Recommendations - City of West Torrens - SA.Gov.au

‘ Increasingly, higher density
housing is becoming the
norm in residential areas.
As a consequence, parking
demand may flow onto the
road system, resulting in
increasing competition for
limited road space.’
The land use changes in the City is a
significant source of increasing parking
demands.
the same allotment. As a consequence,
the parking demand generated by the
same allotment would be more than
doubled. If adequate off-street parking
is not provided, the parking demand
would flow onto the road system
resulting in increasing competition for
the limited road space.
The standard 2-vehicle household
also appears to be changing. As adult
children remain longer in the household,
parking demand also increases per
household if the adult children own cars.
expected to generate a parent pick up
demand of 1 space per 6 students, ie
100 spaces.
Such a high parking demand of very
short duration is difficult to manage,
particularly with limited road space for
on-street parking. In most instances,
this short term parking demand is
accommodated by the road system.
The City has to, therefore, design
parking controls, manage and enforce
these controls to maximise the parking
availability for the school.
For land uses that have been in
existence for many years, for example
in the District Centre in Torrensville,
the provision of off-street parking
has in many instances not been
a requirement in the past. As a
consequence, the increase in business
associated with these premises has
resulted in increasing parking demands
on the road network.
An example is an existing restaurant
with no off-street parking. If there is
no change of use proposed, the City
has no enforcement power to require
an existing restaurant to provide
off-street parking. Therefore, as the
restaurant becomes popular, customer
parking generated would have to rely
solely on on-street parking.
Other “trends” are summarised below.
Residential land uses
Increasingly, higher density is becoming
the “norm” in residential areas. Where
previously only one property was
located in a relatively large allotment,
sub-division or development results in
two or sometimes three dwellings on
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Retail land uses
With the extension of trading hours
for retail and 7-day trading now
permitted, the peak parking of these
users have reduced. In the past, most
councils apply a parking rate of 7
spaces per 100m2 to retail floor space.
In recent years, this has reduced to 5.5
spaces per 100m2.
In the case of the Torrensville District
Centre, many of the shops and
supermarkets have not provided
adequate off-street parking and
therefore on-street parking is very
high in the side streets adjacent to
this centre. As a result, residents are
affected.
Monitoring of the parking conditions
in these situations would assist in
quantifying the increase in parking
demand associated with retail land
uses.
Schools
School parking is characterised by very
high peaks during the starting and
dismissal periods. As a rule of thumb, a
600-student primary school would be
Part 3 - Parking Management | Overview of Future Parking Characteristics
Many private schools have provision
for off-street parking for staff and
student parking, bus parking and also
some parent parking.
For public schools, it has been the
policy of the State Government to
not provide off-street parking for
parents, due to liability concerns. As a
consequence, total reliance on onstreet
parking is necessary.
Any proposed expansion of existing
schools should therefore be assessed
very carefully to ensure that adequate
parking is provided off-street, or that the
impact of on-street parking is not overly
detrimental on adjacent land uses.
Other specific land uses
There are a number of “non-standard”
land uses that are large parking
generators. Examples include hospitals
and call centres.
For instance, Ashford Hospital
generates high staff parking demands,
particularly during shift overlaps.
As many staff do not wish to pay
for parking in the off-street car park