2016-10-11 Planning & Environment Committee Agenda

TRANSPORT AND MOVEMENT
Car parking                                              Looking Forward                                             factors. Travel demand generated by increasing
                                                                                                                     numbers of visitors, particularly day trippers with
Public car parking is provided through a mix of                                                                      no accommodation “base” for their car, is one of the
on-street parking and dedicated public or customer       The planning and coordination of where people
                                                                                                                     challenges.




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car parks. Parking is typically at grade and open air.   live, work and interact with other activities is key to
Some customer parking is undercover.                     reducing transport distances and reduce car usage.          For traffic to ease, a decrease in private car use




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                                                         Put simply, people need to be connected to places           and increase in public and active transport use is
The availability of car parking is limited. Most         effectively and efficiently. By locating trip-generating    required. The Transport Plan will address matters
business centres and community facilities have                                                                       such as:




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                                                         activities near one another, people can avoid
sufficient car parking supply, however in key            unnecessary travel.
destinations like Hastings Street/Main Beach, Noosa                                                                    ways to improve the existing passenger
                                                                                                                      	




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National Park, Sunshine Beach and Peregian Beach         Noosa’s dispersed, low density settlement pattern,            transport network, including all public transport
demand often outweighs supply, particularly during       multiple employment nodes and free flowing road               modes, both existing and innovative alternatives.




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holidays and weekends. In peak periods, Lions Park       network are well established, and land available for          potential to provide park and ride facilities on
                                                                                                                      	
near Hastings Street is available for parking.           car parking, particularly near centres and attractions,       the edge of the urban area;
                                                         is finite. Increasing densities and focussing on ‘infill’
                                                         development around transport nodes and mixed                  opportunities to rationalise car parking and
                                                                                                                      	
Previous integrated transport                            use town centres can reduce the distance to travel,           manage it appropriately for each location;
strategies                                               encourage walking and cycling and increase the                priorities for improving walking and cycling
                                                                                                                      	
                                                         convenience of public transport.                              infrastructure;
Over the last two decades various Council and
State initiatives have sought to improve personal        While the planning scheme can manage the amount               how to harness new technologies; and
                                                                                                                      	
mobility by the integration of land use policy with      and location of housing, visitor accommodation
                                                                                                                       new methods of funding transport infrastructure
                                                                                                                      	
public transport, active transport infrastructure and    and business functions, the volume of people
                                                                                                                       and services for the Shire.
car parking. The TravelSmart Noosa Program,              moving around Noosa Shire is influenced by other
introduced in 2005 encouraged private cars to be
more efficiently used with a proportion of trips being
replaced with walking, cycling, public transport or
even carpooling. While the uptake of walking and
cycling increased moderately it has not resulted
in fewer cars on the road and the program was
discontinued.




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