Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00174:reg:10:p77
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00174
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 10 (pt 77/99)
Character Range: 555889–558888

multi‑level car parking structures fronting Northbourne Avenue are not permitted. On‑grade parking is discouraged and will only be permitted if the following criteria are met:
       * parking is located to the rear of the site away from Northbourne Avenue and major cross streets
       * cars are screened from view to the maximum extent possible of streets, buildings, communal and private open space areas
       * parking is incorporated into the landscape design of the site, by extending planting and materials into car parking space
       * light coloured paving materials or permeable paving systems are used and shade trees are planted between every 4‑5 parking spaces to reduce increased surface temperatures from large areas of paving.
Car park entries should be located away from Northbourne Avenue.
A traffic and parking assessment should accompany development proposals for any site for consideration by the relevant authority.
Federal Highway
The visual impact of large car parking areas must be minimised through adequate screening and landscape treatment that appropriately considers view lines and safety. Podium and multi‑level car parking structures fronting the Federal Highway are not permitted.
Careful consideration should be given to the access, internal circulation and parking of service and heavy goods vehicles within the area.
A traffic and parking assessment should accompany development proposals for any site, for consideration by the relevant authority.

Lighting

All outdoor lighting, including security and car park lighting, must be designed and sited to minimise light pollution. All outdoor lighting (including lighting fixed to structures) must use full cut‑off light fittings. Any uplighting of buildings should be carefully designed to keep night time overspill and glare to a minimum.
Specialty lighting should be used to highlight any ACT border marker.

Signage

Northbourne Avenue
Careful consideration should be given to the integration of signs with building design and landscaping to ensure they do not detract from the Northbourne Avenue frontage. Any signage not affixed to a building must be within a landscape setting.
Signage across a site should be designed in accordance with a cohesive and coordinated theme, and respond to the scale, proportion and detailing of the development.
To minimise visual clutter, individual commercial tenancies should have no more than one sign fronting Northbourne Avenue. For residential development, a single wall sign is permitted, of no more than 10% in size of the façade on which it is located. Larger developments may include legible and discrete way finding signage.
Permitted road signs are those that could reasonably be expected along a main thoroughfare, such as directional signage and street signs, and that are required by relevant traffic authorities. No commercial advertising is permitted on road signs.
Changeable message signs, animated or flashing signs, and third party advertising signs