LMCC Housing Strategy 2019
The ‘Let’s Thrive Housing Strategy 2019’ explored how we’ll live, where we’ll live and how much land was going to be clear felled or infilled for this purpose. Some excerpts from the CPPA submission are:
The Carey Bay Medium density zoning and the Excelsior Pde/Brighton Ave corridor area offer a strategic opportunity to diversify the housing mix within the community and support the downsizing of the ageing population within the context of an engaged community that values its bushland assets.
The connection to our local bushland through bushland corridors and parklands gives our peninsula community a unique point of difference. The bushland aesthetic accompanied by the proximity to the lake is highly valued and makes our community ‘highly liveable’. Maintaining the community aesthetic and values, retains and builds on the fabric of the community.
Our community offers an opportunity to ‘Facilitate innovative design and delivery mechanisms’ to provide for the mix of social and cultural diversity. The identified action within the strategy to amend planning controls, to encourage, smaller dwellings, secondary dwellings and small-scale infill and compact alternative housing types provides opportunities to reimagine community that will be resilient in a climate changing world. Sustainable settlements with design options that are community focused, share community assets and reinforce communal spaces are acknowledged as important in redefining our communities of the future and planning controls need to facilitate these options.
Within the context of Carey Bay precinct, any changes to the LEP/DCP need to be commensurate with the scale of the B1 zoned ‘shopping centre’ and the surrounding low-density zone. The small shopping complex has been used to justify the medium density zoning around Carey Bay and is increasingly referenced as justification for excessive development. This centre is constrained by its location and surrounded by both low and medium density. Low density zoning still dominates our community and any increase in density needs “To maintain and enhance the residential amenity and character of the surrounding area.”
Blanket decisions to “Increase height limit for the R3 Medium Residential zone and B1 Local Centre zone to better accommodate residential flat buildings” will not reflect the scale or context of these zonings within our community and this action is not supported.
The predominant zoning within our community is low density. Any review of setbacks, width and lot size needs incorporation of transition zones between low and medium density zonings, to protect existing residents’ “scenic, aesthetic and cultural heritage qualities of the built and natural environment” and retain the bushland connections and corridors.
The facilitation of community discussion within the Carey Bay medium density zoning and surrounds would be a welcome action to arise from this strategy. Providing residents with the opportunity to partner in the transition of the community would provide opportunities to explore and masterplan the transition to increased density instead of piecemeal development proposals. Engaging with the community in this manner would provide a new methodology to achieve infill requirements with a community consensus, additionally providing opportunities for existing property owners to consider infill options on their land. Global megatrends that are predicting an increase in cooperative structures and enhanced democracy would align well with this approach.
The Coal Point Progress Association looks forward to discussing with Council an innovative and collaborative locality-based approach to the delivery of diverse housing supply within our community, which protects our local environment and ensures that our residents continue to be able to have options to live amongst our community with their family and friends.
You can read the CPPA’s complete Housing Strategy submission here.
Draft Environmental Sustainability Strategy and Action Plan 2020-2027(ESSAP)
The Draft Environmental Sustainability Strategy and Action Plan 2020-2027(ESSAP) also received local scrutiny. The CPPA was involved in the development of the response submitted by Toronto Area Sustainable Neighbourhood Group, whole-heartedly endorsing their submission. The following comments were made in addition to the TASNG submission, both of which are available on the CPPA website.
The ESSAP is a crucial document to ensure the long-term health and maintenance of the unique environmental assets of our City. The connected bushland that still spans the City provides a point of difference to other urbanised centres and a considerable head-start on meeting UN Sustainability Development Goals. This sets our City apart from our urban neighbours, Newcastle, Central Coast and Sydney.
A Strategy that values the biodiversity, connectivity and environmental services provided by native vegetation would endeavour to reverse the loss of native vegetation cover which is currently embedded in the ESSAP at 57.5% and strive for 60% cover, a point at which the integrity of the ecosystem function and environmental services are sustainable and providing an economic contribution.
The projected loss of 70ha/year of native vegetation cover is not sustainable. At a point, below 60% vegetation cover, the integrity of the ecosystem function and environmental services provided becomes compromised and increasingly additional resources are needed to be expended to furnish the services that vegetation cover supplies by virtue of its existence. It is a false economy to deplete a resource in the short term without any regard for intergenerational equity and the escalating climate change impacts that are being experienced.
Within this context an economic model that is driven by value adding to the existing vegetation assets, using them to connect communities and encourage recreational endeavours through appropriate infrastructure, would proffer opportunities to drive an eco-tourism market that supports retention and protection of native vegetation for the social and economic health of the City.
The next document for consideration is the Coastal Management Program https://shape.lakemac.com.au/coastal exploring issues to ‘identify new opportunities to improve the health of our lake, waterways and coastline while maintaining community access and recreation in these areas.’ Ideas on the future management of the lake are being sought. This plan will resonate with the protection of the foreshore and may provide guidance on how the Toronto Foreshore Masterplan rolls out.
The ESSAP is a crucial document to ensure the long-term health and maintenance of the unique environmental assets of our City. The connected bushland that still spans the City provides a point of difference to other urbanised centres and a considerable head-start on meeting UN Sustainability Development Goals. This sets our City apart from our urban neighbours, Newcastle, Central Coast and Sydney.
A Strategy that values the biodiversity, connectivity and environmental services provided by native vegetation would endeavour to reverse the loss of native vegetation cover which is currently embedded in the ESSAP at 57.5% and strive for 60% cover, a point at which the integrity of the ecosystem function and environmental services are sustainable and providing an economic contribution.
The projected loss of 70ha/year of native vegetation cover is not sustainable. At a point, below 60% vegetation cover, the integrity of the ecosystem function and environmental services provided becomes compromised and increasingly additional resources are needed to be expended to furnish the services that vegetation cover supplies by virtue of its existence. It is a false economy to deplete a resource in the short term without any regard for intergenerational equity and the escalating climate change impacts that are being experienced.
Within this context an economic model that is driven by value adding to the existing vegetation assets, using them to connect communities and encourage recreational endeavours through appropriate infrastructure, would proffer opportunities to drive an eco-tourism market that supports retention and protection of native vegetation for the social and economic health of the City.
The next document for consideration is the Coastal Management Program https://shape.lakemac.com.au/coastal exploring issues to ‘identify new opportunities to improve the health of our lake, waterways and coastline while maintaining community access and recreation in these areas.’ Ideas on the future management of the lake are being sought. This plan will resonate with the protection of the foreshore and may provide guidance on how the Toronto Foreshore Masterplan rolls out.
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