{"id":331041,"date":"2023-04-18T15:30:32","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T05:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=331041"},"modified":"2023-04-18T16:03:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T06:03:59","slug":"trc-rejigs-rating-categories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2023\/04\/18\/trc-rejigs-rating-categories\/","title":{"rendered":"TRC Rejigs Rating Categories"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_67678\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67678\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140515-geoff-mcdonald-200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-67678\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140515-geoff-mcdonald-200.jpg\" alt=\"Cr Geoff McDonald\" width=\"200\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140515-geoff-mcdonald-200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140515-geoff-mcdonald-200-188x300.jpg 188w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67678\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deputy Mayor Cr Geoff McDonald<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>April 18, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Toowoomba Regional Council has adopted a number of recommendations from an external review into its rating categories.<\/p>\n<p>Cr Geoff McDonald said new categories being introduced from July 1 will ensure that numerous land uses, including large retail, resources and energy, high-intensity rural, non-strata flats and lifestyle villages were categorised in a manner that better reflected the impact that have on Council\u2019s network.<\/p>\n<p>The changes will be staged over several financial years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cr McDonald said the rating review was an important element in ensuring Council\u2019s rating framework represented &#8220;best practice&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first general rating review undertaken by TRC and the recommendations adopted by Council are about enhancing equity and fairness across the very diverse land uses throughout the Toowoomba Region,\u201d Cr McDonald said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe external review into Council\u2019s rating categories showed that our current rating framework was generally very sound but that there were opportunities to enhance equity and align some categories with best practice across local government by benchmarking TRC with other similar Queensland councils.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"mod-custom641\" class=\"mod-custom custom\">\n<div id=\"mc_embed_signup\">\n<form id=\"mc-embedded-subscribe-form\" class=\"validate\" action=\"https:\/\/qld.us2.list-manage.com\/subscribe\/post?u=19ca0003b5debe51dc047584b&amp;id=3deed08a9b\" method=\"post\" name=\"mc-embedded-subscribe-form\" target=\"_blank\"><\/form>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toowoomba Regional Council has adopted a number of recommendations from an external review into its rating categories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":30521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[1131],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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