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3.3 PUBLIC CAR PARKING & UNDERGROUNDING
OF AT-GRADE CAR PARKING
Council has a number of public car parks in the town centres, with most
spaces typically having 2 hour parking restrictions to ensure turnover
while providing shopper convenience. Shorter term parking (1/2 or 1
hour) is usually located on the kerbside, and is intended for much shorter
stay and quick access. Other privately owned but publicly available
parking (such as the in Gordon Centre or St Ives Shopping Village) have
notional time limits, including 3 hour limits.
Figure 3.3-1:
Typical street parking sign.
Most Council car parks exist due to the surrounding older type strip
shops/offices in the town centres generally not being able to provide
parking on-site to service their needs and those of their customers.
However, as redevelopment of the town centres occurs, new on-site
parking would need to be provided to cater for the parking needs of
the development. As this on-site provision increases, the role and
importance of large at-grade Council car parks would be slowly
diminished. New on-site parking would also help to address longer term
(employee) parking which is currently transferred to surrounding roads
and competes directly with commuters, residents and other longer stay
users.
In 2006, Council resolved to ensure there is no loss of publicly available
car parking in the town centres. It follows that if (subject to the outcomes
of the reclassification of Council lands) Council car park sites were to be
redeveloped, the existing publicly available car parking would have to be
replaced, probably by undergrounding. However, as indicated in the Arup
background study, the parking needs of the town centres would be met
if redeveloped sites provided for their own parking needs on-site, which
could gradually diminish the long term need for Council car park sites.
There is therefore scope to reduce the quantity of car parking needed
to be undergrounded. It is likely that the cost to underground public car
parks where mixed use or other development is proposed above (such
as the Wade Lane car park) would be considered through a planning
agreement with a developer and as a result, these projects were not
included in the Ku-ring-gai Town Centres Development Contribution Plan.
For shorter stays, it is envisaged that the bulk of on-street parking would
be retained, with new roads and public domain improvements offering
the opportunity to increase on-street parking. Depending on demand,
it may be necessary to extend the times that period parking operates
in key streets (and car parks) on weekends (eg Village Green Parade,
Grandview Street, St Johns Avenue, Rohini Street, Lindfield Avenue, Hill
Street) to ensure adequate turnover on Saturdays and Sundays.
New roads are appropriate projects for development contributions due
to the benefits to vehicle access and circulation, as well as pedestrian/
bicycle permeability and the additional on-street public parking they
provide (where appropriate). Some roads are critical to the traffic
improvements being proposed in various town centres. These have been
identified in the Ku-ring-gai Town Centres Development Contribution
Plan.
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Ku-ring-gai Town Centres Parking Management Plan 2010