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Is the Planners Report designed to bamboozle the community? Further contradictions in amendments

19/1/2021

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The Agenda for  the general meeting on Thursday contains amendments  to the Planners report recommending approval for the  Heliport. Agenda item 7.2. Report starts on page 245. The Planner appears to be hell bent on trying to justify the development despite the many inconsistencies, contradictions and omissions in both the DA and the Planners report. Clearly they are aware of public concern but their response is to amend the recommendation with   broad brush, irrelevant or just plain ludicrous justifications in favour of the proposal.

Mission Beach Cassowaries and C4 commissioned a report on the impact on cassowaries at their expense, something the Planning Department should have required the proponent to provide. The report concludes the proposal will  have  a significant impact on the   cassowaries  accessing the corridors  surrounding and adjacent to the proposed development.
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The report now quotes from the Cassowary Recovery Plan but they don't   appear to have  found the Significant Impact Guidelines for cassowaries or the Wongaling Creek Habitat Linkages report that was used to inform cassowary corridors in the CCRC Planning Scheme.
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Agenda item 7.2 Page 245
Is this all part of the ‘Activate Cassowary Coast - Development Incentive Plan that is attracting developers and speculators who have no understanding of the values special to Mission Beach?
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Reports such as this indicate  a skew in favour of developer over public interests.

The proposal does not comply with the strategic intent and desired regional outcomes for Mission Beach  in regard to   agricultural land, the environment, the cassowary and the village amenity. It must be refused.
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The proposal is also likely to have a significant impact on the endangered cassowary


Here's hoping the council will act in the public interest at their  general meeting on Thursday and at the very least defer their decision until independent impact reports are produced and the Federal Government has assessed the proposal under the EPBC Act.

Developers have an obligation to refer any development that is likely to have an impact on matters of National Environmental Significance i e World Heritage Areas and threatened species/ ecosystems, all of which are subject to impacts with this proposal.
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Julanne Sweeney
19/1/2021 12:45:12 pm

Thank you Crikey for publishing my letter supporting more coverage of Local Government . How relevant then is the need for national investigative eyes on a critical vote to be taken by the Cassowary Coast Regional Council ( in Innisfail) on Thursday 21 Jan on permission for helicopters in Cassowary habitat at Mission Beach. One CCRC Councillor with the Development portfolio belongs to a Real Estate family.

As a rate payer since 1966 to the Cassowary Coast Regional Council, (previously Johnstone Shire ) I find it hard to believe that the new Council would imperil the very bird which gives its name to our World Heritage world.

Developers have an obligation to refer any development that is likely to have an impact on matters of National Environmental Significance ( World Heritage Areas and threatened species/ ecosystems) for Federal Government assessment under the EPBC Act.

At the meeting on Thursday 21 January, if helicopters, aka developers, have a victory over the strategic intent and desired regional outcomes for Mission Beach, all Australians who remember The Castle will be shocked- and less likely to visit an area with a diminishing drawcard.

Should the CCRC be considering a name change for the cassowary extinct future ? Helicopter Heaven Regional Council?

Will Jason Murphy and Crikey be able to cover this environmental debate?

Julanne Sweeney

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Mission Beach cassowaries
19/1/2021 01:37:35 pm

Thank You Julanne

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