Woden 9 scales down

The minority of NIMBYs have won once again. If you can’t build a tall building in a town centre where can you build one?? And yes, goggles13, instead of increasing residential in the town centre to reduce the need for cars, they’re building a carpark… So much for supporting public transport!

common sense has prevailed, but it seems odd that the Govt would support a car parking lobby when they are trying to push for more use of public transport.

now to hurry up and redevelop/demolish the Alexander and Albemarle buildings – bloody horrible eyesores

850 spaces @ $10/day = a reasonable return for a minimal service structure.
If we say each space is occupied for 200 days a year, $1.7M is the return. Move the price up to $12/day, and you’re looking at $2.04M pa.

Depends on how you look at it. People obviously like living in these places. I think sometimes people get over sensitive to something that will have a minimum impact on their life and they probably should go travel to a poorer country and see what issues they have to deal with there. It seems in this town as soon as something tall gets proposed it is instantly a problem.

This sounds like a welcome outbreak of common sense. Aside from taking some note of community concerns, perhaps a more realistic approach has been taken to assessing the likely demand for such dwellings – particularly with a change of federal government now looking somewhat more likely than not.