MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
The 4437 meeting of the Brisbane City Council,
held at City Hall, Brisbane
on Tuesday 3 June 2014
at 2pm
Prepared by:
Council and Committee Liaison Office
Chief Executive’s Office
Office of the Lord Mayor and the Chief Executive Officer
[4437 (Ordinary) Meeting – 3 June 2014]
/MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
THE 4437 MEETING OF THE BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL,HELD AT CITY HALL, BRISBANE,
ON TUESDAY 3 JUNE 2014
AT 2PM
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS i
PRESENT: 1
OPENING OF MEETING: 1
APOLOGY: 1
MINUTES: 1
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION: 1
QUESTION TIME: 6
CONSIDERATION OF COMMITTEE REPORTS: 17
ESTABLISHMENT AND COORDINATION COMMITTEE 17
A ADOPTION OF THE BRISBANE CITY PLAN 2014 60
B SALE AND LEASE OF 37 AND 41 O’CONNELL TERRACE, BOWEN HILLS, TO CITY OF BRISBANE INVESTMENT CORPORATION PTY LTD 62
INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE 63
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – OPEN LEVEL CROSSING REPLACEMENT PROJECTS – COMMUNITY OPEN DAYS 66
B PETITION – CALLING ON COUNCIL TO CHANGE PARKING RESTRICTIONS ON CAVENDISH ROAD, BETWEEN OLD CLEVELAND ROAD AND TARLINA LANE, COORPAROO 67
C PETITION – REQUESTING THE CLOSURE OF LONE PINE STREET, AT THE WARDELL STREET INTERSECTION, ENOGGERA, TO IMPROVE SAFETY AND AMENITY 68
PUBLIC AND ACTIVE TRANSPORT COMMITTEE 70
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – BUS OPERATOR TRAINING 70
NEIGHBOURHOOD PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE 71
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – NEIGHBOURHOOD PLANNING UPDATE - ROCHEDALE 72
ENVIRONMENT, PARKS AND SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE 73
A PRESENTATION – CALAMVALE DISTRICT PARK 79
B PARK NAMING – FORMAL NAMING OF BOOLARRA STREET PARK, 36BOOLARRA STREET, HEMMANT, AS ‘BILL BENHAM PARK’ 79
C FORMAL NAMING OF BECCARIA PLACE PARK, BECCARIA PLACE, DOOLANDELLA, AS ‘BECCARIA PARK’ 80
D PETITION – REQUESTING THAT COUNCIL UPGRADE THE ESPLANADE FROM WYNNUM TO LOTA TO THE SAME STANDARD AS REDCLIFFE, TOWNSVILLE OR CAIRNS, INCORPORATING FEATURES SUCH AS A SWIMMING LAGOON AND IMPROVED WATER PLAY AREA 81
E PETITIONS – REQUESTING THAT COUNCIL DELIVER A NEW PARK AT 405 TO 419 MONTAGUE ROAD, WEST END, ON THE FORMER DISTANCE EDUCATION CENTRE SITE 82
FIELD SERVICES COMMITTEE 83
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR RECYCLING ONCE IT’S COLLECTED? 84
BRISBANE LIFESTYLE COMMITTEE 85
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – LOCAL GOVERNMENT TOOLBOX 87
FINANCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE 87
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – LORD MAYOR’S BUSINESS FORUMS 2013-14 91
B PETITION – REQUESTING THAT LAND AT GIBBON STREET, WOOLLOONGABBA, BE RETAINED IN COUNCIL OWNERSHIP FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE AREA AS OPEN COMMUNITY PARKLAND 92
C BANK AND INVESTMENT REPORT – MARCH 2014 93
CONSIDERATION OF NOTIFIED MOTION – Parking in Brisbane Review: 93
PRESENTATION OF PETITIONS: 118
GENERAL BUSINESS: 118
QUESTIONS OF WHICH DUE NOTICE HAS BEEN GIVEN: 120
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS OF WHICH DUE NOTICE HAS BEEN GIVEN: 121
[4437 (Ordinary) Meeting – 3 June 2014]
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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)
Julian SIMMONDS (Walter Taylor)
Andrew WINES (Enoggera)
NormWYNDHAM (McDowall) / 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 Deputy Chairman, Councillor Angela OWEN-TAYLOR, opened the meeting with prayer, and then proceeded with the business set out in the Agenda.
