Submission to Wellington City Council on Parking Policy

Submission to WCC on Parking Policy, 6 June 2020
Jackie Pope/Ann Mallinson, Co-Presidents, Oriental Bay Residents Association

The Oriental Bay Residents Association has considered the Parking Policy 2020 Statement of Proposal, and would comment as follows:

  1. We assume we come under the category City Fringe and Inner City Suburbs. Our comments are made on that assumption.

  2. We support a hierarchy of use for inner city parking in Oriental Bay for residents, and we want short stay to have a similar priority.

  3. We agree with the proposal that commuters should have a low priority.

  4. We do not support rationing residents’ parking to only one space per house that has no off-street parking.

  5. If, however, Oriental Bay is viewed as a key transport route, we would object strongly to residents having such a low priority.

  6.  The Recreation category needs to be expanded to include beach-side parking, to enable short stay visitors to enjoy the Oriental Bay Beach.

Thank you for the opportunity to make a submission on this important matter. If oral submissions are available, we would like to speak to our submission.