minutes - City of Stirling

MINUTES OF THE ORDINARY MEETING OF COUNCIL
18 SEPTEMBER 2012
In view of the above, whilst the parking ratio has altered from the ratio previously approved
by Council the application still complies with the City’s minimum parking requirements as
outlined in TPS38. Notwithstanding the minimum parking requirements of TPS38, to address
the variation to the previously agreed parking ratio, the applicant engaged the engineering
consultancy Cardno to provide a parking study on the subject site. The Executive Summary
of this report is as follows:-
"Cardno has been engaged by Westfield Limited to conduct a parking assessment for
the Westfield Innaloo shopping centre in order to ascertain the sufficiency of the
existing parking quantum.
This assessment was undertaken based on peak parking demands, determined from
parking occupancy survey data collected at the site. Thursday was found (by
patronage counts) to represent the busiest trading day of the week, so surveys were
undertaken for a nominal Thursday within the assessment period.
A number of adjustment factors were applied to the observed peak parking demand in
order to account for seasonal variation, parking efficient and peak spreading during the
busiest retail trading days of the year. Application of these derived factors to the
observed parking demand allowed the required parking supply to be determined.
Based on this information, the parking supply required to cater for the design day
parking demand was determined to be 1,762 bays. As the parking supply at Westfield
Innaloo consists of 1,851 bays, a surplus of 89 bays currently exists at the site for the
designated design day.
While the impact of Sunday trading and land-use changes were not incorporated into
this analysis, it is understood that these changes would result in a lower parking
demand."
The full report is Attachment 1.
Engineering Design Business Unit Comments
The development application was referred to the City’s Traffic Design Engineer, for a review
of the proposed revised car park layout as well as the contents of the parking study by
Cardno in support of the parking provision.
In relation to the revised car parking layout, the following comments were made:-
"The car wash facility has been completely separated from the adjacent car spaces
and circulating aisle, which effectively eliminates the potential conflict between car
wash staff and circulating vehicles, and results in little to no general pedestrian traffic
through the car wash facility. Also, the increased number of storage bays within the car
wash facility would allow drop off, washing, drying and pick up of vehicles to be
undertaken separately."
Based on the amended plan, it is considered that the proposed car wash facility can be
supported by Engineering Design.
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