MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
The 4518 meeting of the Brisbane City Council,
held at City Hall, Brisbane
on Tuesday 28 February 2017
at 2pm
Prepared by:
Council and Committee Liaison Office
City Administration and Governance
[4518 (Ordinary) Meeting – 28 February 2017]
MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
THE 4518 MEETING OF THE BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL,HELD AT CITY HALL, BRISBANE,
ON TUESDAY 28 FEBRUARY 2017
AT 2PM
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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PRESENT: 1
OPENING OF MEETING: 1
MINUTES: 2
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION: 2
QUESTION TIME: 5
CONSIDERATION OF COMMITTEE REPORTS: 27
ESTABLISHMENT AND COORDINATION COMMITTEE 27
A HEMMANT-LYTTON NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN 48
B OVERSEAS TRAVEL – 2017 LORD MAYORAL BUSINESS MISSION TO THE 2017 ASIA PACIFIC CITIES SUMMIT (2017APCS) & MAYORS’ FORUM IN DAEJEON, SOUTH KOREA AND THE CITIES OF BEIJING, CHONGQING, CHENGDU AND SHENZHEN IN CHINA 49
C MAJOR AMENDMENT TO BRISBANE CITY PLAN 2014 – PACKAGE E 50
PUBLIC AND ACTIVE TRANSPORT COMMITTEE 51
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – BUS STOP ACCESSIBILITY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM 54
INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE 55
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – BRISBANE METROPOLITAN TRANSPORT MANAGEMENT CENTRE – EMERGENCY VEHICLE PRIORITY PROJECT 57
B PETITION – REQUESTING A YELLOW LINE ON AUSTRAL AVENUE, GRACEVILLE 58
C PETITION – REQUESTING COUNCIL TO KEEP THE INNER CITY BYPASS EXPANSION OUT OF VICTORIA PARK 59
CITY PLANNING COMMITTEE 63
A DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION UNDER SUSTAINABLE PLANNING ACT 2009 — DEVELOPMENT PERMIT — MATERIAL CHANGE OF USE FOR A RESIDENTIAL CARE FACILITY AND PRELIMINARY APPROVAL TO CARRY OUT OPERATIONAL WORK (FILLING AND EXCAVATION) AND TO CARRY OUT BUILDING WORK — 242 CHURCH ROAD, TAIGUM — McKENZIE AGED CARE 68
B PETITION – REQUESTING COUNCIL REZONE LAND AND REMOVE THE TRADITIONAL BUILDING CHARACTER OVERLAY FROM PROPERTIES IN CANNON HILL 70
ENVIRONMENT, PARKS AND SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE 72
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – LEGACY WAY ENVIRONMENTAL OFFSETS PROJECT 74
B PARK NAMING – FORMAL NAMING OF PARK CURRENTLY KNOWN AS ‘VALARIA AVENUE PARK’ TO ‘ROBERT HANLEY PARK’ 75
FIELD SERVICES COMMITTEE 77
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – ROADMARKING OVERVIEW 77
LIFESTYLE AND COMMUNITY SERVICES COMMITTEE 78
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – BRISBANE ACCESS AND INCLUSION PLAN 2012-2017 83
FINANCE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE 85
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – CITY SAFE UPGRADE PROJECT 86
B COMMITTEE REPORT – BANK AND INVESTMENT REPORT – 25NOVEMBER 2016 86
C COMMITTEE REPORT – BANK AND INVESTMENT REPORT – 23DECEMBER 2016 87
D COMMITTEE REPORT – BANK AND INVESTMENT REPORT – 27JANUARY 2017 87
PRESENTATION OF PETITIONS: 88
GENERAL BUSINESS: 88
QUESTIONS OF WHICH DUE NOTICE HAS BEEN GIVEN: 91
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PRESENT:
The Right Honourable the LORD MAYOR (Councillor Graham QUIRK) – LNP
The Chairman of Council, Councillor Angela OWEN (Calamvale Ward) – LNP
LNP Councillors (and Wards) / ALP Councillors (and Wards)Krista ADAMS (Holland Park)
Adam ALLAN (Northgate)
Matthew BOURKE (Jamboree)
Amanda COOPER (Bracken Ridge)
Vicki HOWARD (Central) (Deputy Chairman of Council)
Steven HUANG (Macgregor)
Fiona KING (Marchant)
Kim MARX (Runcorn)
PeterMATIC (Paddington)
Ian McKENZIE (Coorparoo)
David McLACHLAN (Hamilton)
Ryan MURPHY (Doboy)
Kate RICHARDS (Pullenvale)
Adrian SCHRINNER (Chandler) (Deputy Mayor)
Julian SIMMONDS (Walter Taylor)
Steven TOOMEY (The Gap)
Andrew WINES (Enoggera)
NormWYNDHAM (McDowall) / PeterCUMMING (Wynnum Manly) (The Leader of the Opposition)
Jared CASSIDY (Deagon) (Deputy Leader of the Opposition)
SteveGRIFFITHS (Moorooka)
Charles STRUNK (Forest Lake)
ShayneSUTTON (Morningside)
Queensland Greens Councillor (and Ward)
Jonathan SRI (The Gabba)
Independent Councillor (and Ward)
Nicole JOHNSTON (Tennyson)
OPENING OF MEETING:
The Chairman, Councillor Angela OWEN, opened the meeting with prayer and acknowledged the traditional custodians, and then proceeded with the business set out in the Agenda.
