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Plasmatron wrote:Respect points for Mr Harbison +1

Now to actually put this into action!

For example, ahem, bringing Spire back from the dead.

Key policy areas that the council should investigate include:

· Encourage greater use of public transport, especially to parklands events.

· Encourage car pooling by incentives in carparking fees.

· Use traffic management plans to reduce through traffic in the CBD

Cities indeed pay dearly to create and maintain free or inexpensive parking and devote a tremendous amount of land to it. Parking experts say the cost of building above-ground parking can range from $15,000 to $30,000 per space. Subterranean spaces can cost $25,000 to $70,000 each.

jk1237 wrote:Aparently Perth's new BHP building has only been required to provide around 300 car spaces for a building that will support around 5000 workers. Why are we needing to build 8-10 level carparks for office buildings of around 15 storeys and under. If Adelaide ever gets a building the size and height of BHP, the ACC will prob require a whole city block to be demolished to make way for a big enough carpark. No wonder why developers are building student housing blocks everywhere, caus these are exempt from being forced to provide carparks. Is it any wonder why there are no cranes on our skyline for office development. Is it too much bother to build office development in Adelaide?

Please Adelaide City Council, change your minimum carpark ratios to max carpark ratios and lower the amount immediately. If not the state govt needs to overule. This policy is turning our once great city into a car infested hole

ADELAIDE City Council would be relegated to collecting rates and rubbish under a plan to hand control of the CBD to the State Government.

The Property Council of Australia SA division is pushing for a government-controlled economic development agency to take over planning and strategic decisions of the CBD by the middle of next year under a blueprint to be released this week.

Under the proposal the council would be largely sidelined from major economic decisions.

Instead it would be left with providing municipal services and managing residential development in North Adelaide.

Property Council SA executive director Nathan Paine said SA needed a new governance model to remove the "petty, small-minded" politics from "state significant" decisions.

"It must be recognised that the central city is of critical importance not only to CBD residents and workers but to the state as a whole," he said.

"It is far too important to leave to the political whims of councillors elected by a handful of voters from North Adelaide.

"We are suggesting State Government control at the end of the day. When push comes to shove the CBD is about every South Australian."

The proposal is a key recommendation of the Property Council's document Adelaide 2036 - Building on Light's Vision, which will be launched on Tuesday outlining a new vision for the CBD at SA's bicentenary.

Mr Paine has remained coy about other elements of the manifesto but said the Adelaide City EDA would be controlled by an independent, five-member, state-appointed board and based on similar models used in cities including New York and Singapore.

It would report to the Minister for Economic Development and would be responsible for economic development, planning policy, asset management, urban design and key infrastructure delivery for the inner city and the parklands, including major events.

Agency members would include a representative from the city council and people with business and property expertise, and it would be funded through a separate levy on city ratepayers.

Mr Paine believed the agency could be in place by July next year pending legislation to establish the new body.

Last year the State Government stripped the council of planning powers for all projects costing more than $10m.

Outgoing Adelaide City Council Lord Mayor Michael Harbison did not find the proposal "objectionable".

"'I think there is value in ensuring the consideration of wider metropolitan and state needs in the management and development of the inner city," he said.

But he believed the best model would be to establish three super councils across Adelaide's north, south and central regions.

Will wrote: Those projects such as Flinders Link which do include large carparks were built

crawf wrote:City Central?

jk1237 wrote:

Will wrote: Those projects such as Flinders Link which do include large carparks were built

huh, at the back of the 2 new buildings on Flinders St (Flinders Link) there is a huge great multi-storey new car park attached to it. I will go in and get a photo if you like. The laneway would actually look OK if it wasnt for the big concrete/prison bar carpark that dominates it. That car park was built at similar stage.

Can you give me some examples of new office blocks (over 7-8 levels) over the past 5 years that are not within a few metres of a new carpark

My next ranting question is what is the point of having such stringent architectural guidelines for new buildings, ie the DAP refusing to give approval for some buildings based on their look, when we let our CBD be dominated by these disgusting concrete, wire mesh/bar carparks everywhere.

And also I thought our council is supposed to be all for sustainable development ie green buildings yet they allow the most unsustainable development possible for western cities by encouraging greater use of the vehicle by having such a huge supply of carparks