Venue By Zoom 4:00pm
Apologies. Chris Watson, Russ Temple, Darryl Seto
Present: Robyn Coghlan, , Doug Finlayson, David Kelly, Rosemary Blemings, , John Connelly
- Acceptance of the minutes of last meeting (Thur 21 Apr 2022).
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- Moved Robyn , Seconded Dave K
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- Matters arising:
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- Dave K cannot find the DA for the Green Waste Facility. It should be on the website soon.
- Dave K. New Planning Bill should be our main focus. Dave has sent out a draft submission
- Bill can be thought of in two parts. 1) General Rules. This section outlines matters which require an EIS. 2) Mattters which are exempt from the Bill (eg local landscaping)
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ZOOM drops out for a period.
- Treasurers report
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- Missed this report.
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- Web masters report.
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- No report. Darryl not present.
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- Mature trees consultation.
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- Robyn. We should make a submission.
- Dave K. Highest number of trees are in urban areas.
- Robyn. Recounts that they have two Blakleys Red Gums on their property . They have bben informed that these trees are not considered dangerous but they have received no information on how to manage them.
- Robyn. We should make the point that the papers give no guidelines on protection.
- Rosemary. Need to comment on protection during development of new Greenfield sites. These trees are important however the department provides no information on management. This is always done by volunteers.
- Dave K. At McNamarra the general public had no say in the development. Protection rules only apply to private land.
- ACTION. Dave K. will put some words together regarding the mature trees submission.
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- Urban Forest Bill
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- DISCUSSION of Urban Forest Bill. ShouldGFA make a submission. Closing date is 27th May.
- Dave K. We should lobby politicians re the Urban Forest bill.
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- PLANNING BILL
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- Each group should make a separate submission rather than trying for a joint submission. CPAG have already made a submission,
- Robyn. Consultants from Sydney and Melboure will not have a good grasp of the different conditions in Canberra.
- ACTION Robyn. Will write a submission as she already has to do one for another organisation
- Dave K. Away until Tue 24th May so difficult to make any contribution.
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- Any other business.
MEETING CLOSED 17:00.
NEXT MEETING. Via ZOOM. Thur 16th June 4:00pm.
Committee
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