APOLOGY:
686/2013-14
An apology was submitted on behalf of the Deputy Mayor, Councillor Adrian SCHRINNER (Chandler), and he was granted leave of absence from the meeting on the motion of Councillor Ryan MURPHY, seconded by Councillor Kim MARX.
MINUTES:
687/2013-14
The Minutes of the 4436 meeting of Council held on 27 May 2014, 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:
Dr Scott Waldron – Traffic-calming measures in Drake Street, West End
File number: 137/220/701/182
Deputy Chairman: I would now like to call on Dr Scott Waldron who will address the Chamber on traffic-calming measures in Drake Street, West End. Orderly, please show DrWaldron in. Please proceed DrWaldron, you have five minutes.
Dr Waldron: Madam Deputy Chairman, LORD MAYOR and councillors, good afternoon and thanks for the opportunity to address Council today, and I'd also like to acknowledge residents of Drake Street in the Public Gallery here.
I'm here to represent 90 per cent of Drake Street residents that have submitted a petition to Council. The essence of our petition is that Drake Street is a residential street including in the new City Plan, but that it is increasingly used as an inter-suburban transit route, especially for the new and large scale developments along Montague Road and the river.
This has caused a range of safety problems that we're calling on Council to address through traffic-calming measures that might include traffic lights, street closure and chicanes.
Madam Chairman, the issue is probably best illustrated through the map that is being distributed. If we could refer to that, you'll see that to get to Montague Road from large tracks of South Brisbane, there is Ipswich Road, Gladstone Road, Annerley, Fairfield and Dutton Park. A lot of the traffic funnels along Dornoch Terrace and through Drake Street into Montague Road and vice versa in a reverse flow.
Most importantly, the already high volumes of traffic in Drake Street will increase rapidly into the future, because we lie directly opposite the former Distance Education site and the developments of Pradella, Stockwell and at least three other major developments. That is tens of thousands of new residents, day workers and shoppers will be potentially using our residential street as a thoroughfare.
For these reasons, we argue that Drake Street will feel the traffic impacts of these developments perhaps more strongly than any other residential street in West End, and that Drake Street should be treated as a unique and immediate case.
Furthermore, it should be noted that the streets at the immediate north of us, that is Raven Street, has been closed off at Leitch Lane and the streets of the immediate south, that is Gray Road, has had chicanes installed.
So we would like to see traffic calming installed that is consistent with these neighbouring streets. We currently have three speed bumps on Drake Street but this does not stopped the high volumes and speed of traffic. We estimate that about 30 per cent of cars speed above the 40 kilometre-an-hour limit, often much faster—and there are large numbers of commercial vehicles and utes and increasingly numbers of heavy trucks from the development sites.
The biggest concern of all this is of course safety. The majority of residents on Drake Street are families and the elderly that just have to cross the road to walk or ride almost anywhere. To get to the riverside we have to negotiate the busy Drake Street Montague Road intersection which, even now, requires good judgment and timing.
While the intersection of Hoogley and Drake Street are steep, it's on a blind corner where there have been numerous bike accidents already and it's made more dangerous by cars queuing to turn right into Drake Street.
So to address these safety concerns we as a street have conducted street meetings, we have an email discussion group and we've lodged a petition to Council. The petition covers more than 90 per cent of the street, so that is at least one member of every dwelling in the street, except for one house and a few units who were away when we did it.
Importantly, we've also consulted with local business, including Pradella, who've expressed verbally and in writing that they are supportive of our bid to install additional traffic calming and are happy to be part of the next steps.
So, Madam Deputy Chairman, what we believe we have here is a reasonable case to install traffic calming to address safety concerns that have arisen from rapid development in the area, and we also have strong support from residents and business seeking to work together. We hope and expect that Council can actively participate in this.
So our proposed next step is for the Council to allocate resources in the next budget to (a) measure traffic flows in Drake Street; (b) install speed signage of 40 kilometres-an-hour at both ends of the street; (c) ensure that all development applications along the riverside specify heavy vehicle route to the development sites along Cordelia Street and Montague Road; and most importantly (d) we ask that Council examine additional traffic-calming measures for Drake Street, including traffic lights, street closure and chicanes in consultation with residents of Drake Street and developers.
