Unley Council is conducting a City-wide Parking Strategy consultation. It will run from today for a four-week period. In so doing, we will be applying a new and innovative Shaping Unley Process for this consultation.
We are aware that many (ratepayers and visitors alike) struggle to find parks in our streets or traverse those streets because of heavy parking. We have a plethora of narrow streets, and many homes and businesses have inadequate off-street parking.
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The first phase of developing the City-wide Parking Strategy will be with an Issues and Ideas Forum. We will be seeking city-wide community views in this forum on:
- any current issues you have with your on-street parking experience(s); and
- any ideas on how you think these issues could be resolved.
We are also seeking community views on good parking experiences and what people think works well.
This is your opportunity to ensure your views are considered. An opportunity for those who have expressed concerns in the past, or who want to now. Please take the opportunity.
A Community Panel will consider the feedback before recommendations are put before Council.
We are very excited in anticipation of the initial feedback we may receive from the community. This will help inform future Community Panel discussions. These forums will be attended by a select group of community representatives. This may include you.
We are sending invites to 1200 randomly selected Unley residents and businesses today. Invites seeking people to register their interest to form the 30-representative panel (15 residents and 15 businesses). If you are keen, you might pre-empt this by filling out the form on the Shaping Unley page of our website.
We are seeking a diverse group of people to form part of the Community Panel, the second phase of the Shaping Unley process. Watch out for your invite.
The Shaping Unley process aims to empower the community to influence Council’s decision-making via this committee.
Please provide your feedback so the panel has what they need to make an informed recommendation to Council. The more people that the Council hears from regarding on-street parking experiences in the City of Unley, and their ideas on how parking can be improved, the better.
If this proves to be a successful consultation, we will use it again.
Instead of coming out only at ShowTime & changing the hourly parking zone time. Maybe trials leave them as a set time for 12 months and have regular rangers out. Think about the people who live there, around the showgrounds, especially on a Sunday morning market day. The traffic on Leader St is horrendous & blockages on the street from people trying to park inside the showgrounds. The side streets parking are bumper to bumper even blocking off access to residents driveways. Maybe reconsider the market parking on the other side on Rose Tce where there is ample off street parking.
As for around the rest of the streets all the way to HJ in Forestville & EP limit the parking time zone as too many people are using these streets as all day parking. They are driving in from out southern areas parking their cars and creating again blockages of streets. If you limit parking closer to the city as in Forestville Goodwood EP you will find drivers have to either park further out (flinders car parking) or right in the city which costs or they will take Public transport, at the moment you are making it easier for them to park all day in our local streets for nothing to them but huge inconvenience and sometime even dangerous to us. When the rangers are requested they should ticket more not just go out and tell the person that a neighbour has complained that’s really not smart for the people complaining or the council community. Just do the job of ticketing.
Thank you. Your observations I personally have experienced. I partially relate to the observation that we are making it too easy for them to avoid more practical solutions.
I trust you will be providing this direct to Council. You can do so via the online survey, or via email to [email protected]
Sent Don
I do remember outting in a complaint to the showgrounds about traffic especially on the sunday mornings market days, peopleblocking coming & goiung in front of the entry on Leader sometimes to goody road, as I have a client I service every Sunday morning, and I was told there is no problems with traffic as they have traffic wardens, well that is definately not true on any given sunday but expecially on market days.so I was fobbed off bcause I was the only one complaining
55 Second Ave Forestville. Since parking changed at the leader at end of First and Second Ave, people have been parking at our end. They are all day workers at Ashford. The new parking rules near Leader St has just shifted the problem to our end of the street. Now cars line along each side making it trickier to get into driveways and generally clogging up the streets.
Thank you, Sandy. I trust you will be providing this direct to Council. You can do so via the online survey, or via email to [email protected]
Improved cycle paths and public transport to enable fewer vehicles per household.
Thank you, Louisa. I trust you will be providing this direct to Council. And in so doing, any suggestions regarding the walking and cycling strategy we have and improvements that might be possible there. You can do so via the online survey, or via email to [email protected]
We are in First Ave Forestville and are having ongoing issues with parking from Ashford hospital, and it will get worse with the development on the old Le COrnus site.
I suggest that parking be restricted to 2 hours, with permits for local residents to be exempt from these requirements
Thank you, Peter. I trust you will be providing this direct to Council. You can do so via the online survey, or via email to [email protected]