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1. 21 dwellings on 908m2 with reduced carparking.
   Question: where will the cars park that visit or are not catered for by the 'reduced carparking'? Answer: Edgevale Road.
   Squeezing 21 dwellings on such a small plot by reducing the carparking requirements just reduces the amenity of the surrounding streets, further clogging them with cars.
   I know it's fashionable to say that people will catch the bus/train/tram or cycle and in reality they may but they will still have a car. And when these dwellings are rented, there will be multiple cars per dwelling. Barkers Road is a clearway twice a day so when people do possibly catch the bus - tram is too far away, ditto train, they will leave their cars in Edgevale Road. And no I don't live in any of these sides streets - but have just seen the same thing happen in many other locations in the broader area.
   Poor proposal - make the developer reduce the dwellings and not give them a reduction in carparking.

2. I agree with Terry in terms of the car parking reduction approach and the little planning regard for the off site impacts on residents. In Hawthorn East the issue is worse with business development reductions in required car parking requirements, reductions in large unit development car parking requirements, and now the local residential streets now awash with competing residential and employee parking. A fixation with reducing onsite car parking requirements without regard to existing residents or their visitors or the reality in terms of the generated and related unit traffic, is having a negative social and amenity impact on residents. All new unit developments should provide for their needs onsite, including sufficient visitor parking. If the development can't meet this requirement, why is the development being approved?

3. 21 apartments on this site is too much on too little. This area is to be gazetted as a General Residential Zone which will stop this sort of development occuring. This is nothing more than an opportunistic application that deserves to be denied.
   Jack Roach
   BRAG

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