CARS, PARKING AND BLOODY QUESTIONS

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As they say, there are some questions that you just cannot put off answering. This week in Canberra there'll be enough unanswered to keep a silly quizmaster on his toes. As the Local Govt. elections continue to loom there'll be quite a few at Launceston's Town Hall that given the chance, euphemistically, well they'll 'be left for the keeper'. Even so, they're not going to go away anytime soon.

If as reported in the Examiner today the City of Launceston owned C H Smith Carpark (CHS) has 302 car spaces and 80 are to be occupied by 80 Council staff spaces relocated from Cimitiere St there will ultimately be 220 spaces at CHS:

1. How many of these spaces will be made available to employees of CHS Govt. Offices?
2. For how long will the 80[?] Cimitiere St. spaces be available to the public and what is the             predicted annual income from that site for 80 or whatever number of spaces;
3. Given that Council has sold a portion of the land/spaces to a developer
      • for how long will a total of 80[?] Cimitiere St. spaces be available to the public; and
      • what annual income is anticipated for parking for this site and for how long?
4. Given that it has been projected that something in the order of 580 CoL Staff with 80 being allocated a car space at CHS:
      • how many, if any, car spaces are to be allocated to any of these people? and
      • for what annual fee per space?
5. Given that CoL/CHS car spaces will be costing approx. $3Million, or $30K a space,
       • how long is it anticipated that receipts from parking fees will take to repay the loan? and
       • over what period 5, 7 or more years – starting when and completed when?

In addition, when/if CoL looses the estimated $80Kplus from Willis St what will that mean for the city's parking and the Council budget? And the questions go on and on and on!

LINKS

• https://www.examiner.com.au/story/5628657/council-to-move-fleet-into-ch-smith-car-park/
• https://www.examiner.com.au/story/5487546/completion-of-c-h-smith-site-pegged-for-end-of-year/
• https://www.examiner.com.au/story/5491859/launcestons-service-tasmania-to-move-into-c-h-smith-building/