Katoomba Charrette Outcomes Report - Blue Mountains City Council

Katoomba Charrette Report & Town Centre Strategy
While the north and south parts of this design could be developed independently of each other,
this design offers the chance for a joint venture development of the whole project, with shared
parking. The Cultural/Visitors Centre might have its peak use during the afternoons, while the
cineplex’s peak parking demand for the same parking spaces would be in the evening.
Design Option ‘A’ for the Old TAFE site, which Keeps the Old TAFE Building
Apparently Inadequate Ca Parking Capacity
An apparent weakness of this scheme is that retaining the Old TAFE Building will limit car
parking capacity to only about half the anticipated parking capacity understood by the
Charrette Team to be needed to optimise the visitor parking to take advantage of the bus to
Echo Point during peak visitor days, and thereby to attract more visitors to the Town Centre.
10.1.5 Multi- Use Option ‘B’
This preliminary design features roughly the same Cultural/Visitors Centre as explained and
illustrated above in the perspective sketches, but this one has the Old TAFE Building removed,
in order to make more efficient use of the site, especially to gain more underground parking
capacity. The southern base of the development abuts and looks over Jane Young’s existing
Civic Video and Retrovision building, which is to be retained in this design (see Building Section
below).
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