Chairman: I declare the meeting open.
Are there any apologies?
There being no apologies, Councillors, before we have confirmation of the Minutes, I would like to remind all Councillors of the situation when you are provided with raw transcript of the Council meetings—it is raw transcript only, and it is not for public distribution or disclosure.
The publicly available Minutes are placed on the Council website after they have been passed by this Chamber. As has been the case with former Chairmen, and previously as I have reminded Councillors of this term of Council on 6August 2016, disclosure of the raw transcript will be treated under section 12(1) of the Meetings Local Law should this occur again, as an act of disorder.
Confirmation of Minutes, please.
MINUTES:
378/2016-17
The Minutes of the 4517 meeting of Council held on 21 February 2017, copies of which had been forwarded to each Councillor, were presented, taken as read and confirmed on the motion of Councillor Andrew WINES, seconded by Councillor Steven TOOMEY.
Councillor JOHNSTON: Point of order, Madam Chairman.
Chairman: Point of order, Councillor JOHNSTON.
Councillor JOHNSTON: Just to clarify your ruling and understand what you’re saying, if someone releases the Council Minutes outside of a Council meeting, which is the only way they can do that, are you saying that you will be regulating their conduct outside this Chamber, in the Chamber?
Chairman: Councillor JOHNSTON, as I have just explained, you have morphed two things together. The raw transcript is precisely that—raw transcript for Councillors to check the record of the meeting, and that is not for disclosure. This is advised to all Councillors on the email that they receive with the raw transcript each and every week.
The Minutes are not the Minutes of this Council until they are passed by the Chamber. So the Minutes are the publicly available documentation of the Council Meeting. The raw transcript is for use by Councillors to verify their statements.
Councillor JOHNSTON: Point of order, Madam Chairman.
Chairman: Point of order, Councillor JOHNSTON.
Councillor JOHNSTON: I did understand all of that the first time, but your ruling, which I am seeking to clarify, is that you will be treating any revelation of these Minutes or the raw transcripts as a matter of disorder. So I am seeking your clarification on whether or not you are planning to regulate the conduct of Councillors that happens outside this Chamber, inside the Chamber at a different Council Meeting.
Chairman: Councillor JOHNSTON, as has been the practice by previous Chairmen in this place, and as has been placed on the Council record, disclosure of the raw transcript will be treated under section 12(1) of the Meetings Local Law as an act of disorder. That is the precedent in this place, and it certainly was advised in this Chamber in 2013. I reaffirmed on 6 August 2016 that Councillors are not to engage in this practice, and I am reaffirming that position today. I would now like to call—
Councillor JOHNSTON: Point of order, Madam Chairman.
Chairman: Councillor JOHNSTON, don’t interrupt me when I am speaking. I was calling on the public—
Councillor JOHNSTON: Point of order, Madam Chairman.
Chairman: Point of order, Councillor JOHNSTON.
Councillor JOHNSTON: I move dissent in your ruling. You have no power to authorise or regulate the behaviour of Councillors outside of this Chamber.
The motion for dissent lapsed for want of a seconder.
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION:
Roslyn Kinder – The ‘Zonta Says NO’ Campaign to eliminate violence against women
File number: 137/220/701/270
Chairman: I would now like to call on Ms Roslyn Kinder who will address the Chamber on the ‘Zonta Says NO’ campaign to eliminate violence against women. Orderly, please show Ms Roslyn Kinder in.
Please proceed, Ms Kinder, you have five minutes.
Ms Roslyn Kinder: Madam Chairman, LORD MAYOR and Councillors, thank you for the opportunity to attend this meeting of Council to speak with you on behalf of eight Brisbane-backed Zonta clubs on our service activities and particularly in relation to domestic and family violence, and our plans for 2017 to work collaboratively to increase the impact of our campaign.
In the first two months of 2017, six women have died as a result of domestic and family violence. This has to stop, and together we can do something about it. Zonta International is an international service organisation with some 1,200clubs and 30,000 members working under the banner of advancing the status of women through service and advocacy.
We have 43 clubs in Queensland, with eight clubs operating in the Brisbane City Council area. Annually, Zonta conducts a worldwide campaign under the banner ‘Zonta Says NO’, and this is to raise awareness of domestic and family violence in the community and to support women and their children when they find themselves in such a situation.
This ongoing campaign culminates each year in November, finishing on 10December. A number of Councillors in this Chamber have assisted clubs in our local Zonta campaign by hosting an ‘orange woman’ which carries messages that domestic and family violence is not acceptable, and we thank you for your leadership on this issue.
