minutes - City of Stirling

MINUTES OF THE ORDINARY MEETING OF COUNCIL
18 SEPTEMBER 2012
The City initially advised Uloth and Associates that the Dan Murphy’s development
would require 52 additional parking spaces. Based on this requirement:-
A total of 1,920 parking spaces (1,868+52) would be required to accommodate
both the existing shopping centre parking demand coupled with the proposed
Dan Murphy’s demand.
With a proposed overall parking supply of 2,173 spaces, there would be an
oversupply of 253 spaces (2,173-1,920) following the proposed development and
therefore the overall centre would provide more than enough parking to
accommodate the Dan Murphy’s development.
Subsequently, following lodgement and assessment of the application, the City’s
technical officers established that the total number of bays proposed onsite is 2,180
and that the Dan Murphy’s store would require an additional 55 bays. Whilst a minor
discrepancy exists between the final parking assessment from the City and the original
parking assessment report, the City’s technical officers ultimately concurred that on
site parking provision was likely to be in excess of current and future requirements
under either scenario and that on this basis no contingency arrangements were
necessary.
Within this context, the provision of a contingency parking plan is considered
unnecessary and unduly onerous, given that there is sufficient parking on site to
service both the existing and proposed use.
Historical Car Parking Contingency Arrangements
By way of relevant background to the matter, a historical car parking contingency plan
for the subject site was extinguished by Council as a result of a determination at its
meeting on 16 March 2010.
The historical contingency plan limited the number of parking bays to 223 and was
required to be implemented by Council upon receipt of two or more written complaints
regarding parking issues from owners and occupiers within the Mirrabooka Regional
Centre.
The requirement for a parking contingency plan arose as a result of a condition of
development approval for an extension to the Mirrabooka Square Shopping Centre in
April 1998. The extension to the centre provided an additional 4,987m 2 of floor space,
bringing the total to 41,157m 2 GLA, with 2,040 car parking bays being provided.
A subsequent parking strategy for the Mirrabooka Regional Centre Improvement
Strategy, prepared for the City by TPG in 2006 concluded that:-
Parking at the Regional Centre was generally underutilised, with an overall
parking utilisation across all precincts of 60%.
Parking within the Mirrabooka Square Shopping Centre was underutilised, with a
parking utilisation of 82%.
The parking strategy further reinforced the argument that the contingency plan be
extinguished. The Officer’s report to Council concluded that the extinguishment of the
Mirrabooka Square Shopping Centre parking contingency plan would have little impact
and that future development of the shopping centre would need to comply with current
parking standards with any proposed parking shortfalls to be considered on their
merits.
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