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Areas unsuitable for development
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Participants sent a clear message that additional dwellings would not be supported in coastal locations, particularly in the existing centres of Dee Why, Narrabeen, Collaroy and Freshwater. What do you think makes an area unsuitable for further development?
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Comment 1 2 Jul 2010, 9:46 AM
I agree that those 4 areas are unsuitable for any further developments.
Reasons why an area is unsuitable are ,
1. Because the existing roads would be unable to accomodate the increase in traffic without increasing congestion.
2.Free Public parking areas including on-road positions arent abundant enough in an area to take on the increase in weekend and holiday parking requirements.
3. The current low rise style in an area would be dominated by any development that is not in keeping with the look and feel of that area. Although some existing developments look big and ugly and are now seen as a mistake, they should not be used as a precedence to further ruin the look and feel of a suburb.
4. Suburbs that are close to the beaches dont have suburbs to the East for traffic flow to dissapate, so traffic is overly concentrated in those areas. Beach suburbs should have less density because the population and traffic are confined.
Thank you, Brett.
Comment 2 14 Aug 2010, 9:51 AM
An area is unsuitable for development if
1 proposed development is unable to address the increased traffic and parking demands.
2 The development would require high rise to achieve housing targets
3 The proposed suburb already has significant additional weekend and holiday traffic because of its popularity to visitors living outside the locality such as the existing identified centres
4 Any undeveloped bushlands should not be developed in areas already identified as being in a HIGH RISK bushfire prone area. Development in these areas for the sake of reaching targets should be undertaken with extreme caution.
Comment 3 20 Sep 2010, 1:32 PM
At this stage, no suburb should be considered suitable for higher density development until the residents of that suburb vote more than two to one in favour of such development. Otherwise the majority of residents are likely to lose the quality of setting, surroundings and facilities that they bought into. The only winners are likely to be developers and real estate agents.
Yes, there are many areas that could be converted to higher density residential, and meet the aims of being close to shops, work and transport.
The worry is that the Talk of the Town presented a few areas, without more…
