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Tauranga parking building added to plan

Sonya Bateson
By Sonya Bateson
Regional content leader, Bay of Plenty Times and Rotorua Daily Post·Bay of Plenty Times·
3 Feb, 2015 07:30 PM2 mins to read

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Tauranga City Councillor Rick Curach revealed plans for a new parking building on Harington St in August. Photo / File

Tauranga City Councillor Rick Curach revealed plans for a new parking building on Harington St in August. Photo / File

A$25 million parking building could be built in the Tauranga city centre within three years.

With new developments coming to the city centre such as the tertiary campus and the new Trustpower building, a new 650-park building has been included in Tauranga City Council's draft Long Term Plan, which goes out for public consultation in March.

The council voted 9-1 yesterday to include the parking building in the draft 10-year plan.

It follows the council's decision against a proposed cycleway for the region, which you can read about here.

Heath Lett of the Tauranga Road Cycling Club at the Wairoa River bridge near where a proposed cycleway was planned to be built. Photo/George Novak
Heath Lett of the Tauranga Road Cycling Club at the Wairoa River bridge near where a proposed cycleway was planned to be built. Photo/George Novak
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These developments, along with other confidential potential developments that are in discussions with the council, will put pressure on the city centre's 3400 car parks.

If approved, the new building will be built on land occupied by an off-street car park on Harington St by the end of 2018.

Councillor Gail McIntosh said it was time to accept the inevitable.

"We have a popular place where people are willing to pay for parking but want to be sure it's available. With this report I think it's where we have to go. Bite the bullet."

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Cr John Robson said the debt for the building would be user funded and not ratepayer funded.

"A clever council working with clever staff will make this building more affordable than people think. It's sensible spending by a sensible group of councillors."

Tauranga is a "car-centric city", Cr Rick Curach said, and it was unlikely there would be any major shift to buses or bikes any time soon.

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