Page 3426 - Week 08 - Wednesday, 17 August 2011
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If supply shortfalls develop, an option is to require developers to provide more than the minimum replacement parking to ensure a reasonable degree of accessibility to the city. Additionally, the price at which parking fees will be set will continue to rise to reflect the resource costs to the community of maintaining surface car parks and to encourage the private sector to incorporate publicly available multilevel car parks in integrated developments. If the price of parking at government sites is lower than the financially viable limit, the private sector will not build multilevel car parks. Another option is to provide temporary on-site car parks. Around 600 temporary parking spaces have already been provided in the area south of the Acton ferry terminal, incorporating the futsal slab.
Encouraging lessees with spare car parking capacity on existing sites in the city environs may also offer possibilities for provision of pay parking areas to support city parking demand. Parking demand in Woden town centre is at a very high level. There are a number of options available to meet parking requirements to serve Woden town centre. Belconnen, Tuggeranong and Gungahlin town centres have sufficient parking capacity to meet current and projected parking demand.
Parking is a major consideration when the government prepares master plans in consultation with local communities. The key planning objectives for transport in the master planning process include managing parking demand, addressing local traffic areas and improving all forms of access to and from each master plan location, including public transport, cycling and walking.
The master plan process also includes analysis of traffic and transport requirements to determine how much parking is appropriate to support local and group centres, where it should be located and how it should be managed, both now and as the centre develops or redevelops in line with this new master plan. For example, the current Erindale master plan process has responded to community input highlighting parking demand issues with the current parking structures.
In the main, redevelopments identified through master planning processes provide the best opportunities to improve any parking demand issues in our centres. Through the master planning processes, sites for structured car parks or basement parking can be identified and, if there is scope, improved parking arrangements can be included in the development conditions for new land releases.
In this way, the master planning process allows for a more integrated and consistent approach to managing parking demand in centres and obtaining the best value for the territory’s money to support local centres. Improved parking can be delivered quickly and cost effectively for the community. Master plans also identity the opportunities for car parks to provide other amenities for cyclists and for public transport, like park and ride facilities.
Parking should not be considered in isolation from the remainder of the transport system or from a sensible, considered land use planning approach to address parking demand at the lowest cost to the Canberra community.
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