Page 4805 - Week 16 - Monday, 25 November 1991
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that the relevant sections within the Department of Urban Services eventually conducted an assessment of the traffic management problems in the area and came up with the view that there was a speeding problem.
They are putting forward proposals to address that. In the past they did not accept that. It was only because of considerable pressure on the part of the community that they finally agreed that maybe there was a problem and that they should be doing something about it.
The other issue, the most recent one, is the Calwell Primary School. A number of proposals have been put forward and concerns have been expressed about traffic management issues in relation to that. I understand that finally some work has been done. But it seems to me that some of the work that is being done may well have been upset by a decision to put a bus shelter in a certain place, thus taking away all the options in relation to the future development of traffic management in that problem area.
Once again it would seem that there is a requirement for the reasons for these decisions to be included in the documentation so that when the community is looking at the green papers they are able to identify what the various authorities have said and why they have said it. If Mr Kaine will not move that amendment, I am quite happy to move it myself. I offer him that opportunity if he so wishes; if he does not, I might seek to do so.
The issue of defined land is a vexed one. We have seen the draft variation proposals that have come forward for Gungahlin and West Belconnen. You have to remember that those areas have been identified as defined land. Once that process is finished - only general planning principles have been identified - the community loses all involvement in the future development.
It may be, Mr Wood, that one way around the problem is to allow the authority to place a notice in the Gazette saying that detailed planning for an area previously identified as defined land has been completed and that details can be obtained from the authority.
Copies should also be sent to all those who participated in the public consultation process and the Legislative Assembly committees and they should be advised that, unless otherwise directed by the Minister or the Assembly, the changes will take effect 21 days after the notice in the Gazette. Then the Minister, on receipt of a report from the Assembly committee, has to make a final decision and either withdraw the proposal in whole, or in part, or authorise its promulgation.
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