Page 1914 - Week 07 - Thursday, 23 August 2007
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some commercial development, but we do not think the government has got the balance right here.
Once again, we need to look at it in the broader context of what we want the Woden town centre as a whole to look like in 10, 15 and 20 years time. I do not think that this gets the balance right. I would like to see more development there, but I do not think that this is necessarily the way to do it. That is why we will be supporting this disallowance motion.
MS PORTER (Ginninderra) (11.07): The minister has outlined the proposed changes to the territory plan contained in draft variation No 259. In addition to the minor revisions that were made to the exhibited draft variation as a result of the public consultation period, the planning and environment committee made 10 recommendations, as the minister said. It is interesting that Mr Seselja has just stood up in this place and spoken in the way that he has, because there were no dissenting reports. He is the deputy chair of the planning and environment committee, and there were no dissenting reports in that inquiry. Obviously none of these concerns were evident at that particular time.
The government considered the issues raised and tabled a government response in May this year. Briefly, the key planning and environment committee recommendations relevant to the disallowance motions were as follows. Recommendation 4 was that:
… additional Community Facility and/or public land be identified in Sections 23 and/or 104 and in Blocks 1 and/or 4 of Section 35.
It was noted that the land use on these sections already allows for community facilities and uses, although section 104 is required predominantly for car parking. The committee also recommended that:
… the Planning and Land Authority amend the proposed extension of the Town Centre Commercial B precinct b Land Use Policy in Woden Town Centre to include Section 22, block 2, and remove the 8M Phillip Public Pool overlay from Part B8: Entertainment, Accommodation and Leisure land Use Policies.
This recommendation was supported and incorporated as part of the draft variation. The committee recommended that:
… the Planning and Land Authority insert an Area Specific Overlay in Part2B: Town Centre Land Use Policies—Commercial B for the Phillip Pool site to require that the lessee of Section 22 block 2 Woden continue to provide a public 50 metre pool and an ice skating rink.
The minister has already outlined that. The substance of this recommendation was supported and a clause was inserted into the land use policy for the site requiring the lessee to provide a 50-metre public pool and ice-skating rink.
The next recommendation was:
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