Our women carry leaflets which the public is invited to take which have information on Zonta and safety cards with emergency numbers should a woman find herself in a violent situation. Our women are placed in prominent locations across Brisbane, and in 2016 Councillor SCHRINNER kindly facilitated a woman to be placed at the Bulimba Ferry Terminal and a slide to be shown on the TV screen of the CityCats during the 16 Days of Action, and we thank you, Councillor SCHRINNER, for this.
As background, I thought you might be interested in some of the projects clubs have delivered in the various Council wards. Clubs actively support the Love Bites program. This is a domestic violence and sexual assault prevention program designed for years nine and 10 conducted in high schools to complement the Respectful Relationships program.
In 2015 my club sponsored the training of 15 school staff to conduct this program at Balmoral, Rochedale, Whites Hill, Holland Park, Mount Gravatt, Cavendish Road, MacGregor and Yeronga State High Schools. Last year, the combined Zonta clubs project trained 64 school staff to extend the program to a further 40 schools in the wards of Deagon, Calamvale, Chandler, Coorparoo, Enoggera, Holland Park, Macgregor, Morningside, Paddington, Runcorn and Tennyson.
Zonta clubs offer scholarships for disadvantaged students and mature age female students. These operate through the University of Queensland, GriffithUniversity, QUT and in high schools such as Balmoral and Yeronga. Clubs provide in-kind and financial support to women’s refugees, for example, in the wards of Chandler, Moorooka, Morningside, The Gabba, Nathan and Wynnum Manly.
We also support the sexual assault team at the Royal Brisbane Hospital. Other collaborative projects have resulted in an extension to the accommodation at the Anglicare Hostel in Toowong and the construction of a rehabilitation wing at Moonyah in Red Hill.
Councillors, between 80 and 100 deaths a year are linked to domestic and family violence across Australia. Last year 17 women, five children and four men were killed in Queensland as a result of D and FV (Domestic and Family Violence). Our clubs congratulate Council on your announcement supporting your employees who are the victim of DV. As the Mayor said, it is staggering to think police in this State have something like 60,000 callouts a year on matters to do with domestic violence. This is a scourge on our community.
Madam Chairman, LORD MAYOR and Councillors, from this statement, it is obvious that you share the same or very similar concerns as our Zonta members. We need not only to raise awareness of the issue but to take action and provide information so that women in a violent situation know where to turn to for help.
The Zonta clubs in the Brisbane area seek to form a partnership with the Brisbane City Council, and we urge you to join the campaign to eliminate violence against women. We believe there are many opportunities for us to act in partnership and spread the message that violence is not acceptable, that assistance is available, and that Brisbane is a safe city for its community and visitors.
We seek support from Council to launch a campaign to ‘paint Brisbane orange’ by lighting up key buildings and bridges, and to engage community members to join the campaign. Specifically, we ask Council to sponsor and wrap a Council bus or a CityCat under the banner ‘Say No to Violence Against Women’, with an 1 800 help line phone number. A partnership by the Brisbane City Council and Zonta would give widespread coverage across the city.
BDVS (Brisbane Domestic Violence Service) and Micah Projects support the leadership initiatives that we are proposing, and our proposal to work in partnership with you. We also propose—
Chairman: Ms Kinder, apologies, but your time has expired.
Ms Roslyn Kinder: Oh, I’m sorry. Thank you very much for listening to me.
Chairman: DEPUTY MAYOR, would you like to reply?
Response by DEPUTY MAYOR, Councillor Adrian SCHRINNER, Chairman of the Public and Active Transport Committee
DEPUTY MAYOR: Thank you, Roslyn, for coming in and thank you for what you’re doing together with the eight Zonta clubs in Brisbane. You’re probably aware I met with three of your colleagues on Friday to discuss what you’re doing. I have to say this is something that Council finds very easy to support. ‘Zonta Says NO’ to violence and Brisbane City Council says no to violence as well, so we’re on the same page there.
What you’re planning to do going forward, I think that Council is really keen to work with you to support you in many different ways. I know that—and you mentioned that you are very appreciative of the support so far, but I think this year we can ratchet that up to the next level. One of the things that we can do, for example, and we’re looking into this right now, is to light up some of the key city assets, and you mentioned the buildings.
We now have the ability to have City Hall in orange, Victoria Bridge in orange, and the Story Bridge in orange, so we’re working to find a suitable time that we can do that, and then mix in with the other initiatives that you’re planning as well, getting the ‘orange ladies’ out to as many places around the city as possible, and we can look at where we can do that in Council facilities, so we’re having a look at those options now, and also, as you said, having a look at the opportunities to do more in partnership.
I think that is something that we will be very keen to support, and you know, we’re very supportive of this program that you’re running and getting the message out there to the Brisbane community. So thank you for what you do. Thank you for the initiative that you’re taking. Thank you for coming in today to speak to us and to share with us what you’re doing, and we look forward to working with you to work in partnership going forward to get the message out there to the wider community.