Public space in our busy capital city is limited and in high demand. The city continues to grow and change and the way we use our streets and spaces continues to evolve.
Kerbside space is an important transfer point for people and goods into our city. It accommodates many functions that keep our city operating. These include loading and unloading goods, access for people with disability and space for people arriving or leaving by public transport, car share, taxi or private vehicle.
Currently:
- Over 900,000 people are in the city on an average weekday.
- More than 159,000 people live in our 102,000 residences.
- We have 23,000 kerbside spaces across the municipality’s 37 square kilometres. We allocate 17,000 of those spaces for car parking. There are almost 200,000 off-street car parking spaces.
- Space at the kerbside (including space for parking) makes up only 4 per cent of the total space on our streets.
To learn more about how our kerbside space is being used in 2023,
read page 9 of the plan.
We need to manage the different and sometimes conflicting demands on kerbside space as our
city changes. Our goal is to make sure it functions in the best way possible to benefit our businesses, residents and visitors.
Developing the plan
We informed the Parking and Kerbside Management Plan through
engagement with businesses, residents and visitors, the Victorian Government and the transport sector. More than 400 people and organisations made this plan possible, as well as 1,000 parking users who shared their experience of parking in the CBD.
Council endorsed the final plan on 16 May 2023, committing to manage parking with a data-led, transparent approach that regularly engages with the local community to review and refresh parking conditions.
This is our plan to make parking simpler, fairer and more reliable. It includes seven strategic directions and 14 policies to guide our decisions.