MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
The 4513 meeting of the Brisbane City Council,
held at City Hall, Brisbane
on Tuesday 29 November 2016
at 2pm
Prepared by:
Council and Committee Liaison Office
Chief Executive’s Office
Office of the Lord Mayor and Chief Executive Officer
[4513 (Ordinary) Meeting – 29 November 2016]
MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
THE 4513 MEETING OF THE BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL,HELD AT CITY HALL, BRISBANE,
ON TUESDAY 29 NOVEMBER 2016
AT 2PM
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS i
PRESENT: 1
OPENING OF MEETING: 1
MINUTES: 1
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION: 1
QUESTION TIME: 3
CONSIDERATION OF COMMITTEE REPORTS: 14
ESTABLISHMENT AND COORDINATION COMMITTEE 14
A LEASE TO THE YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BRISBANE 83
B REPORT OF THE AUDIT COMMITTEE MEETING ON 3 NOVEMBER 2016 85
C TEMPORARY LOCAL PLANNING INSTRUMENT 05/16 – PROTECTION OF CHARACTER BUILDINGS 85
D AP235 ESSENTIAL REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE NOTICE POLICY FOR LOCAL HERITAGE PLACES 86
E MAJOR AMENDMENT TO BRISBANE CITY PLAN 2014, PACKAGE B, AGED CARE 87
F ANNUAL OPERATIONAL PLAN PROGRESS AND QUARTERLY FINANCIAL REPORT FOR THE PERIOD ENDED SEPTEMBER 2016 88
G QUEENSLAND TREASURY CORPORATION CREDIT REVIEW OF BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL 2016 89
H 2016-17 BUDGET – SECOND REVIEW 90
I MAJOR AMENDMENT TO BRISBANE CITY PLAN 2014, PACKAGE D, CHARACTER PROTECTION 92
PUBLIC AND ACTIVE TRANSPORT COMMITTEE 94
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – QUEEN’S WHARF BRISBANE PUBLIC TRANSPORT CHANGES 96
INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE 97
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – LOCAL AREA TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT (TRAFFIC CALMING) 100
B PETITION – REQUESTING A YELLOW LINE TO IMPROVE SAFETY WHEN EXITING 15 BARRAMUL STREET, BULIMBA 101
C PETITION REQUESTING TRAFFIC SIGNALS AT THE INTERSECTION OF WESTERN AVENUE AND HAMILTON ROAD, CHERMSIDE 102
D PETITION – REQUESTING IMPROVED PEDESTRIAN SAFETY AT MARTIN STREET AND BRUNSWICK STREET, FORTITUDE VALLEY 104
CITY PLANNING COMMITTEE 106
A DEVELOPMENT APLICATION UNDER SUSTAINABLE PLANNING ACT 2009: – DEVELOPMENT PERMITS – MATERIAL CHANGE OF USE FOR A RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY, SPECIAL INDUSTRY AND PRELIMINARY APPROVAL TO CARRY OUT BUILDING WORK ON LAND AT 454STPAULSTERRACE, FORTITUDE VALLEY – NEXTDC LTD 107
B PETITION – OBJECTING TO A DEVELOPMENT FOR MULTIPLE DWELLINGS AT 2236 BEAUDESERT ROAD, CALAMVALE (APPLICATION REFERENCE A003671574) 109
ENVIRONMENT, PARKS AND SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE 110
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – EROSION AND SEDIMENT CONTROL ON CONSTRUCTION SITES 112
FIELD SERVICES COMMITTEE 113
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – MIRRABOOKA ROAD BRIDGE REPLACEMENT PROJECT 115
LIFESTYLE AND COMMUNITY SERVICES COMMITTEE 115
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – NUNDAH LIBRARY REFURBISHMENT 117
FINANCE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE 118
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – BRISBANE INNOVATE 119
B COMMITTEE REPORT – BANK AND INVESTMENT REPORT – 26AUGUST 2016 120
C COMMITTEE REPORT – BANK AND INVESTMENT REPORT – 23SEPTEMBER 2016 121
PRESENTATION OF PETITIONS: 121
GENERAL BUSINESS: 122
QUESTIONS OF WHICH DUE NOTICE HAS BEEN GIVEN: 125
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS OF WHICH DUE NOTICE HAS BEEN GIVEN: 126
[4513 (Ordinary) Meeting – 29 November 2016]
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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 then proceeded with the business set out in the Agenda.
MINUTES:
254/2016-17
The Minutes of the 4512 meeting of Council held on 22 November 2016, copies of which had been forwarded to each Councillor, were presented, taken as read and confirmed on the motion of Councillor Kim MARX, seconded by Councillor Andrew WINES.
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION:
Mr Trevor Dixon – The RSL Anzac Day cricket match community engagement
File number: 137/220/701/266
Chairman: I would now like to call on Mr Trevor Dixon who will address the Chamber on the RSL Anzac Day cricket match community engagement. Orderly, please show Mr Dixon in.
Welcome, Mr Dixon. Please proceed, you have five minutes.
Mr Trevor Dixon: Freedom is not free. Those of you that have attended commemorative services would have heard the expression that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. It is important that we remember the sacrifice and service of those that have served our nation. Men and women like myself at one time or another in our lives have signed a blank cheque to this nation, payable up to and equal the value of our lives. There’s a price to pay for that freedom.
Today, though, I would actually like to talk not about the role of the Defence Force in protecting our freedoms, but about another aspect of freedom that I think is equally, if not far more important. Society creates our freedom. This land began with the Dreamtime many, many years ago. In 1788 Captain Arthur Phillip and a local indigenous man named Bennelong started the first journey to creating the freedoms in this land. Bennelong was the first Aboriginal man to act as liaison between our two cultures. Today, the Sydney Opera House sits on Bennelong Point, and former Prime Minister John Howard lost the Federal seat of Bennelong in 2007.
