Walter Taylor South Action Group Inc. Protecting the Streetscapes

We have transcribed the answers from Council Candidates from the evening from the attached audio file.
 
Answers to pre-prepared questions are attached to the original questions with written answers:

• BCC Candidate Q1of8 - Solving problems with State Government
• BCC Candidate Q2of8 - Green Space, Density, Livability, Amenity
• BCC Candidate Q3of8 - Traffic Issues
• BCC Candidate Q4of8 - Flood Area Policy
• BCC Candidate Q5of8 - Temporary Flood Instrument
• BCC Candidate Q6of8 - Public Transport for our area
• BCC Candidate Q7of8 - Community Use Zoning
• BCC Candidate Q8of8 - Community Consultation Standards

Questions and Answers asked on the evening are posted as comments to this article:

• Floor Q1 - Sherwood Aboretum
• Floor Q2 - Why are there no plans for cycleways
• Floor Q3 - Cycling and Public Transport Integration
• Floor Q4 - Bikes and Sherwood Road Rail Bridge
• Floor Q5 - Dangerous Cycling Routes
• Floor Q6 - Pedestrian Safety
• Floor Q7 - Integrated Road Network
• Floor Q8 - Elderly Access to CBD
• Floor Q9 - Cost of public transport
• Floor Q10 - Consultation Sherwood Graceville Neighbourhood Plan
• Floor Q11 - Fill near Oxley Markets
• Floor Q12 - Flood Backflow Devices and proposed Tennyson Park
• Floor Q13 - Street Tree funding

The Walter Taylor South Action Group committee has reviewed the community questions submitted and consolidated these questions for all candidates to answer in writing prior to our community meeting.
 
The committee needed to balance the number of questions with topics covered to allow time for questions at the end of the community meeting from the floor.  Some specific questions have been incorporated into more general questions that all candidates should be capable of answering.
 
These questions have been sent to those council candidates who have agreed to respond in writing to those questions. 
Tennyson : Matt Brodie (LNP), Nicole Johnston (Independent), Shane McKenna (Labor)
Jamboree : Fran Bell (Labor), Matthew Bourke (LNP)
At this stage we have not received responses indicating participation from any other candidates.
 
You can find these questions on our website at http://www.wtsag.org.au.  These questions are for candidates to respond, so please do not post comments directly on the website to these questions.
 
You will also notice flyers starting to appear in neighbourhood letterboxes in the next week inviting all residents to attend our community meeting on Tuesday 17th April to talk to candidates.  Please discuss with your neighbours so that they might also come along.
 
The community meeting will be chaired by an independent, non-resident of the area - an announcement on the chair is expected shortly as we finalise matters.   In order to allow the evening to proceed smoothly one candidate from each party will address the audience - at this stage it is expected Matthew Bourke, Nicole Johnston and Ray Smith will represent their party.  Candidates will be asked to address the question and not other candidates.
 
Matt Brodie and Shane McKenna have indicated that they both had prior engagements for our evening even though we invited them many weeks ago.  Let them both know you will be going to the community meeting so they can understand the breadth of the community involvement (just click on their names above to send an email).
 
Each candidate will be given 1 minute to introduce themselves to the residents.  The formal questions will be asked of each of the candidates in a rotating order and they will each have 2 minutes to respond.  This will allow each candidate to explain or clarify further their written response which will be been published on our website prior to the meeting.
At the end of the formal questions, questions will be invited from the floor.  We ask that all questions are asked in such a way that all candidates will be able to answer the question.
Candidates will be given a warning bell 15 seconds prior to the finalisation of any discussion and a termination bell upon completion of the allocated time period.
 
We have also received some late questions which locals may ask themselves on the evening, so we have left the following area open for comments people may have. (Please use this area in preference to the candidate area for comments).
 
The Committee
Walter Taylor South Action Group Inc.

What are your plans to address such cross-government issues as the Jerrold Street underpass, the Chelmer TAFE sale, Alan Fletcher Research Station sale, the proposed ambulance station, public housing such as that near Quarry Road, future use of Oxley Creek Common and surrounding areas, the Sherwood railway bridge and the Corinda Railway bridge?

What specific plans and implementation timetable do you propose with regard to green space, suburb density and liveability and residential amenity in our ward?

What is your proposed plan for reducing traffic volume and or delays on Oxley Road including the bottlenecks at the Corinda Railway Bridge, the Walter Taylor Bridge, and the Oxley Road/Sherwood Road intersection?

What do you think are the best policies to develop with respect to flood-prone areas, given that Queensland flood mapping will make clearer the vulnerable areas, and how will you work to achieve implementation of those policies - over what time frame?

What restrictions will you consider to prevent exploitation of the BCC’s Temporary Local Planning Instrument by homeowners whose properties have not been flooded or even been close to flooding, even though they may be in a suburb where flooding occurred?

What is your policy on public transport for our immediate area and how and over what time frame will you work to achieve implementation of that policy?

How will you work to ensure that community-use facilities such as sporting grounds, retirement villages or nursing homes, schools, and public housing fit in well with the community, especially with regard to applications for rezoning of those properties for other uses?