St Kilda Harbour Concept Plan - Parks Victoria

Primary Benefits of the Plan:1. Maintains important water / harbour vistas from the land and promotes StKilda’s connection to the water.2. Maintains important view lines within and around the harbour.3. Creates a public inner harbour ‘events’ space / water activities space.4. Provides a continuous timber boardwalk around the inner harbour eventspace, with tiered seating and low level fishing / boating platforms. Thisincludes access along the southern edge of the boat repair yard allowingpublic viewing of boat yard and inner harbour activities.5. Provides for ferry ticketing booth, kiosk, ferry terminal and public toiletslocated in a new operations building, a component of the boat repair &storage yard.6. Provides for an observation deck on the roof of the operations building.7. Provides for ferry, water taxi and tourism charter boat berthing and publicberthing on both sides of the inner harbour, including a ferry turning basin.8. Minimizes the amount of dredging required within the harbour, therebyminimizing disruption to existing sea grass beds (no net loss to bemanaged).9. Creates a new RMYS public forecourt / plaza (through the removal of theexisting boat repair yard and relocation of the proposed Junior Academyfacility to the proposed boat repair & storage yard in the harbour).10. Upgrades the adjacent beach for ‘events’.11. Maintains kite surfing launch area.12. Protects the integrity of the historic bluestone sea wall along Pier Road.13. Respects the legacy of the Catani Gardens and rock walling / seatingnooks by limiting car access along Pier Road.14. Converts Pier Road in front of RMYS to a new promenade and publicopen space.15. Improves the connection to the foreshore promenade, currently underconstruction.16. Extends the new St Kilda Pier back to Jacka Boulevard and upgrades thePier entry.17. Maintains full public pedestrian access to the water’s edge.28