agenda - City of Stirling

AGENDA OF THE ORDINARY MEETING OF COUNCIL
13 NOVEMBER 2012
b. The parking facilities serving the proposed uses will be located on the one lot, or if
located on a separate lot, the parking arrangements are permanent (e.g. through an
easement, amalgamation, legal agreement, restrictive covenant or any other formal
arrangement acceptable to Council);
c. Parking demand both in the immediate and long term can be satisfied; and
d. No substantial conflict will exist in the peak hours of operation of the uses for which the
reciprocal parking arrangements are proposed."
Variations to the City’s Parking and Access Policy need to be considered against the
objectives of the policy. These are:-
To facilitate the development of adequate parking facilities;
To ensure safe, convenient and efficient access for pedestrians, cyclists and motorists;
To ensure that a major parking problem is unlikely to occur;
To ensure that car parking does not have a detrimental impact on the character and
amenity of a residential area; and
To ensure than an oversupply of parking does not occur that discourages alternative
forms of transport and is detrimental to urban design and Centre character.
Local Planning Policy 6.1 - Advertising Signs
Under LPS3, the objectives of the Advertising Signs Policy are:-
To ensure that the display of advertisements on private sites does not adversely
impact on the amenity of surrounding land;
To avoid a proliferation of signs on individual sites and buildings;
To improve the streetscape of major roads;
Encourage the rationalisation of advertising signs on individual premises;
Encourage the incorporation of advertising signs into the design consideration of
buildings;
To ensure that signs are not discriminatory or offensive; and
To ensure that signs only relate to services and products on the site.
Specifically, the subject sign is considered a wall sign and is defined as follows:-
“Sign which is affixed to the external part of a wall of the building but does not project more
than 300mm from the wall and no part of which is above the lowest point of the eaves or
ceiling of the building”.
Background
A development application for a Change of Use from Office (Real Estate) to Personal Care
Services (Massage Therapy) was received by the City on 5 September 2012 (DA12/2051
refers).
The existing site comprises of a shopping centre, a drive through fast food outlet, a drive
through coffee outlet and a tavern. There have been a number of development applications
approved for the subject property, both by Council and under delegated authority. These
have resulted in the original car parking requirement for 500 car bays to be provided on site
being reduced to the current approved level of 472 car parking bays.
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