Conference Papers Produced by: Document Transformation Technologies PARKING REQUIREMENTS FOR THE CITY OF TSHWANE

Parking is an important and integral part of the transportation system in a metropolitan area. The provision of parking is expensive. The parking rates required for parking at developments should be sufficient, but care should also be taken not to provide too much parking. Insufficient parking, on the other hand, can result in overflow or queuing on the street network and illegal parking on the sidewalks and in the road reserve. A parking policy and parking provision requirements are essential element of any urban transport plan. Surveys were undertaken by the former Centurion Town Council (CTC) and on an ad hoc basis by the former City Council of Pretoria (CCP). This information was combined and recommended rates were determined for different land uses. The approach followed was not to obtain statistically reliable data (as it is impossible with the available data), but to: < obtain a reasonable indication of the parking rates of existing land uses, and < compare between the parking rates determined with new surveys and the parking rates required in previous studies (some were done several years ago), which are included in the existing documentation. The existing documents on parking standards, listed below, were used by different councils to determine the number of parking bays needed for several new developments or where the land use changed. If a specific land use was not specified in the Town Planning Scheme of that specific council, some of these documents were used to determine the preferred parking rate to be used