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Pursuant to standing order 99A, the petition, having more than 500 signatories, was referred to the Standing Committee on Planning and Urban Renewal.
Planning—Chisholm—petition 9-20
By Mr Wall, from 71 residents:
To the Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory
This petition of certain residents of the Australian Capital Territory draws to the attention of the Assembly that: The ACT Government propose to redevelop number 2 and 4 Durham Place Chisholm otherwise known as Blocks 18 and 19 Section 532 Chisholm to include 2-3 dwellings where single dwellings were previously. We the residents, are concerned about the additional traffic and noise generated by extra dwellings in a small area and believe this development is out of character with the surrounding neighbourhood. The construction of up to 3 dwellings on one block is inconsistent with the RI zoning of the area.
Your petitioners therefore request that the proposal be revised to be consistent with the appropriate planning controls.
The Clerk having announced that the terms of the petitions would be recorded in Hansard and referred to the appropriate ministers for response pursuant to standing order 100, the petitions were received.
Motion to take note of petitions
MADAM SPEAKER: Pursuant to standing order 98A, I propose the question:
That the petitions so lodged be noted.
Planning—Weston parkland—petition 5-20
MS LE COUTEUR (Murrumbidgee) (10.05): I am pleased to be able to support the 1,112 of my constituents who signed this petition but am appalled that the government is planning to replace a much-loved piece of green space with a car park.
The government is planning that the green space next to Cooleman Court will be replaced with asphalt to make it into a car park. This will lead to a hotter local environment, less tree canopy cover and less amenity. In particular, for the immediate neighbours at the townhouse complex at 8 Watling Place, there will be ongoing light pollution from lights over the car park and noise pollution from the construction and then operation of the unneeded and unwanted car park.
I say “unneeded” because an FOI that was put in by the neighbours found that parking surveys from 2008 showed spare car spaces near Cooleman Court at all times of the day, including even the peak time on late Saturday afternoon, when there were almost 200 free car spaces around Cooleman Court. And there was more parking added to Cooleman Court in 2019.
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