Fitzharris seeks feedback on Phillip paid parking scheme

JC said :

Fluffy said :

CaptainSpiff said :

Mysteryman said :

Masquara said :

We don’t want it. It will kill struggling small businesses. It will deter people taking out membership at Elite Fitness and Flames Fitness in the middle of an obesity epidemic. It will stop the poor being able to buy clothing and other essentials from the Salvos Store and Vinnies. There’s your feedback.

Just like in Belconnen. Oh wait businesses are still open, people go to the gym, the world hasn’t come to an end and poor people can still go to the Salvo’s.

You’ve got to admit JC that Belconnen has had a lot more government money spent on it than Phillip. Land & Planning have also focussed on developing Belconnen through excellent master plans and given a lot more approvals to development to improve Belconnen than they have Phillip. I am all for pay parking in Phillip, but that has to be balanced with some more development to improve the area on the whole and give it some better areas that will encourage businesses to open bars, restaurants and cafes. What’s there at the moment is targeted to weekday workers in the area, not to attracting people from the wider areas of Canberra.

Belco also got the finest selection of public art.

I quite like the owl.

It’s one of many exactly the same in other cities in Australia.

Fluffy said :

CaptainSpiff said :

Mysteryman said :

Masquara said :

We don’t want it. It will kill struggling small businesses. It will deter people taking out membership at Elite Fitness and Flames Fitness in the middle of an obesity epidemic. It will stop the poor being able to buy clothing and other essentials from the Salvos Store and Vinnies. There’s your feedback.

Just like in Belconnen. Oh wait businesses are still open, people go to the gym, the world hasn’t come to an end and poor people can still go to the Salvo’s.

You’ve got to admit JC that Belconnen has had a lot more government money spent on it than Phillip. Land & Planning have also focussed on developing Belconnen through excellent master plans and given a lot more approvals to development to improve Belconnen than they have Phillip. I am all for pay parking in Phillip, but that has to be balanced with some more development to improve the area on the whole and give it some better areas that will encourage businesses to open bars, restaurants and cafes. What’s there at the moment is targeted to weekday workers in the area, not to attracting people from the wider areas of Canberra.

Belco also got the finest selection of public art.

I quite like the owl.

CaptainSpiff said :

Mysteryman said :

Masquara said :

We don’t want it. It will kill struggling small businesses. It will deter people taking out membership at Elite Fitness and Flames Fitness in the middle of an obesity epidemic. It will stop the poor being able to buy clothing and other essentials from the Salvos Store and Vinnies. There’s your feedback.

Just like in Belconnen. Oh wait businesses are still open, people go to the gym, the world hasn’t come to an end and poor people can still go to the Salvo’s.

You’ve got to admit JC that Belconnen has had a lot more government money spent on it than Phillip. Land & Planning have also focussed on developing Belconnen through excellent master plans and given a lot more approvals to development to improve Belconnen than they have Phillip. I am all for pay parking in Phillip, but that has to be balanced with some more development to improve the area on the whole and give it some better areas that will encourage businesses to open bars, restaurants and cafes. What’s there at the moment is targeted to weekday workers in the area, not to attracting people from the wider areas of Canberra.

Belco also got the finest selection of public art.

CaptainSpiff said :

Mysteryman said :

Masquara said :

We don’t want it. It will kill struggling small businesses. It will deter people taking out membership at Elite Fitness and Flames Fitness in the middle of an obesity epidemic. It will stop the poor being able to buy clothing and other essentials from the Salvos Store and Vinnies. There’s your feedback.

Just like in Belconnen. Oh wait businesses are still open, people go to the gym, the world hasn’t come to an end and poor people can still go to the Salvo’s.

You’ve got to admit JC that Belconnen has had a lot more government money spent on it than Phillip. Land & Planning have also focussed on developing Belconnen through excellent master plans and given a lot more approvals to development to improve Belconnen than they have Phillip. I am all for pay parking in Phillip, but that has to be balanced with some more development to improve the area on the whole and give it some better areas that will encourage businesses to open bars, restaurants and cafes. What’s there at the moment is targeted to weekday workers in the area, not to attracting people from the wider areas of Canberra.

In fairness yes Belco has had more money in recent years, though lets not forget Woden did get money before Belconnen. Re the points you make one core difference between Belconnen and Woden/Phillip, is Woden and Phillip are two separate areas separated by a 6 lane road. Belconnen isn’t constrained as much. Consequently the business mix in the industrial part of Belconnen is a little more balanced compared to Phillip.

That said the point of my post is Belconnen didn’t come to a grinding halt with mass shop closures with the introduction of paid parking. Said in another post I don’t think it should be in industrial areas, or maybe I should clarify I don’t think short term parking should be charged, but all day should be. Only reason all day should be is to discourage workers elsewhere taking those parks to avoid pay parking elsewhere. And certainly don’t think car repair businesses should be using government car parks to park customer cars between jobs, again as per discussion elsewhere.

Mysteryman said :

Masquara said :

We don’t want it. It will kill struggling small businesses. It will deter people taking out membership at Elite Fitness and Flames Fitness in the middle of an obesity epidemic. It will stop the poor being able to buy clothing and other essentials from the Salvos Store and Vinnies. There’s your feedback.

Just like in Belconnen. Oh wait businesses are still open, people go to the gym, the world hasn’t come to an end and poor people can still go to the Salvo’s.

You’ve got to admit JC that Belconnen has had a lot more government money spent on it than Phillip. Land & Planning have also focussed on developing Belconnen through excellent master plans and given a lot more approvals to development to improve Belconnen than they have Phillip. I am all for pay parking in Phillip, but that has to be balanced with some more development to improve the area on the whole and give it some better areas that will encourage businesses to open bars, restaurants and cafes. What’s there at the moment is targeted to weekday workers in the area, not to attracting people from the wider areas of Canberra.

They haven’t given a single good reason as to why they want to introduce paid parking.

Masquara said :

We don’t want it. It will kill struggling small businesses. It will deter people taking out membership at Elite Fitness and Flames Fitness in the middle of an obesity epidemic. It will stop the poor being able to buy clothing and other essentials from the Salvos Store and Vinnies. There’s your feedback.

Just like in Belconnen. Oh wait businesses are still open, people go to the gym, the world hasn’t come to an end and poor people can still go to the Salvo’s.

We don’t want it. It will kill struggling small businesses. It will deter people taking out membership at Elite Fitness and Flames Fitness in the middle of an obesity epidemic. It will stop the poor being able to buy clothing and other essentials from the Salvos Store and Vinnies. There’s your feedback.