MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
The 4527 meeting of the Brisbane City Council,
held at City Hall, Brisbane
on Tuesday 30 May 2017
at 2pm
Prepared by:
Council and Committee Liaison Office
City Administration and Governance
[4527 (Ordinary) Meeting – 30 May 2017]
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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
THE ?? MEETING OF THE BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL,HELD AT CITY HALL, BRISBANE,
ON TUESDAY ??
AT 2PM
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PRESENT:
OPENING OF MEETING:
MINUTES:
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION:
QUESTION TIME:
CONSIDERATION OF COMMITTEE REPORTS:
ESTABLISHMENT AND COORDINATION COMMITTEE
AMINOR AMENDMENT TO BRISBANE CITY PLAN 2014 – YEERONGPILLY TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN
BMINOR AMENDMENT TO BRISBANE CITY PLAN 2014 – PLANNING ACT 2016 ALIGNMENT
PUBLIC AND ACTIVE TRANSPORT COMMITTEE
ACOMMITTEE PRESENTATION – Indooroopilly Bikeway
INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE
ACOMMITTEE PRESENTATION – PLAYER STREET CONNECTION
BPETITION – REQUESTING A REDUCTION OF SPEED LIMIT ON BASKERVILLE STREET AND _BRACKENRIDGE ROAD, BRIGHTON
CPETITION – REQUESTING THE INSTALLATION OF A YELLOW LINE AND SPEED BUMP NEAR ____11BOTHWELL STREET, MOUNTGRAVATTEAST
CITY PLANNING COMMITTEE
ADEVELOPMENT APPLICATION UNDER SUSTAINABLE PLANNING ACT 2009 – DEVELOPMENT PERMIT – MATERIAL CHANGE OF USE FOR CENTRE ACTIVITIES (THEATRE, FOOD AND DRINK OUTLET, SHOPPING CENTRE AND INDOOR SPORT AND RECREATION) ON LAND AT 171 DANDENONG ROAD, MOUNTOMMANEY – VICINITY CUSTODIAN PTY LIMITED AND T-C MT. OMMANEY CENTRE LLC
BPETITION – REQUESTING THAT COUNCIL ORDER WORK TO CEASE ON THE APPROVED DEVELOPMENT AT 39 TO 41 DRANE STREET, CLAYFIELD, AND INCLUDE THE PREMISES ON COUNCIL’S HERITAGE REGISTER
ENVIRONMENT, PARKS AND SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE
ACOMMITTEE PRESENTATION – MORETON BAY MARINE PARK
BCOMMITTEE REPORT - BUSHLAND PRESERVATION LEVY REPORT FOR THE PERIOD ENDED _MARCH2017
FIELD SERVICES COMMITTEE
ACOMMITTEE PRESENTATION – RECREATE AND REVIVE
LIFESTYLE AND COMMUNITY SERVICES COMMITTEE
ACOMMITTEE PRESENTATION – SIR THOMAS BRISBANE PLANETARIUM
FINANCE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
ACOMMITTEE PRESENTATION – WINTER CAMPAIGN UPDATE
PRESENTATION OF PETITIONS:
GENERAL BUSINESS:
QUESTIONS OF WHICH DUE NOTICE HAS BEEN GIVEN:
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS OF WHICH DUE NOTICE HAS BEEN GIVEN:
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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.
MINUTES:
571/2016-17
The Minutes of the 4526 meeting of Council held on 23May2017, 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.
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION:
Mr Anthony Mills-Wynne – Stormwater Drainage in Lilly Street, Sherwood
Chairman:I would now like to call on Mr Anthony Mills-Wynne who will address the Chamber on stormwater drainage in Lilly Street, Sherwood.
Orderly, please show him in.
Please proceed, Mr Mills-Wynne, you have five minutes.
Anthony Mills-Wynne:Thank you. Madam Chairman, LORD MAYOR and Councillors, thank you for the opportunity this afternoon to discuss our issues.
