MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
The 4422 meeting of the Brisbane City Council,
held at City Hall, Brisbane
on Tuesday 19 November 2013
at 2pm
Prepared by:
Council and Committees Support
Chief Executive’s Office
Office of the Lord Mayor and the Chief Executive Officer
MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
THE 4422 MEETING OF THE BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL,HELD AT CITY HALL, BRISBANE,
ON TUESDAY 19 NOVEMBER 2013
AT 2PM
[4422 (Ordinary) meeting – 19 November 2013]
MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
THE 4422 MEETING OF THE BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL,HELD AT CITY HALL, BRISBANE,
ON TUESDAY 19 NOVEMBER 2013
AT 2PM
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS i
PRESENT: 1
OPENING OF MEETING: 1
APOLOGY: 1
MINUTES: 1
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION: 1
QUESTION TIME: 4
CONSIDERATION OF COMMITTEE REPORTS: 15
ESTABLISHMENT AND COORDINATION COMMITTEE 15
A AMENDMENT TO THE BRISBANE CITY PLAN 2000 – APPENDIX 5 (BRISBANE PRIORITY INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN 2011) 35
B AMENDMENTS TO AREA CLASSIFICATIONS AND DEMOLITION CONTROL PRECINCTS IN BRISBANE CITY PLAN 2000 36
C ALLOCATION OF FUNDING — COMMUNITY CONSERVATION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 2013-14 38
D ADOPTION OF NATURAL ASSETS AMENDING LOCAL LAW 2013 AND DELEGATION OF POWERS UNDER THE CITY OF BRISBANE ACT 2010 39
INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE 42
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – PORTABLE SPEED WARNING SIGNS PROJECT UPDATE 44
B PETITION – REQUESTING COUNCIL TO INVESTIGATE THE INSTALLATION OF A RIGHT-TURN ARROW AT THE INTERSECTION OF LYTTON ROAD AND HEIDELBERG STREET, EAST BRISBANE 45
C PETITION – REQUESTING COUNCIL TO CLOSE MYRTLE STREET, GRANGE, AT ITS INTERSECTION WITH GRANGE ROAD, FOR PUBLIC SAFETY 47
PUBLIC AND ACTIVE TRANSPORT COMMITTEE 50
B PETITION – REQUESTING FUNDING IN THE 2013-14 BUDGET FOR CONSTRUCTION OF RIVERWALK FROM MOWBRAY PARK, EAST BRISBANE, TO CAIRNS STREET, KANGAROO POINT 54
NEIGHBOURHOOD PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE 55
A ELECTRONIC DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION (DISTRIBUTOR-RETAILER) UNDER THE SUSTAINABLE PLANNING ACT 2009 – PROPOSED MULTI-UNIT DWELLING – 26, 28 AND 30 COMER STREET; 20, 22, 24 AND 26MACGROARTY STREET; AND 997 AND 999 BOUNDARY ROAD, COOPERS PLAINS – THE STATE OF QUEENSLAND 57
ENVIRONMENT, PARKS AND SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE 59
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – PARKS PLACEMAKING AND ACTIVATION 63
B PARK NAMING – FORMAL NAMING OF THE EXISTING PARKLAND AT THE CORNER OF HOYLAND AND KLUVER STREETS, BALD HILLS, KNOWN AS HOYLAND STREET PARK NUMBER 6, AS ‘CHRIS BRUNTON PARK’ 64
C PETITION – REQUESTING THAT COUNCIL FORMALLY CHANGE THE NAME OF BECCARIA PLACE PARK, LOCATED IN BECCARIA PLACE, DOOLANDELLA, TO ‘BECCARIA PARK’ 65
FIELD SERVICES COMMITTEE 67
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – COUNCIL’S MOSQUITO MANAGEMENT 2012-13 PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS 68
B PETITIONS – REQUESTING THAT COUNCIL RESURFACE RAEBURNSTREET, MANLY WEST 70
C PETITIONS – OBJECTING TO THE PROPOSAL TO REMOVE THE BLUE AND ORANGE BINS FROM BOUNDARY STREET, WEST END, AND REPLACE THEM WITH LARGER CAPACITY BIN ENCLOSURES 71
BRISBANE LIFESTYLE COMMITTEE 72
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – LORD MAYOR’S WRITERS IN RESIDENCE 77
B PETITION – OPPOSING FUNDING AND SUPPORT FOR THE GAY AND LESBIAN FESTIVAL 78
C PETITION – CONTINUE FUNDING AND SUPPORT FOR THE GAY AND LESBIAN FESTIVAL 79
MOTION FOR SUSPENSION OF STANDING RULES: 81
FINANCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE 82
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION — CHRISTMAS IN THE CITY 2013 84
CONSIDERATION OF NOTIFIED MOTION – Request that the Lord Mayor bring the River Edge Strategy and City Centre Masterplan to full Council: 85
