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1. This appears to another band-aid solution applied to the out of date and inadequate St Ives Shopping Village in an attempt to meet the demands of the continually growing population in St Ives.
   There is inadequate parking for both staff and shoppers at the Centre which causes both traffic chaos and parking out of local streets. St Ives Shopping Village infrastructure needs to be updated to meet the population growth caused by the proliferation of high density housing in the area.

2. This shopping centre is badly in need of a massive overhaul. If the centre has a master plan, it is not evident....the Woolworths store is too small...efforts to overhaul shops are very welcome, but the centre itself needs work, just look at the Mona Vale Road entry and dodgem cars style entry around the Harris farm trucks, forklifts, and garbage... The lack of maintainance in the underground car park, the staff car park on Mona Vale Road...

   The ticketing system will just slow down entry and exit, and not improve matters at all. Council should reject this and demand more given the changing housing profile of the area.

3. Hello, I went and talked to the Librarian there yesterday looking for anyone else interested in the Centre or in anywhere else along Mona Vale Road. Although she indicated that nobody was known of I would like to organise a discussion meeting if say five can be found. Can I put my contact details here?

4. Hello, re my earlier "looking for anyone else interested in the Centre or in anywhere else along Mona Vale Road. Although she indicated that nobody was known of I would like to organise a discussion meeting if say five can be found. Can I put my contact details here?" there seemed nobody interested at all or at least who indicated so .. but if desired please contact me a john dot mail at ozemail dot com dot au , as I'd like to hear from anyone. John.

5. I agree with those who state that this is purely an attempt to take advantage of the shopping village weaknesses. The centre is desperately in need of enlargement. The parking is terrible, the roads around the entrances appalling, and the guards standing at the entries would barely be able to stop workers parking there. Time is up for a major overhaul, knock down and rebuild. Sadly if this was to happen, those shops made to renovate after having the centre management put pressure on them to do so, will see their money gone down the drain.

6. Why would you spend money on parking meters this isn't the eastern suburbs .
   Why make people spending money in the centre be on a time line to move their car build a multi level car park to cater for the amount of cars and encourage people to come and spend money in the centre I'm sure the centre can afford to fund this .

7. Shopping centre parking restrictions are unfortunately inevitable and necessary when you have high density unit developments nearby. I dont think the centre really has any other option. Whether those developments are appropriate is an entirely different argument. None of us want unit residents and their visitors using the shopping centre for all day parking. If the first 3 hours are free, and staff have an appropriate parking allocation, I can only see this being of benefit to shoppers.

8. I guess Michael's "Shopping centre parking restrictions are unfortunately inevitable and necessary" is right .. sooner or later we see it everywhere. I was just curious about the supposed use of St. Ives shopping centre by "communters" being what necessitates this at the moment. Consider that the big shopping centre at Gordon (the Gordon Centre) has no boom gates at all (and no charges). They all have restricted parking hours (generally a three hour limit). What is the difference? Has Gordon been policing the matter and St. Ives not? The Gordon Centre is right near a railway station but St. Ives is not -- so one might imagine Gordon shopping centre as more attractive to commuters?

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