest in 20+ years – 1.2% The full scenario can be planned and achieved, just as occurs in some sensitive overseas places
24	2004 – Former Minister for Local Government & Planning Desley Boyle ENVIRONMENT Minister Desley Boyle wants interstate migrants arriving in southeast Queensland to keep on driving. She said her message to migrants arriving at the border was: "Welcome to Queensland, but keep on driving." "You might like to live at Toowoomba or Crows Nest, or maybe you'd like to go north to Hervey Bay, or maybe continue right up the coast," she said. Addressing a group of Gold Coast developers yesterday, Ms Boyle said the state's southeast was becoming overcrowded, placing extreme pressure on infrastructure and the environment. She said it was "dumb" that everyone clustered in the southeast corner when Queensland was so large. (2004 - Courier Mail)
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