Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00174:front:0:p64
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00174
Segment Type: other
Provision Reference: 
Character Range: 180006–183035

encouraged.
Residential frontages may be set back from street boundaries to provide entry porches and a garden interface with the public domain to protect the amenity of residents and contribute to the interest and landscape qualities of the street.
Figure 24: Section 9 Barton – Indicative active frontages

Parking and access
Large off‑street permanent surface car parks are to be avoided. Car parking is to be accommodated in basements and/or in above ground structures concealed from public view. Blank façades to public spaces or streets are not permitted and sculptural elements and urban scale public art is encouraged. The inclusion of these elements can assist in ascribing different meanings to buildings, and provides the opportunity to characterise not only shelter and functionality, but to interact with our daily lives.
Some short stay on‑street car parking should be provided to support retail uses, pedestrian amenity and after hours activity.

Car parking standards
Car parking for development should accord with the following rates:
  *      Residential; Commercial Accommodation (Serviced Apartment only):
             + 1.5 spaces per 100 square metres of gross floor area.
  *      Bank; Child Care Centre; Consulting Rooms; Cooperative Society; Office; Personal Service Establishment:
             + two spaces per 100 square metres of gross floor area.
  *      Restaurant, Bar, Café; Retail:
             + 2.5 spaces per 100 metres of gross floor area.
A higher on‑site and/or off‑site parking provision may be required by the National Capital Authority after taking into account the relationship between on‑site parking, off‑site parking opportunities and the capacity of public transport in the area at the time of development.
The proponent must provide the National Capital Authority a long term parking strategy for construction staging which minimises disruption to parking. The parking strategy must be adopted in the first stage of development to accommodate a minimum of 470 displaced car parking spaces.
Access to the site (for parking and site servicing) should be from the side and access street generally.
Additional parking should be provided for vehicles associated with less consumption of energy. These include bicycles, motorcycles, small cars and car‑sharing vehicles.
Car parking structures should provide secure storage and related facilities for bicycle users. This would position the development as a local centre for commuting and recreational cyclists, as well as providing the opportunity for an alternative mode of transport between the many office buildings in the locale.
Figure 25: Section 9 Barton – Indicative parking and access

Figure 26: Section 9 Barton – Indicative street sections

Landscape/streetscape
Paving, lighting, street trees and planting beds should be of high quality and should reinforce the amenity and visual quality of the pedestrian environment. Street trees and other large trees are to be planted in deep‑root soil conditions. Existing large trees