sydney-city-centre-review-of-environmental-factors

4.3.5 City of Sydney Amendment (Central Sydney Traffic and Transport
Committee) Bill 2012
The City of Sydney Act 1988 was amended in 2012 by the above bill. As a result, the
Central Sydney Traffic and Transport Committee (CSTTC) was formed. The CSTTC
manages transport and traffic within the city centre. Part of its role is to consider how
proposed development would affect traffic from the perspective of access, safety,
public transport, freight, businesses, commuters, residents, pedestrians and visitors.
The CSTTC primarily provides a coordination function. However, it does have the
authority to review and approve certain projects that would potentially impact city
centre public roads, road-related areas, traffic or transport. These powers do not
extend to works undertaken by Roads and Maritime (refer to Section 51k of the
above bill).
Despite this, Roads and Maritime has volunteered to work in collaboration with the
committee to ensure the proposal would not result in a ‘significant impact on a public
road, road-related area, traffic or transport within the Sydney CBD’ (refer section 51L
(2) of the above bill). Chapter 5 discusses this further.
The safeguards and management measures listed in Chapter 7 have responded to
the outcome of this consultation. Principally, the proposal would be carried out under
the CTMP. The CSTTC would contribute to and review this plan prior to construction
starting onsite. The CSTTC would also review the long-term traffic modelling
forecasts to ensure the city centre’s roads would continue to provide an acceptable
level of service once the proposal is implemented. Section 6.1.4 discusses this
further.
4.4 Commonwealth Government legislation
4.4.1 Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
The Commonwealth Government Environment Protection and Biodiversity
Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) protects defined matter of national environmental
significance (NES) and Commonwealth land. Roads and Maritime is required to refer
any proposal activity to the Commonwealth Minister for Environment that it
anticipates would significantly affect any protected matter(s).
Appendix A and Chapter 8 conclude that the proposal would be unlikely to have a
significant impact on any protected matter. Consequently, it has not been referred to
the Commonwealth Government under the above Act.
4.4.2 Disability Discrimination Act 1992
The Commonwealth Government Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (the DDA) aims
to eliminate disability discrimination as far as reasonably practical.
The proposal is being progressed on behalf of Transport for NSW, which promotes
DDA compliance across all its proposals. As such, the proposal has been designed
to provide pedestrian and public transport access for people with mobility issues.
Section 3.2.2 describes how the concept design has responded to the DDA.
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