I reside at number 1LillyStreet in Sherwood with my wife and two of our four sons, who are both students. Lilly Street at that end, the northern end of LillyStreet, grades away from Sherwood Road. The street is about 200metres long and the gradient is about a metre from Sherwood Road. There is no drainage whatsoever in that end of Lilly Street.
Subsequently we have an enormous problem when stormwater comes down the street and flows into various properties. Mine is at the bottom of the street, so we unfortunately are the recipient of most of that rainwater that comes through. It’s also worth noting that most of the houses on the western side of the street, they drain into the street, and so it’s not only the stormwater coming down the street but there’s also drainage from the houses themselves and some of those homes have swimming pools, and when the owners of those pools backwash those pools, the residue from those filters comes down the street and also enters our property. So it creates a health risk as well.
On 26 April 2013, the owners of the properties in the street petitioned Council with a view to having something done about the drainage. CouncillorJOHNSTON very courteously replied on 14 February to say that she’d made representations to Council to have a look at it, to investigate it. Subsequently on 17 February I got a letter from Mr Darlington, the DesignProgram Manager in the drainage section of Council where he advised me that flooding has been investigated and the adequacy of the existing stormwater drainage network has been assessed.
Subsequently, he says ‘this work is considered essential’ as it’s to relieve flooding experienced by residents of Honour Avenue and Lilly Street, Sherwood, in or under dwellings. I can assure you that our property quite often has up to 300 millimetres of water coming into the front of our home and we’ve had to put sandbags across our front door and across the weep holes in the brickwork to stop stormwater getting into the brickwork and subsequently rotting the internals of our home.
He further says that ‘to enable Council to fix the problem, we’d appreciate it if you’d contact us as soon as possible’, so they’ve got access, which I subsequently granted. I’ve made some copies of those correspondences if you wish, MadamChairman, to circulate those at some point in time.
Subsequently I wrote back to Mr Darlington and pointed out to him that there was an existing 150 millimetres—or six inches in the old language—earthenware drainpipe running from in front of our property back into Honour Avenue. It’s something that we found a couple of years prior to our building the house there. I’d suggest the drain is probably really of no great value—it’s probably very, very old and subsequently it’s probably been filled up with litter and things like that.
The LORD MAYOR—thank you, LORD MAYOR—wrote to me on 6 March saying that he appreciated us bringing it to his attention. He subsequently wrote back to me on 19 March and said that the issues we raised were of a complex nature and there will be a review, and Mr Siva Sivaananthan, an engineer, would contact me at some stage.
I’ve made some photographic copies to illustrate the amount of stormwater that does come down the street, and I’m happy to circulate those at some stage of the game, if I might, Madam Chair. Thank you very much.
Subsequently Mr Darlington came out andoffered a plan, a couple of alternatives which I’ve got copies of, which would enable a drain to be bored from Honour Avenue through to the end of the street to alleviate the problem. Subsequently I spoke to Councillor JOHNSTON about the likelihood of that occurring, and she told me that it had been put into some sort of forward estimate, but there were no dates on which this might occur.
I subsequently asked Councillor JOHNSTON if she could provide me with some sort of an idea of what kind of progress might likely be made. She provided me with some data showing the amount of money and so on that had been allocated to local drainage, and from the point of where I wrote the letter in 2013, I notice that virtually nothing has been spent in Tennyson Ward whatsoever, on either major drainage or local drainage construction, and that was for the year 2013-14 and 2012-13, and 2014-15, unfortunately the same result. Basically nothing has been spent in our area, and again in 2016-17, again nothing has been allocated for our ward.
It would appear, just looking at the numbers myself, that the majority of the money seems to be getting spent on the northside. So maybe I need to move to Paddington or something like that to stop my house getting flooded.
Chairman:Mr Mills-Wynne, your time has actually expired.
Anthony Mills-Wynne:Am I running out of time?
