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conduct a thorough inventory of the natural and social attributes of
the esplanade reserve as part of a Land Management Plan that
would describe community values and provide a framework for future
policies. In an exhaustive process there were several public
consultations. During these discussions, the term ‘Emerald Fringe’
came into common use to meld the physical attributes of the reserve
and the aspirations of the community as a whole. Because ‘Emerald
Fringe’ had caught the imagination of the islanders as a portmanteau
term for their sense that there should be no alienation of the reserve
for any single interest group, the term was formally adopted in the
Land Management Plan, where the Emerald Fringe is defined as: A
vegetated area between the private residential areas of the island
and the water’s edge of Moreton Bay, around the circumference of
the island. This also includes the portions of the Golf Course where
vegetation has been retained, including the wetlands within that
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area. (see Attachment 4).

As an adjunct to the preparation of the Land Management Plan, the
consultants were asked to recommend a site for a facility for the
Coochiemudlo Island Surf Lifesavers Club. At the time, there was
intense public debate on an application by the Lifesavers to erect a
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building within the Emerald Fringe, close to the barge ramp.
Community determination to protect the Emerald Fringe from
development led to the abandonment of this proposal and the
erection of the facility in the Island’s settled zone (See attachment

40 Friend and Associates et al, Coochiemudlo Island Land Management Plan,
p.15.
41 The 2004 Coochiemudlo Land Management Plan recommended that the
Lifesavers building not be located on the Foreshore. See Appendix Seven.