PRESENTATION OF PETITIONS: 91
GENERAL BUSINESS: 91
QUESTIONS OF WHICH DUE NOTICE HAS BEEN GIVEN: 93
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS OF WHICH DUE NOTICE HAS BEEN GIVEN: 95
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PRESENT:
The Right Honourable the LORD MAYOR (Councillor Graham QUIRK) – LNP
The Chairman of Council, Councillor MargaretdeWIT (Pullenvale Ward) – LNP
LNP Councillors (and Wards) / ALP Councillors (and Wards)Krista ADAMS (Wishart)
Matthew BOURKE (Jamboree)
Amanda COOPER (Bracken Ridge)
Vicki HOWARD (Central)
Steven HUANG (Macgregor)
Fiona KING (Marchant)
GeraldineKNAPP (The Gap)
Kim MARX (Karawatha)
PeterMATIC (Toowong)
Ian McKENZIE (Holland Park)
David McLACHLAN (Hamilton)
Ryan MURPHY (Doboy)
Angela OWEN-TAYLOR (Parkinson) (Deputy Chairman of Council)
Adrian SCHRINNER (Chandler) (Deputy Mayor)
Julian SIMMONDS (Walter Taylor)
Andrew WINES (Enoggera) / Milton DICK (Richlands) (The Leader of the Opposition)
Helen ABRAHAMS (The Gabba) (Deputy Leader of the Opposition)
PeterCUMMING (Wynnum Manly)
KimFLESSER (Northgate)
SteveGRIFFITHS (Moorooka)
VictoriaNEWTON (Deagon)
ShayneSUTTON (Morningside)
Independent Councillor (and Ward)
Nicole JOHNSTON (Tennyson)
OPENING OF MEETING:
The Chairman, Councillor Margaret de WIT, opened the meeting with prayer, and then proceeded with the business set out in the Agenda.
APOLOGY:
316/2013-14
An apology was submitted on behalf of Councillor Norm WYNDHAM, and he was granted leave of absence from the meeting on the motion of Councillor Ryan MURPHY, seconded by Councillor Kim MARX.
MINUTES:
317/2013-14
The Minutes of the 4421 meeting of Council held on 12 November 2013, copies of which had been forwarded to each councillor, were presented, taken as read and confirmed on the motion of Councillor Ryan MURPHY, seconded by Councillor Kim MARX.
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION:
Chairman: I would like to call on Ms Joan McGuire who will address the Chamber on concerns relating to changes to the 234 bus route. Orderly, would you please show Ms Maguire in?
Ms Maguire, you have five minutes; please proceed.
Ms Joan Maguire – Concerns with changes to the 234 bus route
File number: 137/220/701/170
Ms Joan Maguire: Madam Chair, LORD MAYOR, councillors: my name is Joan Maguire. I live in Kangaroo Point and have done for six years, going on seven. A lot of the people around the area are elderly and have mobility problems. We weren't worried about the changes of the bus route and the numbers until we found out that they did not access the actual places where we need to go, like the Princess Alexandra (PA) Hospital and the Valley precinct.
I myself am diabetic, and last Saturday I had a turn, and my glucose level went down to 4.3. I was up at the City Library; I never had money for a taxi; I never had money to get a sandwich. I had enough money to get a bottle of iced coffee, which I had. I made my way down to Woolworths to catch the bus home, only to find out I had 50 minutes to wait. Now, anything could have happened in that 50 minutes, and it's the first time I've had a turn.
The buses used to run every half an hour, but waiting 50 minutes, I didn't feel safe. I thought I might pass out and have to go to hospital. A lot of the citizens or the people around in my area, especially my unit block, have got mobility problems, so therefore they have trouble getting to the doctors; they have trouble with their hospital appointments; they have trouble getting to get their food. So what are they doing? They are not doing their shopping; they are not getting their medication. They are cancelling appointments because they cannot get there.
It takes me two hours now to get from the Kangaroo Point cliffs to Burke Street Diabetic Clinic, where it used to take me three-quarters of an hour. The reason why is because I've got to catch a bus down to the busway, change there for the bus to get me to the PA Hospital, to walk up the hill to get the shuttle around to Burke Street.
