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Tuesday, 3 March 2020

DCC vision for inner city: fewer residential car parks

By Brent Melville

Parking rules have been adapted for the needs of Dunedin heritage developers. PHOTO: GREGOR RICHARDSON 

 

Dunedin city planners envisage a future with fewer cars in the inner city.

Under the Dunedin City Council’s reviewed second generation district plan (2GP), residential developers across the CBD and other parts of the city are under no obligation to provide parking for tenants or apartment owners, as long as the building offers five residential units or fewer.

The more lenient parking and other building requirements were part of the rezoning of the city’s inner city and warehouse precinct area, aimed at converting warehouse and other space into mixed-use residential and commercial developments, council planning and environment committee chairman David Benson-Pope said.....

........Under the 2GP, developers converting or upgrading older buildings in the city centre, harbourside, the southern part of Princes St, and Smith St and York Pl zones also had the right to remove existing parking spaces in favour of ensuring a positive streetscape.

Comments on ODT site following this article: 

 

Timmy Tue, 03/03/2020 - 9:53am #

Like most people I'm more than happy to shop on-line instead of wasting my time and money on parking in CBD. Way to go DCC! Great job stimulating economic growth in the city!
 

Since Left Tue, 03/03/2020 - 9:54am #

In tandem with this DCC where is the plan for light rail, servicing the shops in the city, unless you have that you are totally wrong. It needs to stop

RAY Tue, 03/03/2020 - 10:02am #

We are very aware the DCC has taken this attitude. But it does not remove the love of our cars and we will continue to use them.