MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
The 4485 meeting of the Brisbane City Council,
held at City Hall, Brisbane
on Tuesday 24 November 2015
at 2pm
Prepared by:
Council and Committee Liaison Office
Chief Executive’s Office
Office of the Lord Mayor and the Chief Executive Officer
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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
THE 4485 MEETING OF THE BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL,HELD AT CITY HALL, BRISBANE,
ON TUESDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2015
AT 2PM
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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PRESENT: 1
OPENING OF MEETING: 1
MINUTES: 1
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION: 1
QUESTION TIME: 2
CONSIDERATION OF COMMITTEE REPORTS: 2
ESTABLISHMENT AND COORDINATION COMMITTEE 2
A PERMIT TO OCCUPY BRUNSWICK STREET MALL, POD 1 – THE UNITING HANDS FOUNDATION AUSTRALIA LIMITED 15
B ALBION NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN 17
INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE 18
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – CITY PARKING – INITIATIVES 21
B PETITION – REDUCE SPEED LIMIT ON WYNNUM ROAD TO 40 KM/H 21
PUBLIC AND ACTIVE TRANSPORT COMMITTEE 23
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – ADDITIONAL EARLY MORNING BUZ TRIPS 25
NEIGHBOURHOOD PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE 26
A DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION UNDER SUSTAINABLE PLANNING ACT 2009: DEVELOPMENT PERMIT - MATERIAL CHANGE OF USE FOR SHORT-TERM ACCOMMODATION (HOTEL) AND INDOOR SPORT AND RECREATION (GYM) – 1/23 MILES PLATTING ROAD, EIGHT MILE PLAINS – STRONGHOLD BTP HOTEL PTY LTD 28
B PETITION – OBJECTING TO A DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION FOR HEALTH SERVICES (MEDICAL CENTRE) AT 158 WARRIGAL ROAD, RUNCORN (APPLICATION REFERENCE A004059861) 30
C PETITION – OBJECTING TO A DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION FOR A FOOD AND DRINK OUTLET, A SHOP AND CARETAKER’S ACCOMMODATION AT 185 THISTLE STREET, GORDON PARK (APPLICATION REFERENCE A004121400) 31
ENVIRONMENT, PARKS AND SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE 35
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – SNAKES OF BRISBANE 39
B PETITION – REQUEST THAT COUNCIL INSTALL ADDITIONAL STORMWATER DRAINS AT 300 BROADWATER ROAD, MANSFIELD, TO REDUCE FLOODING 39
C PETITION – OBJECTION TO THE WALTON BRIDGE PARK DEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL 41
FIELD SERVICES COMMITTEE 42
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – KELVIN GROVE ROAD AND WINDSOR ROAD INTERSECTION UPGRADE 43
B PETITION – PETITION REQUESTING THAT COUNCIL CLEAR THE STORMWATER DRAIN RUNNING PARALLEL TO HOPE STREET, NORMAN PARK 44
BRISBANE LIFESTYLE COMMITTEE 45
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – DEVELOPMENT OF THE WYNNUM COMMUNITY CENTRE 47
FINANCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE 48
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – CHRISTMAS IN THE CITY 2015 50
CONSIDERATION OF NOTIFIED MOTION – LOCATION OF PARK IN WEST END: 51
PRESENTATION OF PETITIONS: 62
GENERAL BUSINESS: 63
QUESTIONS OF WHICH DUE NOTICE HAS BEEN GIVEN: 71
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS OF WHICH DUE NOTICE HAS BEEN GIVEN: 72
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PRESENT:
The Right Honourable the LORD MAYOR (Councillor Graham QUIRK) – LNP
The Chairman of Council, Councillor Angela OWEN-TAYLOR (Parkinson Ward) – LNP
LNP Councillors (and Wards) / ALP Councillors (and Wards)Krista ADAMS (Wishart)
Matthew BOURKE (Jamboree)
Amanda COOPER (Bracken Ridge)
Margaret de WIT (Pullenvale)
Vicki HOWARD (Central) (Deputy Chairman of Council)
Steven HUANG (Macgregor)
Fiona KING (Marchant)
Kim MARX (Karawatha)
PeterMATIC (Toowong)
Ian McKENZIE (Holland Park)
David McLACHLAN (Hamilton)
Ryan MURPHY (Doboy)
Adrian SCHRINNER (Chandler) (Deputy Mayor)
Julian SIMMONDS (Walter Taylor)
Steven TOOMEY (The Gap)
Andrew WINES (Enoggera)
NormWYNDHAM (McDowall) / Milton DICK (Richlands) (The Leader of the Opposition)
Helen ABRAHAMS (The Gabba) (Deputy Leader of the Opposition)
PeterCUMMING (Wynnum Manly)
Jared CASSIDY (Deagon)
KimFLESSER (Northgate)
SteveGRIFFITHS (Moorooka)
ShayneSUTTON (Morningside)
Independent Councillor (and Ward)
Nicole JOHNSTON (Tennyson)
OPENING OF MEETING:
The Chairman, Councillor Angela OWEN-TAYLOR, opened the meeting with prayer, and then proceeded with the business set out in the Agenda.
