2020-04-30 Ordinary Meeting Agenda

ORDINARY MEETING AGENDA                                                                  30 APRIL 2020


 Criteria                  Planning Scheme                Proposal                       Complies
 Bicycle Spaces            16 bicycle spaces              15 bicycle spaces (racks)      X
 End of Trip Facilities*
                       1 locker per 2 bicycle spaces 8 locker/s (minimum)                
 *(required only where and;
 5 + spaces are 1 shower cubicle with 2 shower cubicles                                  
 required)             ancillary change room per
                       10 bicycle spaces


Carparking
As demonstrated in the table above, the proposal does not comply with the scheme’s minimum car
parking requirements for a gym.
Based on the proposed total use of the area of the gym of 705m2, the proposed gym requires 36 car
parking spaces to be provided on site. The proposal includes the equivalent of 19 on site car parking
spaces, therefore falling short of the required car parking by 17 spaces.
To support their application, the applicant provided survey data from the existing Noosa Civic
Anytime Fitness gym indicating no more than 20 people enter the gym within any given hour time
slot and therefore arguing the proposed site provides sufficient car parking for the peak demand of
the existing business. Furthermore, the applicant submits that the relatively low population growth of
the Noosa Shire will not generate any further significant demand for the subject gym into the future.
Council’s consulting traffic engineer advises a survey of the existing gym is not a reasonable
indicator of the likely parking demand for the proposed gym as the new gym has a gross floor area
of 752m2 more than double the area of their existing Noosa Civic tenancy of 365m 2. Therefore to
address the proposed gym’s likely parking demand, the applicant was requested to provide parking
surveys from two existing gyms of similar floor area and mode of operation, in order to demonstrate
the proposed on site car parking arrangement is suitable for the likely demand of the proposed gym.
The surveyed gyms were not required to be located in the local area as it is considered the supply
and demand for gyms self regulates in each region. The applicant did not provide any further survey
material to support their proposal.
However, the applicant instead suggested that the total use area of the proposed gym is only
523.5m2, based on individual equipment areas and therefore requires less car parking pursuant to
the planning scheme’s car parking rate for gyms. Additionally, the applicant proposes that Members
are able to book their workout slot online suggesting the maximum number of gym users can be
limited and conditioned accordingly, as follows:
      Utilising Councils traffic consultant’s methodology of 0.8 the maximum number of persons on
      site, being either staff / customers would be 26.5 persons, refer table below.
       Qty of Spaces           Proposed                              Qty of Patrons
       Car park                17 spaces                             17 / 0.8 = 21.25 persons
       Motorcycle / Scooter    4 spaces (1 equivalent car space)     4 x spaces = 4 persons
       PWD                     1 space                               1 / 0.8 = 1.25 persons
       Total                   18 car spaces / 4 scooter spaces      26.5 persons
       On Street               2 spaces                              2 / 0.8 = 2.5 persons
       Total                   20car spaces / 4 scooter spaces       29 persons
       *Note- it is reasonable that rather than the scooter spaces being combined and 4 scooter
       spaces being counted as 1 car space that each scooter space is allocated as a person able
       to attend the gym. Previous modal studies of existing gyms has provided evidence that the
       number of persons utilising scooter / motorcycle is 11% of all patronage.

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