Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore has been urged to ditch her antipathy to cars and allow more parking spaces at high-density developments, as angry neighbours from surrounding areas claim their streets are being swamped by other people’s vehicles., near the border with Kensington, which will contain about 860 parking spaces for its 814 apartments and shops.The local MP, Local Government Minister Ron Hoenig, said high density housing in Zetland was predicated on a train station that was.
Hoenig said a two-bedroom apartment should generally come with two parking spots. “That’s not the view and philosophy of the city council, so consequently we have this parking shambles.” Hoenig told residents it was futile to try to stop the project altogether, although he personally believed it should be reserved as employment-generating land.
“NIMBYism is 0.5 per cent of the problem,” Grusovin said. “Is it NIMBY for people to question inappropriate development? Is it NIMBY to complain that development affects the amenity of people’s lives? Rampant development through bad planning is not solving our housing crisis.”