4HRP3983.L01.004 - Final Application

6 November 2017




Parking Provision
Existing Centre
In order to assess the existing Noosa Civic Shopping Centre parking demand, parking survey data used for a
previous traffic study at the centre was utilised. A car parking survey was undertaken by TTM on Thursday 14
February and Saturday 16 February in 2013. The existing car parking demand rates were calculated based
on the car parking occupancy obtained by the survey and the occupied gross lettable area (GLA) of the existing
Noosa Civic at the time of survey. Table 8 summarises the findings of the surveys.
Cardno investigated annual daily door count data from the centre to identify the 90th percentile busiest shopping
day of the year. The 90th percentile day is chosen as the design parameter for parking demand. This
assessment approach is a standard traffic engineering approach which accounts for all but the busiest time
periods, generally relating to the Christmas and Easter holiday trading periods. Designing for these
occurrences would mean a significant over supply the rest of the year.
For the retail component of the development, the 90th percentile car parking demand based on an annualised
profile was then determined from the 2013 annual pedestrian door count data combined with the car parking
rates determined from the TTM surveys.

Table 8           TTM Car Parking Survey Findings
                                                                    90th%ile    90th%ile
                                             Thursday   Saturday                              Surplus Parking
                                  Provided                         Thursday     Saturday
                                              Survey     Survey                                   Spaces
                      Occupied                                     (spaces)     (spaces)
   Land Use
                        GLA                   Peak       Peak      Increase     Increase
                                    Total
                                             Demand     Demand      Factor       Factor      Thursday   Saturday
                                   Spaces
                                             Spaces     Spaces       (1.18)       (1.05)

      Retail             18,926    1,008       721        753        851           791         157         218
  Commercial
                         10,210     406        241        146        284           153         122         253
  +Showroom
      Total              29,136    1,414       962        899       1136*          944         278         470
*Number rounded up for parking space

The estimated 90th percentile parking demand for the centre is as follows:
           > Thursday: 1,136 spaces
           > Saturday: 944 spaces
Stage 1 approval of the centre required 1,413 car parks (Condition 152). The existing car parking supply
available at the Noosa Civic Shopping Centre is 1,414 spaces. This is in excess of the conditioned approval.
Similarly, for the traffic generation, a daily parking profile was generated from the Google Analytics data for
the parking demand for the centre, as outlined in Table 9.




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