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City of Port Phillip, St Kilda Rd living

City of PP – parking permits

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As part of my research on local parking, I decided to read the City of Port Phillip info.  There was a lot that I didn’t know!!

This link has the details of types and costs.  Party ones, moving in/out ones, temporary one – even one for tradies.

It is worth knowing that residents can apply for a ‘tradie’ parking permit.  It costs $51 per week and are for a max of 4 weeks – but means your tradie doesn’t have to keep feeding a meter!!

BUT beware tradie permits have the same restrictions as visitor and residents permits – and you can’t park just anywhere…read the details and one big gotcha around here is you can only park in front of residential properties and the City of PP definition of residential is tough.

“Council defines a Residential property as being a property that is used 100% for residential purposes. Properties that have a mixed use (i.e. apartments on upper floors and a café/shop/business on ground floor) are not considered residential.”

Clearly that excludes most of St Kilda Rd and most of Bowen Cres!!  Be careful

I’ll query this definition of ‘residential properties’ to the agenda for my regular meeting with City of PP.  But for now I’d be very careful

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Parking – good news

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Now that we have Bowen Cres open again at St Kilda Rd, my new best friend, Tom from the City of Port Phillip, paid us a visit.

He agreed that the bays on the south side of Bowen Cres – the old police bays – should be converted for public use.  It is likely that the bay nearest St Kilda Rd, will be a commercial bay and the rest will be public bays.  No final decision yet but likely to be one hour paid bays.

Tom also checked out Queens Lane, behind 1 Queens Rd.  He is proposing to make a few improvements there too.

All will take a few weeks – but we’re nearly there.

He could not commit, but will also try and improve the entry /exit at Toorak Rd / Queens Lane.  It would involve smoothing the kerbing.

Thanks City of PP especially Tom, Rebecca and Bernadene 🙂

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Dark footpath outside the Botanica

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I’m sure I am not the only one that has noticed that it has been very dark outside The Botanica lately.  They have had to turn off the street lights to allow them to do some electrical work.

I understand that they checked on the first night and decided the site lights gave enough light.  It seems some of those site lights have been moved and we now have an issue.

The fine line is that we don’t really want a big bank of lights on our footpath blinding us all but it MUST be safe.

Tonight they will walk around and make it safe.

They have designed a proper solution for when we have our own big hole out the front…but that is later in the year