FAQs

On-street parking is a limited resource with often competing user requirements and demands. Managing these competing demands can be difficult, particularly in a growing inner urban Council environment like Unley. Developing a clear, fair and equitable approach to managing on-street parking will make decision-making easier in the future and provide clarity to the community on why and how certain decisions are made.

Shaping Unley is a comprehensive engagement process that the Council is trialling to explore complex and polarising policy issues facing the City's community. The city-wide parking strategy is the first topic to use this process.

Shaping Unley aims to establish a positive partnership with the community in developing the city-wide parking strategy by drawing on the community's on-street parking experiences and ideas respectfully and collaboratively.

Find out more about the Shaping Unley process.

DemocracyCo are a local engagement company that specialises in collaborative and deliberative engagement. DemocracyCo believe that together we make better decisions. They create opportunities for all people to participate in solving the complex problems of our time by designing and delivering deliberative engagement processes. DemocracyCo have been supporting the City of Unley in the development of their Shaping Unley initiative.

The city-wide parking strategy aims to:

• Provide a holistic and strategic framework to guide Council decision making relating to the management of on-street parking, including permits.
• Provide a better balance of parking provisions for residents, businesses, shoppers, commuters, and others.
• Maximise the parking provisions already in place and deliver new provisions where appropriate.
• Better manage changing parking demands over time.

The Shaping Unley Community Panel comprised of 20 randomly selected community members, including Unley residents, business owners and staff, school staff, property owners / landlords, regular visitors, and casual visitors. Collectively the diversity of the group provided a wide mix of opinions and experiences when it came to parking within the City of Unley. 

The panel dedicated a large amount of their personal time (up to 20 hours) attending three panel sessions held in the evening to help their community and Council to develop principles and ideas that will underpin the development of the Strategy.