Chairman:It’s expired.
Anthony Mills-Wynne:Thank you.
Chairman:Councillor McLACHLAN, would you care to respond?
Response by Councillor David McLachlan, Chairman of the Environment, Parks and Sustainability Committee
Councillor McLACHLAN:Thank you, Madam Chairman, and thank you, Mr Mills-Wynne, for taking the time to come and talk to Council today. I’m the Chairman of the Environment,Parks and Sustainability Committee, and the budget for drainage sits under my portfolio, so that’s why I’m responding to you today.
I obviously understand that you’ve requested relief from overland flow impacts on your property dating back to 2011, and that does include emails to the LORDMAYOR, and you’ve received responses in the past to those requests. I do understand that you bought the property in 2009, I understand, and it was a fairly typical Sherwood timber house on stumps with an open slat fence through which, in stormwater events, I presume water always flowed down the slight hill in the direction of your property.
I’ve got a photo of it there as it was, when you bought it, and the water flowed across that open space in your property. So I acknowledge that the house you’ve since built, which is your right to do so, is substantially different. You’ve built a house on a slab with a lot of hard stand around it and a solid masonry fence, and that’s the photo of the house, as I understand it, that’s currently being built.
The LORD MAYOR said to you in his letter of 2013 that he’s been advised that the pre-existing overland flow path is present on your property, and that following the construction of the new house, the site’s characteristics were affected. In view of this, the LORD MAYOR said at the time that Council officers will undertake a more detailed investigation to determine the current situation and to find potential solutions to minimise the impact of flooding, and you’ve relayed those communications that you have had.
You were advised that any proposed drainage will require an agreement from the existing neighbouring property to allow Council to construct an underground drainage through their property. As part of the investigation, the LORDMAYOR concluded Council shall reapproach neighbouring property owners, and that indeed has happened. That indeed has happened.
But the engineering solution to divert the overland flow water that comes down Lilly Street towards your property at the end of the cul-de-sac remains the best solution, and that was put to you and to your neighbours by letter in 2014, and that is to micro-tunnel a drain in an easement that needs to be provided through your neighbour’s property to link into drains in Honour Avenue.
Councillor interjecting.
Chairman:Councillor JOHNSTON! Do not interject.
Councillor McLACHLAN:I understand that you know that your neighbours do not support that proposal, and have to date refused to agree to relief works. It should be noted that this proposed easement, does not take land away from the title of that neighbour, but provides Council with the right to construct and maintain infrastructure under the surface of the land.
Mr Mills-Wynne, if your neighbour continues to not sanction or support this work, Council is prepared to go down the path of issuing a Notice of Intention to Resume, and follow through on the process that’s required if we have to go down that path, and then to list capital works required for a future budget. Capitalworks won’t be possible until the easement issue is resolved, either by agreement with the resident or by the resumption process.
So clearly the best solution to these issues of overland flow on your property is for neighbourhood consensus to prevail, to be achieved, but if that’s not the case, Council is prepared to pursue the alternative path via a Notice of Intention to Resume, so we can get on with the job of diverting the water flow that goes down Lilly Street.
Thank you very much for coming in to talk to Council.
Chairman:Thank you, Councillor McLACHLAN
Thank you, Mr Mills-Wynne.
QUESTION TIME:
Chairman:Are there any questions of the LORD MAYOR or a Chairman of any of the StandingCommittees?
Councillor McKENZIE.
Question 1
Councillor McKENZIE:Thank you, Madam Chairman. My question is to the LORD MAYOR.
This morning you unveiled the plans to continue delivering Australia’s most modern public transport fleet with the business case for the Brisbane Metro.
Can you please update this Chamber on this project, and the next steps in bringing a Metro to Brisbane?
Chairman:LORD MAYOR.
LORD MAYOR:I thank you very much for the question, Councillor McKENZIE.
