Chapter 10
Key Development Areas and Neighbourhood Development Sites
Issues / Recommendations / Observations
Sub. No.
Chief Executive’s Response & Recommendation
The routing of through-motor traffic over the Eastern Gateway Bridge and through Monahan’s Road is inappropriate.
402, 414
. The Eastern Gateway Bridge will provide a multi-modal connection between the City Docks and Tivoli Docks new residential neighbourhoods. Monahan’s Road provides the only vehicular traffic route through the City Docks. Recommendation: No change. Destination uses are those that people travel to from their origin (home), and this applies equally to a school as to an office or a third-level college or a shop or park. Further clarification is required in the plan to outline the car parking strategy for visitors. There are advantages in applying car parking standards per number of employees with one standard, rather than a metric for a variety of land uses. Recommendation: Provide additional guidance on how “visitor / disabled spaces” will be addressed. The overall aim for the City Docks demand management strategy for car parking is that the very ambitious mode share targets will lead to 75% of peak hour trips being by green modes. The car parking standards have been devised to achieve the mode split targets. respond to the street capacity of the City Docks and reflect the nature of the areas and their placemaking ambition. Public transport services will be ramped-up to serve the City Docks to reflect transport demand by the NTA / Bus Eireann and infrastructure will be improved to enable trips by public transport, walking and cycling. Cork City Council is undertaking a review of the draft ABTA model to confirm the car parking quanta based upon the refined land use assumptions in the
It is noted that Table 10.5: Car Parking Standards requires clarification on how the standards will be applied in relation to destination uses, such as schools, for which no specific standard is outlined. It is submitted that developers prefer car parking standards expressed at a rate of per metre squared as this is easy to calculate.
380, 410
The proposed quantum of car parking of 10,000 spaces and the car parking standards appears to be too generous and are likely to result in suburban-style excessive external parking. It is submitted that the car parking standards are too restrictive for office schemes in advance of the delivery of the proposed LRT system. Comparative analysis is provided between the City Docks standards and other Irish development plan standards.
380, 394, 402, 414
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