Car poolers seem the next to be affected by the Queenstown Lakes District Council's Queenstown Town Centre Transport Strategy.
In a report to today's full council meeting, principal infrastructure planner Tony Pickard has recommended the council revise its existing car-pooling scheme, which includes changing the rules concerning car pooling.
A separate report into the effect of the council's 115 leased car parks is on the way.
Mr Pickard's report said the council had 29 parks dedicated to car pooling around the CBD - 18 in its Ballarat St park and 11 in Boundary St. These are for car poolers from 7am to 10am, reverting to general parking after 10am if unoccupied.
Mr Pickard said the existing scheme had about 75 recorded users but random inspections in September and October identified the spaces were ''significantly underused''.
''In Boundary St the highest number on any one day was three permitted vehicles, and six in Ballarat St.''
Further, the existing database was not up to date - many car poolers had addresses within Queenstown, ''some within a kilometre of the town centre''.
Although Mr Pickard felt the benefits from retaining car pooling spaces outweighed the otherwise small increase in contestable parking spaces, he recommended changes to the existing scheme.
Key amendments were the requirement of a ''qualifying address'', aiming to target those who lived in catchments outside the town, and having a ''minimum of three users on each trip''.
Mr Pickard told the Otago Daily Times should the council agree to the changes, parking officers would regularly be checking cars as they arrived.
''If you're caught breaching the conditions you will lose your permit,'' he said.
The report said car pooling spaces would be available all day but parking would be restricted to up to 10 hours in each 24-hour period for a permit-holder only to ensure cars did not occupy parks for multiple days.
Existing permits would be cancelled and expressions of interest in the revised scheme would be advertised at the same time.
Mr Pickard's report said in the first tranche 100 permits would be issued to align with the existing number of spaces but if the level of interest significantly exceeded that the council would bring in an ''independent selector''.
An administration fee of $10 a year initially would be introduced, reviewable annually.
On leased car parks, Mr Pickard's report said Ballarat St's A, B and C parks accommodated about 100 leased parks, priced between $25 and $45 per month.
There were another 15 leased car parks, which cost $210.94 every quarter, in the Recreation Ground car park.
''This provision ... [impacts] on the public availability more [than car pooling parks] and will be reviewed in a separate report.''