Councillor JOHNSTON: Point of order, Madam Chairman.
Chairman: Point of order; Councillor JOHNSTON.
Councillor JOHNSTON: I just notice there’s a flyer on our desk. When we had a group here seeking to table a flyer to every Councillor, you refused to allow it. So, can you just tell me what the procedure is, please, for speakers to provide flyers to every Councillor?
Chairman: Certainly, Councillor JOHNSTON. Where the particular public speaker has made a request through the Chairman of this Council via the Clerks requesting permission to distribute the flyers, and those flyers were given to the Clerks prior to the meeting, and the Clerks were able to distribute them to each Councillor, that is the appropriate process for this Chamber.
MINUTES:
253/2015-16
The Minutes of the 4484 meeting of Council held on 17 November 2015, copies of which had been forwarded to each Councillor, were presented, taken as read and confirmed on the motion of Councillor Andrew WINES, seconded by Councillor Kim MARX.
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION:
Mr Maxwell Bissett – The role of the Redland City Town Crier
File number: 137/220/701/238
Chairman: I would now like to call on Mr Maxwell Bissett who will address the Chamber on the role of the Redland City Town Crier. Orderly, please show Mr Bissett in.
Mr Bissett, you have five minutes; please proceed.
Mr Maxwell Bissett: All you! All you! All you! Madam Chairman, LORD MAYOR and Councillors; I bring greetings from Mayor Karen Williams and Redland City Council. I thank you for the opportunity to address Brisbane City Council today.
Town crying is an honourable craft in Australia, and a Town Crier can add colour and pageantry to civic events. In most cases, the town crier is a voluntary position. The crier is appointed by council to act as council’s authorised representative in the manner and as required from time to time by council. Each council determines its crier’s role, and examples of activities include welcoming distinguished visitors to the city, participation in civic events, and assistance in charitable fundraising.
The main requirements for the position are a loud voice, good posture, a good outfit, a stout pair of boots, and good preparation as you act as an ambassador for your city.
Redland City Council will be hosting the 25th Annual Town Crying Championships in 2016. Criers from capital cities, including Sydney and Canberra, will attend. Many provincial centres such as Alice Springs, Geelong, Gosford, Rockingham and Maryborough will also be present. It would be highly desirable for a Brisbane City Crier to be available too.
Last month, in the absence of your own Town Crier, I was invited to be at Brisbane Open House at this splendid City Hall and also in King George Square. I have also been involved as town crier at Fort Lytton for your History Alive for the past three years. I hope that next year, for these and similar functions, your own Town Crier’s voice will be heard. May God bless Brisbane City Council, and God Save the Queen!
Chairman: Thank you, Mr Bissett. Councillor ADAMS, would you care to respond?
Response by Councillor Krista ADAMS, Chairman of the Brisbane Lifestyle Committee
Councillor ADAMS: Thank you, Madam Chair. It did feel like we needed to clap. Thank you, Mr Bissett, that was spectacular. Can I say you obviously fill all the criteria of a town crier, and not one of us envies you today in your beautiful costume in the heat outside. You have done a magnificent job to be wearing full regalia today in 35 degree heat.
Thank you very much for coming in and address us. I know that you have run into many of our councils around the place; Fort Lytton, et cetera and Open House. We do use town criers. We don’t have a set town crier who is the Brisbane Town Crier, but we do use them on many occasions. So I am glad that you were able to help us with the Open House. We had our anniversary of World Expo in 2013, and we had a town crier that actually led the parade. So we do have events where we have town criers that we use, but I think in a city this size, having one town crier, I think we need to keep our options open for the available town criers as well.
As you said, the Open House program was fantastic on 10 November; another very warm weekend. I imagine you well and truly did your job outside there in King George Square in your regalia as well. Thank you very much. We had over 4000 people that came into City Hall on that day, so that is fantastic, too, for your to show off your talents there as well.
The other event—and I say this in the absence of former Councillor VictoriaNewton—we had a penny farthing ride from City Hall to Sandgate in November 2013 as well, where we had a town crier who delivered a handwritten letter from the LORD MAYOR and read it out at the Town Hall at the end of the ride. That was the same town crier that we used for the World Expo 88 anniversary as well.
