Key issues raised in submissions

• There is a need for a grey-boat area on the Logan River and sand transfer station would be the prefect accompaniment. Such a development would meet a different demand from Steiglitz.
• Master plan to consider maintenance dredging for proportional payment and the right to sell or use the sand.
• Queensland Government to consider 10-year service contracts for the provision of maintenance dredging services to provide better certainty for contractors and developers.
• Master plan to consider capital dredging needs to create destinations. The Broadwater is at capacity and alternative locations need to be provided.
• Approval guidelines are too stringent. Master plan to consider ways of streamlining approvals. Give greater consideration to establishing environmental offsets toward impacts of development.
• Master plan to consider the need to upgrade existing road infrastructure.
• Master plan should consider a theme for each area.
• Review the 100 m buffer between development and foreshore for public access. The requirement for provision of a public open space corridor along Moreton Bay to facilitate pedestrian and cycling activities is supported within the planning and design guidelines for Steiglitz within the draft North East Gold Coast (NEGC) Land Use Strategy. However, this pedestrian access along the site is in conflict with the industrial intent of the precinct. The master plan should consider a flexible outcome to this requirement allowing public access and facilities in appropriate places, but that continued public access across the front of the site is inappropriate given it involves pedestrian movements between the slipway and other boating facilities and the industrial sheds.
• The master plan to consider the creation of an internal waterway. The creation of an internal waterway limits direct access points to Moreton Bay. Facilitates access to marine industry sites, can provide an important flood mitigation solution and act as a buffer between the site and the adjacent Cabbage Tree Point village.
• There is a need for consideration of infrastructure allowing access to the marine precincts. It was suggested that the master plan consider the need for an inter-modal road connecting the marine precincts and other industry from southern Redland Bay through to Steiglitz and Jacobs Well to proposed major residential developments at Pimpama. Significant industry, including marine, sugarcane farming and milling, sand extraction, traditional agriculture, aquaculture, co-generation/ethanol production, as well as some residential development, justifies the need to consider major transport infrastructure.
• Require defined areas for fishing using GIS coordinates around highly constrained areas.
• There are enough boat ramps in the Broadwater. It is more an issue of managing the queuing system.
• Consider a link from Redland Bay to the Western Road, Macleay Island resulting in a 2.5 km link as opposed to 7 km. Also a link by vehicular ferry from Little Rocky Point to Rocky Point, Russell Island resulting in a 1.5 km trip as opposed to 13 km.
• Consider a causeway over Lucas Passage from Macleay Island so that Lamb Island can access the ferry with one less vehicular barge ramp.
• Consider the inclusion of Tabby Tabby Island opposite Steiglitz as a destination for boating enthusiasts in the master plan. The strategic location of this site places the island in an ideal location for commercial development to serve recreational and other boating interests in these waterways. The island abuts the main navigation channels between Brisbane and southern Moreton Bay in the north and the Gold Coast and Broadwater in the south.
• Consider putting a rock wall at Jumpinpin Bar. Excessive silting has occurred over the years in Moreton Bay destroying the oyster industry due to a reduced tidal surge in the bay which used to effectively disperse the silt. This change in tidal surge came about after the opening of the Jumpinpin Bar. The longer-term view would be to close the Jumpinpin Bar in the hope that the tidal surge would return to its original effectiveness.
• Consider the inclusion of the Pimpama River in the master plan for commercial/recreational development.
• After sand mining activity is completed around the Pimpama Jacobs Well Road, Behms Road and Stapylton Jacobs Well Roads, a large area would be left providing an opportunity to establish a lake offering water sports, recreational facilities, parkland and public access areas. It could also offer limited lakefront residential sites on the western side near Behms Road. The construction of a channel connecting to a natural channel in the bay could be developed to enable a full scale marina along Behms Road.
• Lack of viability in the sugarcane growing industry has forced us to consider alternative uses for our land. Current zoning does not allow for non-rural activity in the area. As land owners adjoining a proposed marina facility on the mouth of the Logan River, we would like the master plan to give consideration to opportunities to rezone the adjoining land for residential purposes around the proposed marina development.