We move forward through our history. You have men like Peter Lalor at the Eureka Stockade, not standing up for the rights of individuals, but for the problem that he identified and that of the Ballarat Reform League in the problem of taxation without representation. At that time the only people in this nation that were allowed to vote were landowners. That catalyst in a short period of time saw all men in this country being allowed to vote.
Not long after that, Sir Henry Parkes and Sir Edmund Barton formed the Federation of this great land. In a very short period of time, thankfully, the ladies were able to join us and were also allowed to vote. Women like Edith Cowan who became the first Federal member elected to Parliament in this great nation. But the freedoms that we have are not merely created politically. They are created by the entrepreneurs of this land, the men and women who go out and create the economy that we all see the benefits from, the mums and dads of our land who go to work every day. Sixty per cent of our economy is in household consumption. The boys and girls that go to school to form part of the economy of mind. For me, that’s the great part of the freedoms that we enjoy in this land.
It is often overlooked on Anzac Day and Remembrance Day to discuss the important aspect of what we all contribute towards freedom. The Kenmore Moggill RSL Sub-branch that I am the President of, five years ago started a little project called the Anzac Day Shell Green Commemorative Cricket Match. The whole idea of that match is to bring the community together.
On Anzac Day we commemorate, and rightly so, the sacrifice of those that have served this nation in the Armed Forces. But in the afternoon, what we do is celebrate the freedom that we have all created, and that is what the cricket match is all about. I know that many of you would have been wondering why does the RSL want to come in today and talk to you about cricket. Well, ladies and gentlemen, that is the reason.
What I would like to leave you with is both an opportunity and a request. The opportunity, LORD MAYOR, is to be the Patron for the Shell Green Cricket Match on Anzac Day every year, and the request is for each and every one of you in this Chamber, every time that you make a decision, to think about the consequences of your decision on the freedoms that we all enjoy. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.
Chairman: Thank you, Mr Dixon.
Councillor BOURKE, would you care to respond, please.
Response by Councillor Matthew Bourke, Chairman of the Lifestyle and Community Services Committee
Councillor BOURKE: Thanks very much, Madam Chairman, and can I start by thanking Mr Dixon for coming in and addressing us this afternoon. I should also start by acknowledging and thanking you for your work and service in the Kenmore Moggill RSL Subbranch, a sub-branch that, having grown up in Kenmore, I have a long friendship with many of the members out there, and it is great to see the work that you are doing promoting freedom and promoting support in our community and bringing communities together as part of the work that the RSL does. I should also acknowledge Councillor RICHARDS and the support that the Pullenvale Ward has provided to your event each year for the last five years.
You spoke with passion about the freedom that we all enjoy here as people who live in Australia, paid for in 100,000 lives lost across many conflicts, and hundreds of thousands more servicemen and women who served our country and continue to serve our country, who often suffer great stress and do great sacrifice for their families and personally to earn that freedom that we all enjoy.
So, with your words today, and the work that you are doing in particular with bringing together the community out there at Brookfield, it is somewhat of an honour to respond to you and to provide our support. Having spoken to the LORD MAYOR briefly, just before, he has accepted your kind invitation to become Patron of the Shell Green Cricket Match, and also to lend his name in support of the Lord Mayor’s Eleven to take on the annual challenge as it is.
Of course, it would be remiss of me not to acknowledge the links back to Anzac Cove that the Shell Green name has, and the way that you have managed to tie in that important aspect of Australia’s history, and the forging of the Anzac spirit on Gallipoli into this community event, and the way that you are able to bring together the community for not the commemoration but more of a celebration of everything that the men and women of Australia in our Defence Forces have served to defend, but also to allow us to do. So thank you very much, Mr Dixon, for taking the time and coming in this afternoon.
Chairman: Thank you, Mr Dixon.
QUESTION TIME:
Chairman: Are there any questions of the LORD MAYOR or a chairman of any standing committee?
Councillor McKENZIE.
Question 1
Councillor McKENZIE: Thank you, Madam Chairman; my question is to the LORD MAYOR. With late night trading coming to major shopping centres in the suburbs this Christmas season, can you outline what this Administration is doing to ensure that both shoppers and employees of our major shopping centres can leave the car at home and avoid congestion around the major suburban shopping centres during the festive season?
LORD MAYOR: Thanks, Madam Chairman, and I thank Councillor McKENZIE for his question. In that question he has raised the issue of late night trading in the lead-up to Christmas. Certainly it is very much beginning to look like Christmas out there. Last Friday night, of course, we saw the turning on of the lights of the Christmas tree in King George Square. The decorations are out; the festivities are well and truly beginning.
With that said, I certainly do note the State Government’s decision to make provision for late night trading to occur from the period of 19 December through to 23 December, not only here in the CBD but also out there in the regional shopping centres; four of them, in fact, at Indooroopilly, Garden City, Carindale and Chermside.
In light of that, the immediate question comes to mind: that’s great, but how will people get home? Obviously there will be people that will drive. We all know I think that shopping precincts, the major ones in particular, are pretty difficult in terms of parking opportunity around that Christmas period. So it is important that we also, within that context, consider the other options that might be available.
With that in mind, we had a look, and I know that the DEPUTY MAYOR sought out from TransLink what arrangements might be happening in terms of aligning public transport with that of the additional shopping hours to be provided. It did seem at the time that not a lot was being planned in that area, so we have, for our part at least, at this time decided, as a trial run this year—but I am sure if it becomes a permanent thing, we would certainly look at that as well—but we will be extending the public transport opportunity for people that want to take advantage of this late night shopping arrangement. That will mean a number of additional services that will be provided to the people of Brisbane this year. Those services will very much coincide with the extended trading hours.