Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand (HNZ) confirmed the figure this week, but would not confirm whether a separate carparking building announced in 2021 would still go ahead.
Asked if it was concerned parking at the new hospital would not meet demand, HNZ said it complied with resource consent requirements.
Emails recently provided to the Otago Daily Times under the Official Information Act said there would be 75 inpatient building parks, and 19 outpatient building parks.
The figure did not include ambulance bays, loading bays and services vehicles, a partly redacted email from late May said.
The current hospital has about 211 public and staff carparks at the hospital and surrounding buildings — a number long criticised as inadequate.
Delivery of infrastructure and investment director Monique Fouwler said yesterday that in addition to these, the carparks at the current hospital concourse would also be kept, but did not say how many more spaces this provided.
Almost half of the 94 onsite parks would be for pick-up/drop-off, she said.
"The inpatient building — which includes ED — will have a total of 32 pick-up/drop-off parking spaces, and outpatients will have 12."
The new total is a significant reduction compared with the 2021 detailed business case, which included 250 dedicated parks.
The business case also stated further parking was being explored separately.
However, it is an increase on the numbers contained in a document released by HNZ earlier this year.
Written last September, the document said the hospital would have a capacity of just 16 pick-up and drop-off parks and 22 emergency department parking spaces, as reported by the ODT in mid May.
"While carparking has reduced, it is noted that recent legislation change has removed the requirement for hospital carparking from the district plan," the document said.
Ms Fouwler said the former SDHB was to provide additional carparks.
"However this was not part of the NDH project budget," she said.
The recently released emails indicated parking at the new hospital was changed again before the $90million cutbacks announced last December.
Pre-reset figures also put the number at 75 inpatient building parks and 19 outpatient building parks, the partially redacted email said.
"There appears to be no loss of carparking."
The ODT asked HNZ in mid May how many parks the new hospital would have.
HNZ had not given the 94-park figure at the time because plans were still being finalised, Ms Fouwler said.
In late 2021, the former Southern District Health Board (SDHB) announced it was looking for partners to invest in the development of a parking building for hospital users.
A registration of interest advised it would be a multi-storey building with enough parks to meet projected demand.
In April last year, the SDHB unveiled a master plan for a central city health and education precinct, which included a 500-vehicle parking facility.
HNZ was vague about the building earlier this year, stating that it was reviewing parking requirements and feedback.
Asked if any progress had been made in recent months — such as the award of a tender — it said it had not made any decisions.
It did not confirm whether the parking building would go ahead when asked directly.
"Te Whatu Ora has reviewed the carparking requirements for the NDH and based on the number of carparks required by the resource consent, which is being complied with, there have been no decisions as of yet in regard to a separate carparking building."
