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Finally, Madam Speaker, the debate on this variation should show the community how the committee system of this Assembly works well, notwithstanding the fact that two members of the same political party disagreed on the final outcome. It shows how the committee system should work. It is testimony to the way that this Assembly is an improvement on the one before it, and hopefully it will continue to improve and mellow with age. Mr Wood, I notice you smiling. I am quite happy, as I said, to stick by the fact that I believe that this development needs, and I am sure will get, the support that it deserves.
MR WOOD (Minister for Education and Training, Minister for the Arts and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning) (5.13): I want briefly to respond to Mr Kaine's remarks that there was pressure to provide car parking; that public car parking spaces were imposed on the developer. I understand - and I am seeking verification from the Planning Authority - that instructions to the auctioneers said that a certain number of public car parking spaces were to be provided. When the property was purchased it was purchased in the knowledge that there would be public car parking spaces. However, I am seeking details on that. If they are forthcoming, I will table them later on tonight when I table my responses.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Sitting suspended from 5.14 to 8.00 pm
PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE -
STANDING COMMITTEE
Report on Draft Variation to the Territory Plan - Richardson
MR LAMONT (8.01): I present report No. 19 of the Standing Committee on Planning, Development and Infrastructure on the draft variation to the Territory Plan, Richardson, section 450, block 1, Tuggeranong Homestead, together with a copy of the extracts of the minutes of proceedings. This report was provided to the Speaker for circulation on Tuesday, 15 February 1994, pursuant to the resolution of appointment. I move:
That the report be noted.
This report by the Planning, Development and Infrastructure Committee is unanimous. The area affected by the draft variation is the area that has generically been called Tuggeranong Homestead, that is, the area bounded by Ashley Drive and Johnson Drive in the suburb of Richardson, adjacent to Isabella Plains and Calwell. Mr Deputy Speaker, as you would recall, the question of what to do with this site in terms of its cultural and heritage significance had been previously dealt with by a committee of this Assembly chaired by Mr Moore, and a report had been tabled. That report was tabled prior to the involvement of the Planning, Development and Infrastructure Committee in the formal process for planning variations in the ACT.
The committee, in looking at how to deal with this variation, determined that in the first instance any public hearings should take place within the Tuggeranong Valley. It was with that in mind, in an attempt to further involve the Tuggeranong community in the consideration of this draft variation, that the
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