Page 5880 - Week 18 - Wednesday, 11 December 1991
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from a position he championed for city developments that affected his own residence in Reid. Mr Speaker, we have pressed always for traffic management studies. We have been very consistent about that matter from about 1987 onwards.
I take you now to the parking matters. I do ask members to listen because we will put you on notice as to a matter that will probably result in this development falling over in a court of law anyway. This is the position. The theatre park, which will be built over, has 23 short-stay parks. The existing car park, which is proposed to be redeveloped to two-storeys, has 106. So, there is a total of 129 car parks affected. The new two-storey car park proposed will have 186 places. That leaves a net increase of 57. Mr Wood knows that we all concede that, on that computation. It is 56, 57, 58.
Mr Wood: I noted that. About 60.
MR COLLAERY: The net increase is about 60. If one examines the draft variation to the plan, one sees that these matters have to be attended to. Firstly, Bougainville Street, on one side of the proposed car parking structure, is a narrow street, as is Franklin Street on the cathedral side, as is the parking station block, except where the Government has recently moved to take out some car parking spaces - 10, in fact. They are too narrow to allow parking on either side. "No parking" has gone up on one side, but there is still an egress traffic problem.
The fact is that the computation does not include the following factors which we have advice on. The theatre complex as planned, with a GFA, gross floor area, allows a computation to be made that planners use. The computation means that there will be 38 extra staff working in the cinema complex, with its retail components and the rest. Of that, the computation allows for up to 20 cars being brought into Manuka by those workers, assuming that those workers are recruited from persons who do not already work in the Manuka area. So, that is 20 cars. We are using established parameters.
It is clear to all of the advisers we have that there will have to be a removal of 12 car parks in the Furneaux Street to Bougainville Street section because of egress problems from the car park. We all know that as you come out of the present car park, and that exit will remain, there are cars parked directly opposite outside the village. So, it is minus six parks there; and minus 12 in Bougainville Street.
Of course, traffic will not go down around to Canberra Avenue, on the advice we have, and there will be 36 car parks lost behind the car parking station, where the residences exist and where people are already pressing for the removal of parking outside their front doors and where the road is dangerously narrow. So, the fact is that there
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