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could also be very beneficial to those who are perhaps less agile and certainly less capable of avoiding some of the tree roots in the area. The area is highly used by Dickson College students, dog walkers and also local residents going to Dickson pool and community facilities.
In conclusion, I am very pleased that the variation has been changed. I think this will significantly allay community concerns and will ensure the protection of a stand of mature trees that not only will, as I say, have aesthetic value but also be part of where we want to go with this city, which is making sure that, as there are changes in the city and in some areas redevelopment infill occurs, the greenery in the area, the living infrastructure as we formally call it in the living infrastructure strategy, is actually protected, and we continue to see Canberra as the bush capital it is renowned for being.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Planning and Development Act 2007—variation No 360 to the Territory Plan
MR GENTLEMAN (Brindabella—Minister for Advanced Technology and Space Industries, Minister for the Environment and Heritage, Minister for Planning and Land Management and Minister for Police and Emergency Services) (4.13): Pursuant to standing order 211, I move:
That the Assembly take note of the following paper:
Planning and Environment Act, pursuant to subsection 79(1)—Approval—Variation to the Territory Plan No 360—Molonglo River Reserve: changes to public land reserve overlay boundaries and minor zone adjustment.
Today I present variation 360 to the Territory Plan for the Molonglo River Reserve, a new reserve that follows the Molonglo River from Scrivener Dam to the Murrumbidgee River Corridor Reserve. It includes three current reserves—the Kama Nature Reserve, the lower Molonglo River Corridor Nature Reserve and the Molonglo River Special Purpose Reserve—and brings them together with some new areas to create the Molonglo River Reserve. The Molonglo River park in east Molonglo is included in the reserve, and the reserve has high conservation value and is becoming a recreation destination for residents of the Molonglo Valley.
A reserve management plan has been prepared for the reserve. Its purpose is to give clear direction on how the biodiversity, land and waters of the Molonglo River Reserve will be used and managed to satisfy both nature conservation and recreation objectives.
Variation 360 has been prepared to consolidate the public land reserve overlay boundaries and rezones part of block 485 Stromlo from rural zone to river corridor, to better reflect the management of this block as part of the reserve. These changes align the Territory Plan map with the reserve management plan for the new Molonglo River Reserve. Finalising variation 360 will facilitate the completion of the plan.
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