| Comment | Building it underground is extremely expensive. Not impossible, but the cost is such that it only really makes sense if you're selling the apartments or renting them out at a highly inflated rate, in order to recoup the added costs.
To build 300 parking spaces underground would be a phenomenal cost addition to the project. It's not as easy as just digging out a hollow space for that many vehicles and adding the building on top: you need to consider the massing of the building, utilities, etc. It could certainly be done, but at great cost and complication.
The basic thing everyone needs to remember though is that 300 cars parked = 300 cars travelling round the streets of Shawlands, which is fundamentally against the city's current objectives of reducing congestion and other negative externalities presented by vehicles in residential neighbourhoods. The roads are also major bus routes. Adding another 300 cars at a minimum to these streets is not a priority. |
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