Page 1770 - Week 06 - Thursday, 30 July 2020
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The report contains seven recommendations, and my comments now reflect my views. If you want the consensus view of the committee, you should read the report. I will give the edited highlights.
Recommendation 2 is that the directorate needs a more fulsome desired character statement for the Curtin precinct codes to include human scale, sunlight to the central courtyard and the provision of attractive and busy public spaces more generally. Talking about sunlight, recommendation 5 is that when the Territory Plan review is done it should include options to protect sunlight during the day in the public spaces that the community values. The committee has dealt with this issue in Mawson and Woden in this term of the Assembly.
We also talked a bit about trees, and recommendation 7, believe it or not, was in fact suggested by a development consulting firm. This will not make an awful lot of sense to people who do not know Curtin, but as we have three members from Murrumbidgee here I will speak to them particularly. The precinct code had suggested that on Strangways Street, where there will a ground floor commercial development, there would be not enough space for full-size street trees. We think it is possible, with a bit of a stagger forward and backwards, to have space for street trees and commercial development. This would be a much more attractive space for the commercial customers, the residents and the wildlife around. I commend the report to the Assembly.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Economic Development and Tourism—Standing Committee
Statement by chair
MR HANSON (Murrumbidgee) (4.08): Pursuant to standing order 246A, I wish to make a statement on behalf of the Standing Committee on Economic Development and Tourism relating to statutory appointments in accordance with continuing resolution 5A. I inform the Assembly that, during the period 1 January to 30 June 2020, the standing committee considered six statutory appointments to the Cultural Facilities Corporation Board. I now table a schedule of the statutory appointments considered by the committee during this period:
Economic Development and Tourism—Standing Committee—Schedule of Statutory Appointments—9th Assembly—Period 1 January to 30 June 2020.
Environment and Transport and City Services—Standing Committee
Statement by chair
MS CHEYNE (Ginninderra) (4.09): Pursuant to standing order 246A, I wish to make a statement on behalf of the Standing Committee on Environment and Transport and City Services for the Ninth Assembly relating to statutory appointments in accordance with continuing resolution 5A. I wish to inform the Assembly that during the applicable reporting period, 1 January 2020 to 30 June 2020, the committee
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