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1. You have to be kidding! Boarding houses do not belong in shopping centres. There already is a proposed unit development for Fauna Pl and another boarding house development very close by on President Ave. The current traffic conditions can hardly cope now. The traffic on Oak Rd is becoming a joke. What will the traffic situation be like when these developments are built? Where as the new residents going to park? Doesn't any body have any consideration for the current residents who go to Kirrawee shops or have to drive through there to get home or go somewhere

2. The application should be rejected as the local area and traffic conditions are not appropriate currently even after minor road modification to the north of flora street. Oak road is a major thoroughfare now for many people for work school or shopping. Council and the state government would need to fix the traffic and volume flows before any consideration to such a plan.

3. Drug users and dealers have discovered the brick pit , more and more users are hanging around , The traffic chaos in the area, with traffic queuing onto President Avenue, the area alive with school children , boarding houses are usually places for excons, drug users, and other lower socio-economic, No boarding house.

4. I would like to know which Councillors voted in favor of this development, so that we can actively campaign against their position on Council. Apart from over development of a
   village site, the possible itinerant tenants would have little or no commitment to the area.
   As a resident of Fauna Place, already congested, in will be a traffic nightmare.
   Did anyone from Council, with any semblance of common sense actually consider the ramifications? Or was it just another rubber stamp to further increase Council revenue?
   Very good reason to just mark your name off at Council election time, because it appears that none of them are worth their salt!

5. I strongly do not support this Planning Application on the basis that the intended use of a Boarding House Development is not appropriate for this area and will ruin the local amenity of the Kirrawee community.

   Traffic congestion is already an issue to Oak Road and the local network, and this will not assist in this regard. Oak Road is a major thoroughfare and there is not enough adequate parking to the street, or the close-by on-grade car park. I suspect, that like all other development in the Sutherland Shire, insufficient basement parking will be provided.

   Great consideration needs to also be provided by the Council to the types of people that would be housed in this development noting that it would be located in the town centre which is frequented by school children and families. There is a great risk in attracting the wrong crowds due it it being at the town centre. Kirrawee is currently a great suburb that will be ruined if this occurs.

   I was under the impression that a number of similar boarding house developments have already been rejected on Oak Road. The same should be done for this development.

6. Council just spent time and money asking the community of Kirrawee for submissions on how to improve the village, it's shopping centre and atmosphere. I do not believe any one suggested adding a boarding house.
   Traffic congestion in and around Oak Rd is already terrible (whatever the SIDRA computer program concluded, I actually live here). Please consider the current residents and not just how many more people you can possibly fit into this already bulging community.

7. Boarding Houses are for inner city areas not the Shire. Media has reported Murders, overdoses, Bashing's etc in Boarding Houses. Why are Councillors hell bent on destroying the Shire & making it more dangerous for Residents. Violent Crimes, Break ins, Car Theft & Rape is escalating in the once quiet Shire. The Police & Stats do not lie!!!

8. This is a disgrace, as already mentioned previously the amount of drug users already in the area and around South Village that you see around the park up there and utilising the public toilets within the food court area is a blight on the area and now there is a proposal to add another boarding house to the area. The council have rocks in their heads or don't have a care in the world for the Kirrawee area if they allow another development like this. There are children that play in the park up at South Village and will also be utilising the new park next to the station plus the children that go to the council run day care. Do you think the parents of these children will want their children subject to this kind of element?

9. We are owners of a shop on the main street of Kirrawee, the strip is only now just recovering after the disruption on the South Village development and road works, and we believe that the main shopping strip of Kirrawee is not an appropriate place to build a multi storey boarding house. We have grave concerns for the type of people that will reside in this boarding house and its proximity to the train station where many children catch the train to and from school each day and the nearby proposed park will be another place frequented by lots of children these are reason enough reject this proposal. Statistics show that violent crime and drug use increase in the vicinity of boarding homes which will only add to the increasing drug problem in the South village precinct.

10. Unfortunately Council does not consider the Rate Payers in 95% of most situations. They want high rises everywhere ...all that Rate money. Our Elected Councillors have affiliations with Political Parties. Politics rules the world nowadays...commonsense, compassion & respect have left our Planet.....we can't expect the ordinary male & female Councillors to respect the Rate Payers. We all know we are over governed in Australia...how do we stop this ??
    Re:,A Boarding House in Kirrawee...shows how much empathy Councillors have for the poor people of Kirrawee.

11. I agree with all the points made about the vulnerability of children, putting a boarding house in kirrawee is a grave error of judgement, already the brick pit is being used by drug dealers and users. Sutherlands crime rate has increased , it made the news.

12. I keep the same opinion as I have commented on the previous application on the boarding house at different location near Kirrawee train station: as a resident, we don't need a boarding house next door, no good for the local economy and stability, safety concerns for children take public transport.

13. New issue: PARKING!...all new developments in the shire seem to create an issue with parking. There is NEVER enough spaces for all persons with cars within such developments care of the council, zoning and inadequacy. This will mean 1. when building the all day parking at Kirrawee station will be taken up by tradesmen to start with (look at cronulla/wavelength) and 2. then post completion the all day free parking spaces will be taken up by residents...no room for commuters. This will mean a new multistorey carpark will be required...at ratepayers expense???? or the NSW State Government???....after submissions, waffling, lobbying etc... 5 years..so residents, commuters, rate payers will suffer (as usual).

14. My cousin lives in a townhouse in the Shire. She only has 1 garage - the Family has 4 cars. Their Cars are parked on the already crowded street...sometimes they have to park about 5 streets away & walk home. Not good in the cold dark winter, ppstticulstly if it is raining. More & more people moving into the Shire because of the type of dwellings being built. Traffic Jams in the once quiet leafy Shire....sadly bad planning continues.

15. My cousin lives in a townhouse in the Shire. She only has 1 garage - the Family has 4 cars. Their Cars are parked on the already crowded street...sometimes they have to park about 5 streets away & walk home. Not good in the cold dark winter, ppstticulstly if it is raining. More & more people moving into the Shire because of the type of dwellings being built. Traffic Jams in the once quiet leafy Shire....sadly bad planning continues.

16. Just another example of council corruption. I won't be voting these clowns in again after approving this development. I've spoken with a friend who does real estate law and he can't believe legally how this was approved. There needs to be an investigation into council corruption and the links to developers.

17. It’s a total clown show - 4 boarding houses within 400m of each other near Kirrawee train station. Is that really needed? I’ve written to councillors so many times - only 1 response from 1 individual. All this is okay for them as it’s not on their doorstep. Wee will get the usual platitudes. “Boarding Houses aren’t what you think”. Yes they are - the police think so, no doubt my kids will think so when they get hassled by another ice addict on the way over to the shops. Affordable living for overseas students? Not really - society’s drop outs on cheap rental assistance surrounding us on all sides. It really is a total embarrassment- really - 4 boarding houses within 400m? Council and town planners should be ashamed of themselves, who are they representing?

18. I have just become aware of this proposed development.
    I am flabbergasted. This is a village environment. The scale, purpose and overall impact of this development is entirely inconsistent with the needs and interests of the local community who patronise this precinct on a daily basis. People need "people-scale" spaces in which to thrive.
    It is very difficult to see how such a proposal could be agreed to when it will serve to alienate this corner of the village from local use. Could this be the thin edge of the wedge?

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