Can I suggest that we get in contact with you, because we do have many, many events at City Hall, and Epicure, who runs City Hall, actually also has the opportunity if people want to use town criers for their events that they may have in City Hall as well. So, thank you so much for coming in today and showing us your performance. It was absolutely spectacular. Let’s get in contact, and we’ll talk about opportunities to help us out here in Brisbane. Thank you.
Chairman: Thank you, Mr Bissett. If you’d like to provide your business card to the Orderly, I am sure he will pass that on to Councillor ADAMS for you. Thank you so much for coming in.
Jane Milburn – The need to create a more sustainable clothing culture
File number: 137/220/701/254
Chairman: I would now like to call on Ms Jane Milburn who will address the Chamber on the need to create a more sustainable clothing culture. Orderly, please show Ms Milburn in.
Welcome, Ms Milburn; the material that you have provided to the Clerks has been distributed to all Councillors. Please proceed; you have five minutes.
Ms Jane Milburn: Thank you; Madam Chairman, LORD MAYOR and Councillors: today you are either wearing natural fibres or synthetic fibres derived from petroleum. Every day we eat and we dress, and in the same way we’ve become conscious of our food, we are now more conscious of our clothing and what we are wearing. This pinafore was created from rescued wool suits that were one step away from landfill. I’m a natural fibre champion, and I’ve got a background in issues based communication, and I am now seeking to help create a more sustainable clothing culture.
Thank you for this opportunity. The past decade has seen a transformational shift in where and how our clothing is made, and that raises ethical issues. Consumption is increasing. In two decades, individual annual fibre use across the globe has doubled from seven to 13 kilograms each. That is the average. There has been a fibre change. A decade ago, half of new clothing was natural fibres and half was synthetics. Now, two-thirds of new clothing is synthetics, and research shows that it is shedding micro-plastic particles with every wash.
There is a waste mountain. Charities do a great job with the mass of castoff clothing, yet only about 20 per cent of donations find a new owner locally; the rest is ragged, dumped or sent overseas. Every year Australia exports 70million kilograms of used clothing, and it is sold for $1 a kilo.
There is modern day slavery existing in other parts of the world; that is why our clothing is so cheap. Garment workers are being exploited in developing nations. Rana Plaza showed us that, and it sparked a fashion revolution of which I am part. There is a loss of knowledge; we treat clothing as disposable. There is little understanding of the skill and time involved in making, and there is an inability to even sew on a button or mend a hem that might fall down.
So, global awareness of clothing waste is rising, and responses are emerging. In the UK they have a sustainable clothing action plan run by a resource group called WRAP which works with industry and consumers. They have a ‘Love your Clothes’ campaign to help consumers buy, use and pass on clothing to reduce textile waste to landfill. This program is extending into Europe with the European Clothing Action Plan. It is a €3.6 million pilot project which aims to ensure less clothing goes to waste, and encourages consumers to buy less and use it for longer.
In the US there is a textile collection system in New York apartments called Wearable Collections, because clothing is not garbage, and San Francisco has a zero textile waste strategy. Wouldn’t it be great if we could bring this consciousness to Brisbane and Australia? We recycle paper, glass, metal, plastic, probably other things as well, but there is an opportunity to be more proactive with textiles. We need leadership to help create that sustainable clothing culture. I am just one person, and I am trying to create change through my actions. I launched Textile Beat at a Green Heart fair in 2013. I do talks and workshops; I share this slow fashion manifesto. I hope that, by being here today, it is the start of a broader sustainable clothing conversation that can help build on Brisbane’s great sustainability ethos. Thank you.
Chairman: Thank you, Ms Milburn.
Councillor McLACHLAN, would you care to respond, please?
Response by Councillor David McLACHLAN, Chairman of the Field Services Committee
Councillor McLACHLAN: Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you, Jane, for coming in today. It is a bit of a hard act to follow, after the previous speaker, and it is a very serious subject, but we thank you for coming in here today to talk about the issues that you are so passionate about. We share your passion for reuse and recycling. It is probably fair to say, though, we probably haven’t applied ourselves as fulsomely as we could have to textiles. You have given us some serious food for thought.
At our waste transfer stations, we do have receptacles for clothing, for textiles, but I think it is fair to say we probably don’t promote it as well as we should. I think with the booths that are around the city that are disappearing because they are generally abused, the receptacles that are provided in little shopping centres for clothing for the charities have essentially been taken out in a lot of locations unfortunately. I think we do have to recreate the culture of reuse of those clothes.