Onkaparinga Mayor Lorraine Rosenberg calls on Federal Election candidates to pledge funds towards a Port Stanvac masterplan Onkaparinga Mayor Lorraine Rosenberg is calling on Federal Election candidates to pledge funds towards developing at Port Stanvac masterplan. FEDERAL funding is needed to help develop a masterplan for Port Stanvac's future, according to Onkaparinga Mayor Lorraine Rosenberg. The council is hoping federal election candidates will pledge to allocate funds for a masterplan, which is expected to cost about $400,000, in the lead-up to the September 7 polls. Ms Rosenberg said the project at the former oil ­refinery site should be jointly funded by the federal and state governments. "I think it's a site that needs to have major economic development drivers and would need to be both federally and state funded," she said. Because it's such a large site, over 200ha, if it was just left to local and state government, it would not reach the potential that it could. Messenger is mapping priority community projects which need federal funding. How to use this map Click the icons below to see projects for your area Click on links to see previous stories on these issues Ms Rosenberg said the council wanted the site to become a future employment hub for the area. "We would want to try to attract clean industry and some niche markets that can make use of the fact that there is desal water nearby," she said. The council tabled a report investigating the feasibility of building a marina at the site last year which found it was likely to need a housing or retail development attached to make it commercially viable. It also noted the site was only being remediated to ­industrial standards. In August last year, Exxon Mobil offered the Port Stanvac jetty to the council. But at the time, Ms Rosenberg told the Southern Times Messenger a masterplan for the site needed to first be driven by the State Government.