MCU14/0106 Appendix D - Traffic Impact Assessment

                                                                                                      Traffic Impact Assessment
                                                                                                         Noosa Civic Expansion




7              Parking
7.1      Existing Car Parking Operation
The current Noosa Plan has a required parking rate for retail uses of 1 space per 20sq.m of use area (up to
100sq.m) plus 1 space per 15sq.m of use area (beyond 100sq.m). This represents a rate of approximately
6.66 spaces per 100sq.m for a retail centre size of 20,000sq.m use area. Based on previous experience, the
Noosa Plan rate is considered excessive, hence a more appropriate rate has been investigated.
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 7-1 summarises the findings of the surveys.

Table 7-1      TTM Car Parking Survey Findings
                               Provided    Thurs Survey         Thurs. Parking Rate      Sat Survey        Sat Parking Rate
                Occupied
Land Use                         Total                          ...spaces      …sq.m                      ...spaces       …sq.m
                  GLA                      Total Spaces                                 Total Spaces
                                Spaces                              per         GLA                           per          GLA
Retail            18,926        1,008           721                3.8          100         753              4.0           100
Showroom          6,089          196                69             1.0          72           85              1.0           72
Commercial        4,121          210            172                1.0          68           61              1.0           68
Total             29,136        1,414           962                 -            -          899               -              -

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. Based on the surveyed demand of the existing Noosa Civic, and
survey data of other centres, the Noosa Plan rate is considered to be excessive and inappropriate. For the
showroom and commercial components of the development, the car parking rates within the Noosa Plan are
used, therefore the adopted rates for the Noosa Civic development are stated in Table 7-2.

Table 7-2      Adopted Car Parking Demand Rates
Land Use                                                            90th%ile Car Parking Demand Rate
Retail (as per surveyed demand)                              4.5 spaces                           per 100 sq.m GLA
Showroom (as per Noosa Plan)                                 1.0 space                            per 50 sq.m GLA
Commercial (as per Noosa Plan)                               1.0 space                            per 20 sq.m GLA

The car parking requirement for the existing Noosa Civic was determined using the adopted car parking
rates. Table 7-3 summarises the number of car parking spaces required at the existing Noosa Civic against
the actual number of car parking spaces supplied. It shows that the actual supply of car parking spaces
provided is in excess of the required car parking by 187 spaces.

Table 7-3      Existing Car Parking Supply
                  Gross Lettable                         Parking Rate                   Calculated                Provided
Land Use
                   Area (GLA)             ...spaces per           …sq.m GLA            Total Spaces          Total Spaces
Retail                 18,585                  4.5                       100               836                     1,008
Showroom               7,056                   1.0                        50               141                      196
Commercial             5,000                   1.0                        20               250                      210
Total                  30,641                   -                         -               1,227                    1,414




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