Madam Chairman, this morning I outlined details in relation to the BrisbaneMetro. The first thing we ought to just recall is the reason why we need to do a Metro in this city, Madam Chairman, is that currently Brisbane transport operations in the City of Brisbane carry 24 million more passengers than Queensland Rail does right throughout South East Queensland. It really does identify the enormity of the task of transport for Brisbane, particularly that the buses carry in this city.
So, Madam Chairman, that is why we embarked on undertaking the BrisbaneMetro. This morning, Madam Chairman, I was able to outline that the cost of the Brisbane Metro would be $944 million, but that carries with it a benefit-cost ratio, a BCR, of 1.91, and that is on a conservative basis.
So, Madam Chairman, obviously there were some reasons why we need to get on with this project. The first of those, and the primary one, Madam Chairman, which is why I went to the State Government in the first place, was around the issue of bus congestion, the congestion that we’re experiencing around the Cultural Centre Precinct, around the Victoria Bridge, Madam Chairman, simply because the demand for bus transport services through that corridor are very, very strong. And they’re not going to get lighter—they’re going to get stronger as our employment grows, Madam Chairman, as the residential numbers in this city and in the region, people coming to Brisbane to work, continues to grow in the years ahead.
So it’s why it’s here and now that we need to get on and undertake a project of this sort. So, Madam Chairman, well, what is it about? Well, the first thing, obviously, it creates two Metros—one from Eight Mile Plains to Roma Street, and the other from the Royal Brisbane Women’s Hospital (RBWH) through to that of the University of Queensland (UQ).
It will have 18 stations, 21 kilometres in length, 11 interchange stations, and we’ve made provision for two interconnecting interchanges for CrossRiverRail—one at Boggo Road and the other at Roma Street. So, MadamChairman, the project is independent—it is not dependent upon CrossRiver Rail, in the same way as Cross River Rail is not dependent upon Brisbane Metro. But we see them as complementary projects, and we have made provision for those two interchange opportunities.
The benefits that it will bring to this city, Councillor McKENZIE, are enormous. Firstly, a high-frequency service every three minutes in the peak, five minutes in the off-peak, and every 10 minutes at night. It will have a 20-hour service provision from Sunday night to Thursday night, and 24 hours on Friday night and Saturday night.
Madam Chairman, on top of that, obviously what it will mean is greater capacity in the network. So where the South East Busway currently takes around 12,000passengers, we will have a start-up capacity of 22,000 with BrisbaneMetro, and that will grow and have the capacity to grow to around 29,000 by 2041. That capacity will grow as demand grows. So, when it will start with 60Metro vehicles, there is the capacity in the network to grow that number as the demand for public transport services grows.
As well as that, it’s about obviously clearing those bus congestion spots. The infrastructure that will be built to connect existing infrastructure, MadamChairman, will relieve the congestion spots and undergrounding of the bus station at the cultural precinct will be one of those key components. Another benefit is that it takes 125 buses out of the CBD in the peak period.
Madam Chairman, I have a copy of the summary plan. I provided a copy of this to Councillor CUMMING this morning prior to the press conference, but I would ask if the Orderly could provide each Councillor with a copy of the Brisbane Metro Business Case Key Findings, and so, Madam Chairman—
Councillor interjecting.
Chairman:Order!
LORD MAYOR:—we look—
Chairman:Order!
Councillor SUTTON, do not interject.
LORD MAYOR:We look forward to that.
Thank you, Madam Chairman.
Councillor interjecting.
Chairman:Councillor SUTTON! Do not scream out across the Chamber.
Further questions?
Councillor CUMMING.
Question 2
Councillor CUMMING:Thank you, Madam Chair. My question is to the LORD MAYOR.
As you would be aware, Brisbane City Council electricians have taken the protected industrial action for minor work bans as part of current EBA (Enterprise Bargaining Agreement) negotiations. These workers have concerns about changes to rostering arrangements which will effectively mean these electricians will be on call 24hours a day, seven days a week.