Chapter 4
Transport and Mobility
Issues / Recommendations / Observations
Sub. No.
Chief Executive’s Response & Recommendation
priority, laybys, safer crossing facilities, seating, contra-flow cycle lanes, parklets, bicycle share schemes and cycle parking. Additional on-street spaces will be repurposed to support public realm improvements including street trees, wider footpaths and recreational facilities. Where on-street parking is provided to support the economic functions of the City Centre and urban town centres, the emphasis will be on supporting a quick turnover of spaces to ensure that spaces are readily available for those businesses that rely upon them. In residential areas, the objectives will be to discourage commuter parking that contribute to parking stress and unsafe parking practices immediately outside paid parking zones, and to free-up kerbside space by providing alternatives to private car ownership. Cork City Council support the implementation of Age Friendly parking spaces but considers this item to be operational in nature and not for consideration in the preparation of the City Development Plan. The Draft Plan contains several Age Friendly objectives. Recommendation: No change. The main objective of the off-street parking measures is to free-up kerbside space within the city and town centres and to support a viable, public transport system. The Maximum Parking standards will be reviewed in tandem with the roll out of CMATS improvements. Recommendation:
• The need for an objective to support the provision of on street Age Friendly parking spaces. • Concerns regarding the removal of on street parking in the Summerhill North/St Lukes area. • Suggestion to provide consolidated Area Based Parking solutions for new development e.g in Mobility Hubs or where long-standing on-street parking has necessarily been displaced as a result of Bus-Connects, Safer Routes to School, urban village public realm upgrades, pedestrian and cycle safety measures, local flooding mitigation and local environment improvements. • Further information on how development can move forward in advance of this infrastructure coming forward is requested in relation to parking standards, together with how a flexible approach to parking might be applied between to support a modal shift to active and sustainable mobility.
Off Street Parking
Submission raises concerns with regard to the removal of on street parking in an area with limited off-street parking. Additionally, concerns are raised with regard to the proposed limitation if off street parking in the Docklands . Further information on how development can move forward in advance of this infrastructure coming forward is requested in relation to parking standards, together
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