Yarra Bend has no street parking.
Yarra Council has taken action on the issue and defined parking rules around the park, where the overflow is ending up.
Yarra has defined the new scheme for time duration limits in key areas around the park and joining streets
Residents in the existing Yarra Bend townhouses have one garage, and apartment dwellers have maybe one space in a shared garage, but there would be barely half a dozen on-street spaces in the whole development.
Given many people either have 2 cars OR use their garages as storage, parking is shaping up to be a permanent point of friction in the neighbourhood.
The result is that parking around the park is tight.
The overflow adds to the existing demand – from those street’s residents, construction workers, weekend sporting teams and the school pick up / drop off busy hour. The Yarra Bend overflow is running against an already well used space.
APMAG has been raising this issue since we first saw the streetscape design, back in the day.
This week View St residents were informed of Yarra Council’s action – to introduce timed parking and a system of resident permits – familiar in so many other parts of Yarra.
Yes, Alphington is a real city suburb now – we have parking signs.
First and foremost, Yarra is to be congratulated for taking action. This issue is here to stay and it is great that early action will shape the ‘new normal’.
Do you think the balance of times and areas is about right? Or could do with some tweaking?
- Will the proposed restrictions go a long way to ensuring View St is not used as an alternative garage by YarraBend residents who have failed to do their due diligence as to the serious dearth of onsite parking available to them?
- Will prospective buyers notice and demand parking that suits their needs?
- Will you be inconvenienced?
- Do you think it will help during the week? On the Weekend?
- Do you hate parking signs generally – and even more in your back yard?
We’re not sure at this stage which streets have been formally informed of the new plan, but a broad group of locals will be impacted – particularly those who live close, or those who live where the parking will flow to next – like the Darebin side of Heidelberg Rd.
It’s one thing to have parking signs but will the council actually be enforcing the limits? They currently don’t have an active presence in the area with a lack of policing with other park rules. Will that change?
Firstly a couple of clarifications:
Residents of Yarra Bend do have some (limited) street parking, and it’s a lot more than “half a dozen in the entire development”
Secondly, some units (3BR?) have more than one car space.
On a more general note, residents of Yarra Bend are not the only ones who park and crowd the local streets. Many houses do not have off street parking, use their private space for other purposes, or have more cars than spaces. They will however, have the benefit of a permit system, which will (hopefully) reduce the TOTAL number of cars parked on the street by reducing the number of permits per household.
If the “cost” of restricted parking favouring existing properties is the addition of parking signs, then objecting to those strikes me as being “precious” and doesn’t get my support.
I’m also concerned that in finding this solution, a divide might potentially be created between “people”, all of whom have some rights to what are public resources.
In addition, I expect the parking space “shortage” within Yarra Bend will resolve itself over time as residents adapt to what is available and to the changing world. Objectively, a suburb 7km from the CBD is urban, and has a collective responsibility to adapt to the 21st century, and that means a reduced reliance on motor vehicles.
When purchasing a house in Stage 1 of the Yarra Bend development we and countless other residents I have spoken to were not informed of any proposed parking restrictions by either Glenvill or Yarra council. We were informed about restrictions being implemented two years after contract signing and financial contributions being made. Many residents within the development were misinformed and were not given the opportunity to make an informed decision on whether they were going to be impacted by these harsh restrictions. It’s a little too late to be informing residents quite some time after contracts have been signed and deposits being paid. Residents have been sold four bedroom homes with single garages and inadequate off street parking. Why did the council approve all the dwellings if they were not going to commit to providing adequate off street parking?