Floriade/Acton Carpark

JC said :

P1 you will find the owners of the new buildings will have to provide parking equal to a percentage of the number of people who will work in the buildings. It is never 100%.

Pandy said :

My understanding that the lost carparks will have to be replaced on-site in addition to the car-parks that are required for any new office building.

I don’t know where you guys have gotten that impression, but it seems way off the mark. The recently completed DAFF building (wasn’t it built on a public car park?) has three levels of private underground parking – mostly reserved for SES – for eleven levels worth of staff. So I guess that percentage is pretty bloody low – probably around what, 2%!

And soon they’ll have even less parking with the one adjacent to the Police Station about to be gobbled up.

VicePope said :

To call it stupid is to be offensive to really stupid people. I prefer to think that ACT planning is done by a few drunken chimps hurling dung at a map.

Pool Room!!

Our new building went up about a year and a half ago. Its got 3 levels of its own parking. But its only for EL2s and up. Its not fair.

My understanding that the lost carparks will have to be replaced on-site in addition to the car-parks that are required for any new office building.

I can’t fathom why people agree to work in civic. The parking thing’s become very silly. In city west, the top floor “cheap” parking would fill up just after dawn. I can’t see teh point in it. Government really has to diversify office buildings, put them in uncongested areas, preferably where people live.

and how do you rate articles, or is that just restricted to moderators or something?

There always seems to be plenty of parking in the paid area near the futsal, or is that time restricted?

off topic, how do you bring up posts from a week or two ago that have fallen off the screen, can’t seem to work it out?

I spend a fair bit of time in the City West area. Carparks have been removed, and replaced by buildings with, generally, nowhere near enough parking for the people working/living in them. The big carpark south of the cop shop is next, with the new owner using it for slightly pricier parking, pending closing it down and putting up yet more buildings. The parks get full early, even with the overflow area by the lake. And this is the side of town without lots of buses.

To call it stupid is to be offensive to really stupid people. I prefer to think that ACT planning is done by a few drunken chimps hurling dung at a map.

P1 you will find the owners of the new buildings will have to provide parking equal to a percentage of the number of people who will work in the buildings. It is never 100%. But the other problem though is to build an underground car park you have to dig up the current one, so for a period of a few years you are down.

If you had a choice of sense, sence (sic), or cents, which would you go for?

ACT Government goes for cents everytime. Sense doesn’t come into the equation, excuse the pun.

wouldn’t it make more sence to build an underground one under one of those office developments in city west….

THIS was in the Canberra Times on the 25th February.

ABC news on Saturday morning (I think?) announced that it would be converted to paid parking shortly. Some months ago Hargreaves announced that there would be a carpark installed on the site temporarily as parking space on London Circuit has been sold to build on. At the time there was some nimby-noise about it being a blight on the lakeside.