Cr Sam Ngai on Facebook has said:
Council staff have prepared alternate scenarios to provide the 20,000+ dwelling uplift in the TOD precincts of Roseville, Lindfield, Killara and Gordon.
These scenarios are designed to mitigate the negative impacts to environment, heritage, urban canopy and town centre vitalisation that the TOD in its original form unfairly forces upon Ku-ring-gai.
Next Wednesday Council will meet to consider which of these scenarios (if any) will go out for public consultation, as well as the manner in which the public consultation will take place. Given that this is probably one of the biggest changes to face Ku-ring-gai in recent history, it is important to get the comms right in the limited time available to us.
The current aim is to form a view on the preferred scenario by February 2025. If we delay the decision too long, we will just end up with the TOD and its impacts everywhere.
The legal challenge continues in parallel though the reality is that even if the Housing SEPP is invalidated in the current form, the State Government may have a second crack and it’s worthwhile to have superior options on standby. The legal challenge and this scenario analysis are both linked, both decided unanimously by council on 8 May 2024.
I have yet to read the meeting papers in full, but they do raise some interesting questions which I need to clarify with staff in the coming days. The meeting papers are linked here