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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 9 Hansard (7 September) . . Page.. 3006 ..
MR SMYTH (continuing):
policy. The variation requires that these uses be permitted only where they form part of an integrated mixed-use development which includes multi-unit housing.
The variation limits the gross floor area for these uses to a total of 100 metres square in any one section and sets a threshold for timing of development for any commercial use in relation to development of multi-unit housing within the section to when 75 per cent of the section has been developed for multi-use housing, unless otherwise specified in an approved section master plan. This requirement also applies to those sections which commenced redevelopment prior to the requirement for section master plans introduced by variation No 109.
The Standing Committee on Planning and Urban Services considered the draft variation and in report No 52 of July 2000 endorsed the variation. As always, Mr Speaker, I thank members of the Standing Committee on Planning and Urban Services for their good work and I thank the chairman for the amount of work that the committee actually gets through. I now table variation No 139 to the Territory Plan for additional uses in the area specific policy B11 North Canberra.
MR SMYTH (Minister for Urban Services) (3.52): Mr Speaker, for the information of members, I present the following papers:
Commissioner for the Environment Act, pursuant to section 22-Review of proposed standards for air emissions and other waste products and monitoring requirements for the Totalcare incinerator, dated June 2000, together with the government response.
Clinical, hospital and other wastes-Assessment of technologies as alternatives to incineration for the treatment of clinical, hospital and other wastes, prepared for Environment ACT by Wayne A Davies, Consulting Engineers, dated May 2000.
Mr Speaker, I am pleased to table today the government's response to the ACT Commissioner for the Environment's review. In March 2000, I requested that the Commissioner for the Environment undertake this review of the proposed standards for emissions and waste products, together with monitoring requirements for Totalcare Industries Ltd's waste incinerator at Mitchell. That was in response to concerns raised by the community and ACT Legislative Assembly members about the effect on the local environment of emissions from the incinerator.
I am pleased to report that the standards for gaseous emissions proposed by Totalcare for the operation of the incinerator are, to quote the commissioner, "comparable with or better than those for generally similar operations in Australia and overseas". They will be an improvement in every case on the current operating standards. The proposed standards will ensure that the incinerator operates to current best practice.
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