Page 2048 - Week 07 - Wednesday, 6 August 2014

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(e) that traffic management planning for the development should include consideration of the intersection of Cotter Road and Adelaide Avenue;

(f) there are concerns that existing traffic on streets included in and adjacent to the proposed development will be made worse both during redevelopment and when the new housing areas are completed;

(g) that a range of contamination studies have been undertaken on the site since 2001 and have been used to determine indicative containment/remediation costings;

(h) the high level of community interest and the numerous submissions provided to the LDA during its recent community consultation period;

(i) that, in response to community concerns, the ACT Government commissioned a revised traffic study which is currently being conducted by SMEC and will be made available to the public in September 2014; and

(j) that the LDA has committed to responding to feedback and comments raised during the consultation period via newsletter by September 2014; and

(2) calls on the Government to:

(a) take careful note of the issues raised during the consultation process;

(b) publicly release the revised traffic study detailing the full traffic implications of this development;

(c) provide detailed and fully costed analyses of the full traffic implications of this development for both the local area, West Deakin and Yarralumla, and the wider Canberra community, including Curtin, Hughes, Woden and costs of upgrades to existing roads and construction of new roads and overpasses;

(d) provide, when available, a detailed asbestos removal and remediation plan, including where the asbestos and any contaminated materials will be disposed;

(e) publicly release the Traffic Management Plan associated with the proposed remediation at the Canberra Brickworks Complex including, to every extent possible, the details about the impact of trucks on the existing road infrastructure in the designated areas; and

(f) provide a detailed response to questions of traffic, building heights, community facilities and parklands, all of which have been raised as concerns in submissions to the LDA.”.

Clearly, the delivery of this and other urban infill projects is an important part of the broader ACT government planning policy framework that is set out in our planning strategy of 2012 and the transport for Canberra policy of that same year. It responds to


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