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8.3.2 Intergenerational equity Establishing intergenerational equity allows for the needs of today to be met without affecting the ability of future generations to meet their own needs, as termed by the World Commission on Environment and Development in 1993 when defining sustainable development. In instances where environmental resources and values are preserved for use by future generations to create ‘wealth’ this is termed ‘weak sustainable development’. Where there is recognition that humans cannot replace a degrading environmental resource or value for future generations to benefit from this is termed ‘strong sustainable development’. At a fundamental level, the proposal would preserve the established built road environment of Sydney city centre for use by future generations. It would have little impact on environmental resources and values other than the required use of a limited amount of natural resources to construct the proposal. Roads and Maritime is also committed to its Climate Change Plan and the NSW Greenhouse Gas Plan (refer to section 6.13). Both include priorities to ensure that Road and Maritime reduces its demands on natural resources by conserving energy, reducing the carbon footprint of all developments and accommodating climate change into its designs. Roads and Maritime has committed to these measures in designing this proposal. In addition, the proposal’s core function is to maintain road performance into the future in light of changing allocations and priorities introduced under the Access Strategy. It would therefore support Access Strategy initiatives to: Improve mobility and access by setting priorities that favour walking, cycling and public transport priorities on some of the city’s most congested roads Encourage biking and walking by supporting wider Access Strategy projects Make it more attractive for people to use public transport by improving its travel times and access into, around and out of the city. These measures encourage reduced reliance on private vehicle use, which is anticipated to remain relatively unchanged over the coming years. Consequently, greenhouse gas emission would also remain relatively stable. However, the emission ‘per trip’ would reduce as a result of maintaining private vehicle travel in the context of an anticipated 23 per cent increase in the number of journeys made into the city each day in 2031. These measures collectively support sustainable transport initiatives and form part of any city’s wider agenda for sustainable development. Overall, therefore, the proposal commits to intergenerational equity and sustainable development. 8.3.3 Conservation of biological diversity and ecological integrity Preserving biological diversity and ecological integrity requires that ecosystems, species, and biological diversity are maintained. As concluded in the biodiversity assessment (refer to section 6.9), the proposal would not impact on threatened, endangered or vulnerable species, communities, populations or their associated habitat. Therefore biological diversity and ecological integrity would not be affected by the proposal. Sydney City Centre Capacity Improvement 467 Review of Environmental Factors
8.3.4 Improved valuation, pricing and incentive mechanisms The pricing of environmental resources involves placing a monetary value on natural assets and services. The principle suggests that Roads and Maritime should: Bear reasonable costs to avoid pollution risks and implement controls to contain or abate pollution should it occur Consider the lifecycle environmental, social and economic costs of building, operating and maintaining the proposal Implement the proposal’s environmental goals by enabling specialists to identify the most cost-effective safeguards and management measures to respond to its predicted environmental impacts. As highlighted above, Roads and Maritime has committed to safeguards that would reduce the likelihood of routine pollution occurring during the proposal’s construction and operation to negligible levels. Roads and Maritime has also committed to safe working methods to reduce the likelihood of an accidental spillage or pollution event, whilst including further precaution by implementing management measures to contain or abate pollution in the exceptionally unlikely event that it should occur. Consequently, the proposal has adopted the polluter-pays principle. Roads and Maritime has also committed to the purchase of recycled materials and materials with low-embodied energies where reasonable and feasible (refer to section 6.13.3). These provisions serve to consider the lifecycle demand on natural resources and their conservation. It has also committed to sourcing the materials from local markets, including primary materials wherever possible. Finally, all materials, construction staff and equipment, and waste would be obtained and disposed of as close to the proposal footprint as possible (termed the ‘proximity principle’). This would reduce the proposal’s wider secondary, indirect and lifecycle impacts. Finally, Roads and Maritime has developed environmental assessment guidance to allow external parties to prepare its environmental assessment documentation. These external parties comprise specialists who are competent in environmental impact assessment and are experienced in identifying cost-effective safeguards based on a hierarchy of avoidance over mitigation. In addition, Roads and Maritime has its own in-house team of environmental specialists who review all environmental assessments to ensure the safeguards are cost-effective and achieve the proposal’s environmental goals and Roads and Maritime’s organisational environmental goals. 8.4 Conclusion The proposal is subject to assessment under part 5 of the EP&A Act. The REF has examined and taken into account to the fullest extent possible all matters affecting or likely to affect the environment by reason of the proposed activity. A number of potential environmental impacts have been avoided or reduced during the options assessment and the development of the concept design. The proposal as described in the REF best meets the project objectives, but would still require traffic management controls to be implemented during construction leading to minor temporary traffic delays and temporary on-street and off-street access restrictions. It would also have some minor temporary amenity impacts due to noise emissions, dust generation and effects on the streetscape character of each work site. Sydney City Centre Capacity Improvement 468 Review of Environmental Factors
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Sydney City Centre Capacity Improve
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Executive summary The proposal Road
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the proposed Sydney City Centre Cyc
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The REF concludes that the proposal
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Effect Affected factors/receivers L
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Effect Temporary light spill impact
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maintenance of traffic flows in the
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6.7 Water quality and hydrology ...
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In doing so, the REF helps fulfil t
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2 Need and options considered This
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NSW Long Term Transport Master Plan
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2.2 Existing road and public transp
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Road Sussex Street between King Str
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Road Precinct 4: college Wentworth
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Bus stop hubs located at Circular Q
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Amenity All three options reallocat
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Amenity At present, buses cannot re
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Amenity Kerbside use Business impac
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Amenity Kerbside use Business impac
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Typical improvement (with example)
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Table 3-10 Plant and equipment - in
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Level of Service (LoS) Maximum queu
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Tree characteristics The city centr
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