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Strategy and Planning Committee Agenda 16 February 2011 Negotiations with the developer have established agreement on all of the items, including: • the open space allocation as shown on Attachment 8 – Open Space Network; • sporting fields contribution of $4,367,864 in lieu of land; • walkable waterfront as shown on Attachment 7 – Pedestrian and Cycle Network; • the lake and marina financial contribution for maintenance and end of life replacement costs; and • the pedestrian/cycle bridges over the lake. Negotiations relating to the provision of combined land and building facilities for a District Community Facility ended in the applicant agreeing to supply the full 6,000m² of land as required by the Policy. Prior to the consideration of this application, the Divisional Councillor was approached by a resident who represented 6 landowners owing property adjacent to a former stage of the Pelican Waters Estate on Westminster Avenue (refer to Attachment 11). The landowners requested that Council acquire 3 parcels of land that would otherwise be available for residential use, because they were concerned that these lots significantly impacted on the streetscape and amenity of the area. The allotments in question are 300m 2 in area and are scattered amongst standard 700m 2 allotments. These allotments were validly approved in 2004. The owners of Pelican Waters, being aware of the situation, voluntarily offered to withhold these allotments from the market until negotiations over the Southern Lake Preliminary Approval were determined. These parcels did not form part of the Preliminary Approval document and, if negotiated, could only be secured through the provision of an infrastructure agreement. The applicant has proposed an option for Council to secure the 3 allotments, which involves Council discounting the financial contribution for the sporting fields, by the estimated market value of the 3 allotments. Without detailed valuations, this amount is estimated to be in the order of $250,000 per allotment, with a total reduction in the financial contribution of approximately $750,000. Council’s Manager, Social Policy Branch, was consulted on whether the applicant's offer was reasonable and concluded that the land adjacent to the residents’ parcels in Westminster Avenue was of minimal benefit when compared to the need to acquire land for sportsgrounds, as the allotments were too small to provide for the identified sports demand. It was advised that the loss of financial contribution for the purchase of additional sporting facilities would impact on a considerably higher number of current and future residents. It has, therefore, been recommended that the financial contribution not be amended and that the subject allotments located on Westminster Avenue not be included in an infrastructure agreement related to this Preliminary Approval. An infrastructure agreement is currently being drafted in accordance with the verbal agreements. The recommendation has been worded to require the infrastructure agreement to be signed prior to any decision, as occurred with the Palmview Infrastructure Agreement. Page 22
Strategy and Planning Committee Agenda 16 February 2011 INTRODUCTION Background/Site History In 1987, the Council decided to prepare a Development Control Plan to cover the whole of the Pelican Waters land area. In 1991, the first Development Control Plan (Development Control Plan 2) for the Golden Beach area, which was inclusive of the most of the Pelican Waters Estate, was gazetted. Most notably, Development Control Plan 2 identified a District Centre and an area for community facilities generally in the location of this development. In 1993, the Planning and Environment Court approved a Rezoning application over approximately one third of the area identified under Development Control Plan 2. The rezoned land was inclusive of the future District Centre, a large area of conventional residential subdivision and the northern lake development. The developer commenced the subdivision of the residential land component in 1994, with a number of the initial stages approved as part of the Rezoning Approval. The Pelican Waters Shopping Centre was opened in 2002 and incorporates a supermarket, mini-major, specialty stores and a tavern. The total existing gross floor area is approximately 7,000m². In 2004, the developer received subdivision approval for the northern lake subdivision (334 residential lots, parkland and lake). Today, there are 3 stages (approximately 120 lots) remaining within the northern lake subdivision, which are likely to be registered within the next 12 months. The lake associated with this subdivision is brackish and circulation is provided via a pumping installation located on the Pumicestone Passage at Golden Beach. The lake outlets into Lamerough Canal via a weir with a mechanical loch system for boat movement between the waterways. An Infrastructure Agreement is established that obligates the developer to provide a contribution of $2.5 million towards the maintenance and operation of the lake infrastructure. In 1996, Council approved a Rezoning application over the balance of the estate (southern lakes), which included most of the land subject to this application, the golf course land and subdivision, and an environmental reserve and noise buffer in the north-west corner of the developer’s remaining land holdings. The golf course and related subdivisions commenced construction in 1999. The most recent subdivision, approved in June 2010, was over an area of land immediately to the west of the Southern Lake proposal. The conditions of the 1996 Rezoning approval continue to run with the land, and have implications on the development of this area. Attachment 13 provides a review of the proposal against the conditions of the rezoning and identifies those conditions that are outstanding and yet to be completed. Council amended Development Control Plan 2, which then formed part of the 1996 Planning Scheme, to reflect the outcomes sought by the 1996 Rezoning approval. At this stage the Development Control Plan identified a District Shopping Centre, Community Facilities, 2 Neighbourhood Parks - one of which was to contain Playing Fields, an extension to Jensen Park and a Village Park, over the land subject to this application. In 2001, the developer obtained approval from Council to extract a part of the Environmental Noise Buffer in the north-west corner of the site for the purpose of a school (The Caloundra City School). Development Control Plan 2 was amended to reflect this approval and the Caloundra City School commenced use in 2004. Page 23
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