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1. Can Council ensure this development has sufficient parking on site. All too often, these projects get altered afterwards and parking spaces vanish.
   Also, can the landscaping include some shade trees - preferably native?
   The Peninsula has now lost too many trees and is now rated with Warnervale, Long Jetty and Somersby as the hottest suburb on the Central Coast.

2. these developments MUST comply with the EXISTING development regulations in the LDP currently open for community comment, Developments must be legally required to comply in all aspects of the impact to the local community including height, size street scape, heritage values, privacy, access to sunlight and as well as protecting the environment of the Peninsula and Broken Bay Area.

   The council needs to STOP approving non-compliance developments,

3. i think these new high rise developments will be good for Umina . they can be non compliant if a good cause. only slightly above height limit ok. need more hotel accomodation too, no where for visitors to stay only at Mantra

4. I think these Umina high rise developments, hotels etc, should go on the hill where they won’t impact most people and they are in fact allowed due to the slope and height of the hill.

   The Rampart, The Bastion, Castle Circuit.

   There is flat land up there with great views at a great price.

   Developers take note - best views to be had on the coast for cheapest land values.

   Or Maybe you can get the council to see the land between that part of the hill and Umina township.

   Great place for hotels to boost region - best views on the coast and the residents might really like support it.

5. these new high rise developments won’t impact on people. they are located in the commercial zone of the city centre. all planned that way . yes i also think a great idea to place hotels up the Rampart, i’ve lives up there for 12 years and views are awesome, just the access needs to be addressed. To have a hotel located in the bush setting with views would be superior to anything down on the flat.

6. Set backs and street trees are essential for attractive streescapes and should be essential, not optional when large developments are applied for. Yes, we need a range of quality housing stock, but the emphasis must be on QUALITY and that includes delivering amenity for all residents surrounding the property and using the commercial spaces created.

   When the SEPP5 shop-top Housing was rolled out on The Northern Beaches it was essential that trees be planted and set backs adhered to. Screens on balconies (to screen out clothes airers, etc) are another good way to improve the appearance of these buildings.

   The design on the commercial spaces are important. Poorly designed spaces achieve the opposite of “activating” streetscapes: they create a revolving door of tenants, become a graveyard for small businesses, and never make a good return.

   Local ratepayers expect Council to take all these aspects into consideration and demand the very best of design, particularly when a building will be there “forever”. Once it’s built it’s too late!

7. Across hey - you mean down streets that have one lane each way where people have lived for years as well? What as a community the response is too bad for them they can live in a traffic jam 24/7? Their kids can have no safe access out of their homes?

   Umina and Ettalong have no access at all anywhere for that size of over development. There are no pedestrian paths, bike paths or roads for that many people.

   Also what about the neighbours who have these developments being pushed on them? What if they need to sell next year due to health or moving or any reason at all only to find that their property value has been destroyed by the fact they get no sunlight at all, no breeze and the several hundred people literally living on top of them have a full view directly into their homes?

   Is it also NOT a commercial zone it is a designated village centre with heritage value.

   This is not a minor issue this is impacting people’s lives and financial security in their own homes today in our community - or what will be left of it after this. Today people in our community are having to decide if they leave their community because of changes that they had the right to believe the law protected them from.

   If the council wants to turn the place into the Gold Coast - Get a vote! Get community support - Understand the concerns of the people who will be negatively impacted! Don’t just listen to a developers hoping that the community looks the other way.

   People have a right to expect the laws in place are law and that they have certainty and protection for themselves, their families and their livelihoods.

   If the council wants to make changes to the laws that protect us all at the very least they are required to be transparent and have the support of the public to do so.

8. As someone who has already been impacted by a non-compliant development which has encroached on and deminised,
   1. quality of life
   2. privacy in my own home
   3. Value of my property
   4. Childrens safety in their home,
   5. Capacity for insurance (the very small development has caused drainage problem to our home which are evident in the smallest rain shower)
   And many others

   The personal cost to us of a small development that is non-complaint has been very large. I can’t state this plainly enough, one persons non-compliant development and the councils refusal to provide adequate answers/protection maybe what breaks the person living next door.

   One small development has put serious and, unnecessary and unexpected/ unforeseen distress to myself and the members of my family.

   I do not want to see this happen to other families in this community.

   I do not want to see more families driven out of their homes and carry financial burdens due to getting up one morning to find out the council and one developer have built something that is not in keeping with the area, not within the development rules, and not within what was on the initial plans.

   Because if the council ignores the laws once then those laws are worthless to everyone

   Does this sound like a few little changes that don’t really matter?? Think about what this does to the people who live your community ... if your can’t care about them, think about what if it’s me next? My children? My home? Their homes? Their schools or play grounds? My fishing spot? My beach access? My sporting facility?
   What if those are the next ones to be impacted by a few changes outside of the law??

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9. there are a lot of ill informed people here on peninsula regarding high rise developments.
   very hypocritical , nimbys . These proposed developments will be positive for the area not negative . not sure what all this fuss is about lack of trees,ect hottest suburb garbage. the Peninisula is surrounded by bush , actual high alert in summer for bush fire danger . see if you want more trees once your own house is under threat from a fireball . The peninsula has plenty of trees, i have a view high up from Rampart, all you can see is trees.
   These new developments are good for community and future generations. it’s progress and gives positive outlook for the area

10. I understand Council has been told by NSW Government to make provision for another 70,000 residents by 2036. Towns along existing transport routes (road and rail) will become zoned maximum density as Gosford is now. While population expansion is inevitable, good town planning is even more important than ever.
    Council is struggling with it's planning instruments from the amalgamation so out-of-compliance developments have to be challenged for everyone's sake.
    The Peninsula will be right in the firing line for more residences being closest to Greater Sydney and is already suffering from canopy loss because of in-fill housing, villas and town houses - with no space for trees as the lots become too small.
    Safe and tidy tree varieties don't have to be natives (Council prefers natives) not rangy eucalypts, to plant strategically on your place or out the front (look up Dial-Before-You-Dig to check for underground services and overhead wires).
    I don't have a problem with this development inside the Umina town centre - so long as it is COMPLIANT with planning standards.

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