COUNCILLOR Trevina Schwarz says Logan ratepayers are bearing an infrastructure financial burden because of a population increase which is being driven by the state government.
“There is a lack of infrastructure and what we have is not being upgraded sufficiently for the increase in population,” she said. “The roads were never constructed to take this amount of traffic.”
Cr Schwarz said ratepayers who had lived in the area for years should not have to pick up infrastructure bills from the district’s emerging priority development areas.
The Jimboomba Times understands an infrastructure agreement between Logan City Council and the government’s planning bureau Economic Development Queensland has not yet been reached.
Notes from a meeting in December 2016 between EDQ and developers of a 650-lot project on Mountain Ridge Road in the Greater Flagstone PDA, say developers expected council to upgrade the road. Pre-lodgement documents from May say the road is unsuitable for the development.
“The road in its current state is considered not to be wide enough to support the traffic volumes generated by the proposed residential development nor in a condition to support the construction traffic loads required to develop the subdivision infrastructure without significant upgrade,” the document states.
It says a four-lane upgrade would be delivered but in the meantime EDQ supported a 5 metre landscaped median in the centre of the road, 3.5 metre travel lanes and a 1.5 metre sealed shoulder.
After complaints about the deadline for submissions on the development closing on December 19, EDQ has agreed to accept suggestions until January 12.
Submissions can be emailed to pdadevelopmentassessment@dilgp.qld.gov.au.
Resident Suzi Brushett has started a petition opposing the development at change.org.
Details of the application are at edqdad.dsdip.qld.gov.au/developmentAssessments/view/front/948.
