Agenda – Meeting of Tuesday 18 August 2015

Agenda: NORTH CANBERRA COMMUNITY COUNCIL GENERAL MEETING 7.30 pm TUESDAY 18 August 2015
Majura Function Room Majura Community Centre, 2 Rosevear Place, Dickson

1. GUEST PRESENTATION/S –
   1. 7.30 pm: Proposed Dickson supermarket development – what Coles and DOMA can and cannot do on the site:
      Environment and Planning Directorate: Jim Corrigan, Executive Director, Planning Delivery, and George Cilliers, Development Assessment.
   2. 7.45 pm: Alistair Coe. Shadow Minister for Planning and Transport. See questions at Addendum 1 below.
   3. 8.15 pm: Public Housing Renewal Taskforce: David Collett will present on the Public Housing Renewal Program and the Currong flats demolition in Braddon.
2. STANDING ITEMS
   1. Attendance and Apologies
   2. Declaration of conflicts of interest
   3. Confirm the minutes of the preceding General Meeting
   4. reports on actions arising from the Minutes
3. Confirmation of the agenda
4. REPORTS
   1. ‘Report on Committee decisions since the previous General Meeting.
   2. Treasurer’s report
   3. Planning and Development Forum – Issues to raise at next meeting 27 August?
   4. Residents’ Associations (Canberra City, Dickson, Downer, Hackett, O’Connor, Pialligo, Reid, Turner, Watson)
   5. Dickson Section 72 “Dickson Parklands” – Response to proposed redevelopment, including to the Draft Variation to re-zone some blocks as residential.
   6. Dickson intersections upgrades
5. GENERAL BUSINESS
   1. Possible submission on Draft Variation to the Territory Plan No. 343: Residential blocks surrendered under the loose fill asbestos insulation eradication scheme – The recommended variation is accessible via the Environment and Sustainable Development Directorate website: http://www.actpla.act.gov.au/tools_resources/legislation_plans_registers/plans/territory_plan/recommended_final_variations.  Written submissions should be lodged by 27 August 2015.
   2. Dickson path lighting – Vivienne Lewis has raised the issue that lighting on the path from Dickson, through the Lyneham wetlands and to Lyneham Shops is extremely dark and therefore poses a risk to anyone walking at night including females. There is no lighting around the wetlands or on the paths. The path from Lyneham shops to the wetlands is extremely dark. Fox place has no lighting at the entrance to the cul-de-sac and so people trying to find the street in the dark often miss it.
6. Any other business
7. Close of meeting

Attachment: Questions that we have asked Alistair Coe to address.

PLANNING

1. What will a Liberal Government do to de-complicate the Territory Plan?

TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE

2. Will a Liberal Government build Bus Rapid Transit between Civic and Gungahlin?
3. How much will a Liberal Government spend on walking and cycling infrastructure?
4. Will a Liberal Government prioritise walking and cycling infrastructure projects according to value-for-money?

TRAFFIC

5. Will a Liberal Government discriminate against pedestrians and child cyclists?