ORANGE City Council will repeat its offer to build 77 parking spaces at Orange Health Service, saying requests to monitor timed parking limits will not solve the overall parking shortage.
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Orange Health Council chairman Richard Jane wrote to the council in December, asking it to send parking rangers to encourage more traffic circulation in three of the Bloomfield campus' eight main parking areas.
Deputy mayor Chris Gryllis had unsuccessfully moved a similar motion in October last year and when he asked for a six-month trial on Tuesday night, his fellow councillors had not changed their opinion.
Instead, they voted to write to Health Minister Jillian Skinner reiterating a previous offer to contribute half the $300,000 cost of concreting 77 spaces along the golf course to ease the pressure on the front car parks and compensate for the illegal spaces lost along Forest Road once upgrade work starts, including traffic lights.
They also asked for the health service to complete a master plan for the infrastructure on site.
The health service had originally knocked the extra spaces back due to maintenance concerns.
Councillor Jeff Whitton questioned where people would go if time limits were introduced.
"They're not shopping or playing golf or going to the bowling club - they're either coming in for treatment, visiting loved ones or they work there and the reason they haven't left is they haven't finished what they're doing," he said.
Councillor Ron Gander agreed.
"Do these people have to die on time because of the parking police?" he said.
"It's brutal, it's ruthless and it's absolutely stupid."
Councillor Glenn Taylor said the only solution was more spaces.
"And it's up to the state government to do that," he said.
"No amount of fines will fix the problem."
However Cr Gryllis said it was important to at least trial monitoring and it would be a large expense to the council.
"If we try it for six months, we can say, 'we've done what you requested us to do, what are you doing about it? Nothing'," he said.
The NSW Office of Environment and Heritage has approved a development application to upgrade the campus' internal road network.
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