Submission to Council’s FMAC Structure Plan ideas paper – April 2022
The Committee for Greater Frankston have released a response to Frankston City Council’s FMAC Structure Plan ideas paper – April 2022.
Our key submission feedback includes:
- Car parking
- Frankston rail extension
- Bus interchange location
- Diverting Nepean Highway traffic
- Integration between the FMAC and the medical precinct
- Balancing “kicking off development” with “longer-term economic and social outcomes”.
Whilst we also suggest immediate FMAC Structure Plan action priorities:
1. Extend the Frankston train line at least 5km to Langwarrin, with a new station at Monash Peninsula campus, and dedicated commuter park and ride at Langwarrin. The scope must ensure a separation of the road, rail and pedestrian traffic corridors at Miall’s Gun Shop bridge/intersection and at Moorooduc Highway, and should also consider a redesign of the regional bus network routes to reduce Playne Street and Young Street bus traffic.
2. Redesign Frankston car parking pricing structure so both council and privately-owned car parks consistently include:
- first two hours free for Frankston’s visitors and shoppers.
- all-day parking prioritised first for CBD retail and office workers using a permit system, and be priced at, or below, $4 a day.
Any Frankston Council, or agent, discussions and correspondence with Vicinity about the FMAC’s car park pricing strategy (including consistent pricing, price rises, reducing parking supply, time restrictions, and/or subsequent FMAC economic impacts) need to be referred to the ACCC to independently oversee.
3. Acquire a large landholding on the periphery of Frankston CBD to accommodate sufficient consolidated public parking to support the proposed FMAC and medical precinct growth strategy. Amend the proposed FMAC Structure Plan design guidelines to consider the practicalities of incorporating onsite private car parking in new developments without compromising built-form aspirations.
4. Prioritise streetscaping and public realm improvements along the Nepean Highway–Kananook Creek precinct and Playne Street precinct to create two iconic boulevards that connect to Frankston’s existing foreshore, parkland and arts trail. We encourage Council to consider the Mordialloc design that separates through traffic from local traffic (one lane each way) with substantial, treed median strips, and includes casual, two-hour angled parking; bike lanes; wide footpaths and outdoor dining.
5. Develop a Student Town marketing position and strategy for FMAC employment to complement not compete with, or cannibalise, economic activity in other precincts. Seamless connectivity between the different economic precincts is important, hence our focus on the Playne Street art trail though the FMAC and connecting to the foreshore.
6. Explore alternative models of integrated social housing in the Frankston FMAC growth area (i.e. the Vancouver model).
Read full Submission here