Deputy Chairman: Dr Waldron your time has expired.
Dr Waldron: Thanks for your time.
Response by Councillor Ian McKENZIE, Acting Chairman of the Infrastructure Committee
Deputy Chairman: Thank you. Councillor McKENZIE would you care to respond please?
Councillor McKENZIE: Thank you very much, Deputy Chairman. Firstly Dr Waldron I'd like to say thank you very much for coming in here and making us aware of those concerns of the residents in your street.
I've personally driven down your street and around the surrounding areas to inspect it and see what the conditions are, and as you've outlined and for the benefit of the Chamber, there are three speed platforms in the street with built outs, and there are also signs on each end of the street prohibiting traffic over a certain weight from entering the street.
Notwithstanding the work that Council has already done on this street and we recognise the fact that things change and traffic does increase, drawing your attention to these issues is very important for when your petition which you have lodged and I think you're the main petitioner, comes before the Infrastructure Committee. But I can assure you the issues that you've raised today and in that petition will be considered seriously by the Infrastructure Committee and we'll be looking very closely at how we can improve that street and the surrounding streets.
So I look forward to sitting on the Infrastructure Committee and going over your submission there, and I thank you once again for your attendance here. Thank you.
Deputy Chairman: Thank you Councillor McKENZIE, thank you Dr Waldron.
Mr Edward Smith – Proposed development at 27 Rigby Street, Annerley
File number: 137/220/701/181
Deputy Chairman: We now also have a second speaker today and I would now like to call on MrEdward Smith who will address the Chamber on the proposed development at 27 Rigby Street, Annerley. Orderly, please show Mr Smith in.
Please proceed Mr Smith, you have five minutes.
Mr Smith: Thank you. Madam Deputy Chairman, LORD MAYOR and councillors, my name is Edward Smith, I'm a resident in the Tennyson Ward and I reside at 27Rigby Street. I have come here today to speak to you on behalf of my family and the residents of Rigby Street, Wingfield Street, Chester and Ferndale Streets in Annerley.
The property next to mine, 25 Rigby Street, which is also at the intersection of Wingfield Street, has recently been exposed to a development application from a private developer. The developer has submitted his proposal via his representatives, Simpson Rayner Surveys and through the PD Online portal on the Council website. This application is for a two-storey multi-unit development at the back of a pre-1946 character house in Rigby Street.
I'd like to first make it clear to Council today that I am not part of nor are the residents in Rigby Street and surrounding streets anti-development campaigners, and all residents involved in the objection of this proposed development understand the need for appropriate development in the inner city.
I would like to bring to your attention today some brief points surrounding this application, but not all points as five minutes is not enough time. For the full report from our town planner, the 87 letters of objection and all responses from the developer through his representatives, they're all on the PD Online.
The development application's executive summary which was lodged on behalf of the developer by Simpson Rayner was put through the RiskSMART and was incorrect. A town planner working on our behalf, Saunders Havill, noticed the misrepresentation of the number of parking spaces for the tenants and visitors being higher than what was actually outlined in their plans. They also misrepresented the level of assessment required for an application to be approved. They have misused the RiskSMART and its intended purposes.
Simpson Rayner Surveys proudly state on their website and letterhead that they are a Brisbane City Council accredited consultant for SealSMART and RiskSMART. I would think being an accredited consultant for the Brisbane City Council they would be acutely aware of what is and what is not allowed.
This application has been chaotic and mismanaged from the beginning. Simpson Rayner Surveys, on behalf of the developer, started the open for comment period a month before Council had given them acceptance of the lodged application. This in turn led to Council to order a restart to the open for comment period. With this period beginning again, Council advised they would not accept any of the objections that had already been lodged through the PD Online. This caused great stress to a number of residents in my street and surrounding streets who had already put the effort in. We had already contracted our town planner to make his report and submit it through the PD Online.
This is all currently before the assessment team in Council. In the amended plans that the developer has come back with on 21 May, his representatives have made some changes to many points within the plans which is good. However, our town planner has made some points to mention today which I think are important for Council to know and understand going forward with the decision.