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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Local</strong> <strong>Agenda</strong> <strong>21</strong> <strong>Planning</strong> <strong>Guide</strong><br />
Committee was required to focus upon, deliberate, and make recommendations on, included:<br />
ECONOMIC PLANNING: allocation of land for business and industry; infrastructure needs of business and industry; identity and<br />
provision for development of tourism; protection of agricultural land and other industry resources; impediments to economic<br />
development; and search for common ground between economic development and sound environmental management.<br />
ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING: identification and conservation of natural resources; integration of World Heritage Area planning and<br />
findings of the Johnstone River Catchment Management project into the Plan; preservation of biological diversity; and search for<br />
common ground between economic development and sound environmental management.<br />
SOCIAL PLANNING: access to adequate housing; leisure and recreational needs; cultural development; heritage conservation; and<br />
provision of needs for special populations, including children, youth, women, ethnic communities, the elderly, and people with<br />
disabilities.<br />
MISSION BEACH & ENVIRONS: encourage coordination between the different agencies (local and state government), with a<br />
responsibility for planning the future growth and development of the Mission Beach Area.<br />
Decisions and recommendations taken by the Consultative Committees were transmitted to the relevant municipal departments for<br />
action through the weekly meetings of the Council’s Senior Management Group.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Consultative Committees played a significant role in influencing the outcomes of the Johnstone Plan. For example, in the case<br />
of the Mission Beach exercise, the Council deferred all the main decisions to that Committee. Once consensus was reached, the<br />
Council endorsed the decision. Through partnership involvement in the committees, there was consensus and ownership of the final<br />
plan.<br />
Peak Bodies<br />
Council also encouraged and facilitated the establishment of a number of “Peak Bodies,” both prior to and during the planning<br />
process. Peak Bodies were formed in response to the specific needs of a key constituency or interest group with the intention of<br />
providing input into the planning process. <strong>The</strong> Council undertook joint planning studies with each body and incorporated the<br />
relevant findings into the final plan. <strong>The</strong> Peak Bodies thus formed included:<br />
• Johnstone River Integrated Catchment Management (ICM) Committee/Johnstone Shire River Improvement<br />
Trust;<br />
• Consultative Committee for Cassowary Conservation (C4);<br />
• Cassowary Coast Development Board;<br />
• Johnstone Shire Cultural Association;<br />
• Sporting Peak Bodies; and<br />
• Aerodrome Management Group.<br />
<strong>The</strong> joint studies successfully completed with the Council, include:<br />
• Economic Development Strategy (March 1994)—a joint study with the Cassowary Coast Development Board;<br />
• joint study with the ICM committee to ascertain mechanism for incorporating ICM outcomes into the Johnstone<br />
Plan (August 1994);<br />
• joint study with C4 committee to map and evaluate all cassowary habitats in the shire, and to derive guidelines for<br />
acceptable development; and<br />
• joint study with adjoining local authority (Cardwell Shire) for Mission Beach.<br />
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