Amendment 9
Caibidil:
Ábhair:
We object to this proposed amendment, particularly the Council’s intention to avoid allocating individual parking spaces to residents.
- Residents in developments such as Parkleigh and Cooper Square already have allocated parking. We are concerned about what the proposed changes would mean for existing developments and how parking would be managed and enforced in practice.
- Unallocated parking directly contradicts the Council’s push for EV adoption. In existing developments like Parkleigh, allocated spaces allow residents to invest their own money in installing home EV chargers. Without assigned spaces, neither residents nor Owners’ Management Companies (OMCs) have certainty about where to install EV chargers or who will cover the cost. This leaves neighbourhoods stuck with the minimum 10% provision.
- These restrictions are being introduced before public transport projects (DART+ SW, BusConnects) are delivered. Until viable alternatives exist, restricting resident parking will only lead to overspill onto surrounding roads.
Instead of prematurely restricting resident parking, we ask South Dublin County Council to first ambition on completing several of the items on the following list before actually removing/restricting parking, for the reason that no completing them force residents to use cars which requires parking:
- Make sure amenities and needed facilities (supermarkets, pharmacy, creche, schools, GPs, gyms/pools) are available and realised at walking distance; not just planned.
- Encourage active travel by improving infrastructure, security and connectivity, and certainly not reduce it by cost-cutting measures as removing pedestrian bridges or reallocating them to cheaper building locations.
- Increase commuter and visitor parking near the urban cores.
- Launch an SDCC bike-sharing scheme, using Clonburris and Adamstown as high-density pilot locations, utilising the Grand Canal Greenway as one of the key corridors.
In the interim until public transport projects realize, investigate the use of undeveloped building sites (e.g. future school or employment building site) as a temporary overflow parking until public transport projects are delivered.