I had to catch the 10 to eight bus in the morning to make a 10 o'clock appointment at the Diabetic Clinic. If I miss that bus, then I am really struggling because I cannot get the 9 o'clock shuttle around. But that's just me. At least I've got my mobility. I'm only just starting to get it back because I've had problems with my feet and not being able to walk.
So how are the seniors going with their little wheelie walkers? Going up the hill to the bus is bad enough, but having to wait an hour, and then when you leave the PA Hospital, you get a bus back down to the busway, but you've got to sit 50minutes there, and wait for a bus to come home. Four stops that people can't walk. A 70-year-old gentleman in my unit block has cancer. He has to go to the PA Hospital three times a week. He cannot afford taxis either way. He has to do the bus. After he's had his treatment, and he comes out of the PA Hospital and then goes and sits at the bus station for 50 minutes, it's wrong. He doesn't want to sit there if he's had treatment. He wants to get home to his own place, where he can put his feet up, have a cup of tea, and go to sleep if he wants.
With summer coming, there's going to be people out there, especially seniors or women with young children, who I've seen left at the bus stop because the bus didn't stop for them. They just come and went straight past, and they're out there hailing them. It left me in tears. However, those people with summer coming can dehydrate, suffer heatstroke, just because a bus that we thought - okay, run the bus from the city, down to the PA Hospital, the way it is. Just the way the 475 was. Just an extra couple of minutes through the Valley; the time it takes buses to turn into the busway, they can be down at the PA Hospital to come back every half an hour, and that is all that I am here to ask: that you would reconsider, and that's it.
Chairman: Thank you, Ms Maguire. If you would like to just take a seat; Councillor MATIC, would you like to respond?
Response by Councillor Peter MATIC, Chairman of the Public and Active Transport Committee
Councillor MATIC: Thank you, Madam Chairman, and thank you, Ms Maguire, for your attendance today and for informing us of the circumstances that you're going through currently. I certainly regret the inconvenience caused to you by your recent turn with your diabetic attack, and I hope that things are improving for you in that regard.
There are a few things that I'd like to bring to your attention in respect of these changes and to try to assist you as best I can moving forwards in this process. In about May of this year, we were requested by TransLink to undertake a review of Brisbane City Council's transport network in our buses, as part of an attempt to provide efficiencies and provide savings longer term in order that TransLink could address the issue of fares and the increases that residents were facing in the cost of those fares.
As part of that process, we were asked to look at wherever we could provide those efficiencies. In undertaking that, we understood that there would be circumstances that would in some way inconvenience people, and we attempted to minimise those as much as we could. As part of that review, we were able to leave about 70 per cent of the network untouched. But for the balance of the network, such as the 475 service which subsequently became the 234, what we attempted to do was look at where there was low patronage and duplication of services, so that we could look at what we could do in those spaces.
But the important aspect of whatever we did, in respect of those changes, was to ensure that you were not left without an alternative service in some form. So, as part of that review, what we did was we looked at the 475 which runs through Bardon, went through the city to the Valley, through your area down in Kangaroo Point, and eventually down to the PA and then back again.
One of the things we saw was that, because of the length of the trip, particularly in the peak periods, there was a lot of congestion through the CBD, so the reliability of the timetable was deeply affected. We used to have regular complaints on both sides of the river around its efficiencies.
One of the other things that we also looked at was that patronage after the CBD and that final pit stop at the PA. On average, there were about 46 passengers per day that made that final stop at the PA, which equated to about one-and-a-half people per trip that were making that final stop. So, we looked at that and we thought, how could we try to improve that service in its reliability? So we broke it up into two services. The 234 came from that.
One of the things that came out of that was the necessity to still provide that connectivity to the PA Hospital for residents such as yourself. The 475, as you were saying, stopped at the base of the PA Hospital and residents either had to walk up the hill, or the hospital provided a shuttle service. So, what we did then was we said, well, we understand that that is still an important service for you, so what could we provide as an alternative? What we did was, by making the pit stop at Woolloongabba Station, we said, okay, how do people then provide that connection to the PA Hospital? You mentioned that you still catch a bus that takes you to the base of the hospital, and then you've got to work your way up or catch that shuttle.
One of the things that came out of that was having a look at what else was available to you. That 100 BUZ which I'm assuming you're catching still takes you to the base of the PA. But there is also an alternative for you, and that is the route 29. That particular service is a high frequency service that goes to Woolloongabba; it has a five to 10-minute frequency; it runs from 6.45 in the morning until 7.15 at night, and it actually stops at the PA, where previously you would have had to have walked up the hill or, alternatively, used the shuttle service from there.