Information Request Response Lot 22 · MCU22/0038

  ii.    “Additionally, the location of the subject site within the broader Noosa Business Centre means
         that a significant portion of development-generated trips are likely to be linked with other uses,
         therefore reducing parking demand and spreading it across the existing parking areas proximate
         to the subject site.”


In relation to the two grounds identified in the SLR memo:


  i.     It is understood that the proponent is not proposing to deliver the multi-modal transport hub.
  ii.    While it is agreed that there will be linked trips with other uses at the Noosa Business Centre, all
         that means is that the overall traffic generation rate of the centre on a GFA basis reduces as the
         size of the centre increases, it does not mean that parking demands associated with the proposal
         will reduce. It simply means that some customers will park for longer in the same parking space
         while they undertake other activities at the Centre. The customers and staff of the proposed
         development will still generate the same parking demands.


INFORMATION REQUIRED


Provide parking provisions consistent with planning scheme requirements.


Our Response

SLR have prepared an attached letter responding to this specific RFI item, refer Appendix C, with the
relevant commentary extracted below.


        To inform NSC’s assessment of the application, the following clarifications are provided:


            ·   Further correspondence with Council’s strategic planning team has confirmed (since the
                drafting of this IR) that the new parking rates, as assessed within the SLR Traffic Impact
                Statement under ‘Amended Structure Plan Rates’, are proposed to be adopted by Council
                in the Planning Scheme amendment.
            ·   The provision of 99 parking spaces as per the proposed development plan will be sufficient
                to accommodate peak parking demands in the context of future planning.


In addition to the proposed parking rates being supported by Council’s own forward planning, SLR have
also provided a first principles assessment and justification for the parking to be provided in the
proposed medical development. In SLR’s opinion;




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