There are some who might claim Rockdale Plaza is the true CBD, not the assortment of dollar, discount, pawnbroker, key cutting and charity stores on the traffic light and clearway-affected highway.
The York Street car park ‘‘idle space’’will be crucial to the proposed new library, as it is for daily council business, and can’t simply be sold off.
There is limited need for parking at the timed Chapel Street car park, the main beneficiary is the RSL, unless officials prefer all-day parking for physically-challenged commuters in exchange for votes. Council could simply require a fixed number of public car spaces to be set aside in any new development, as a section 94 contribution, unless the state decides otherwise. The near complete Rocky Point Road Superbarn/residential units about-face is testament to the preference of residential over commercial building. Any pretence of a Rockdale CBD was lost with jet aircraft, clearways, all-station train travel and urban planning-developer partnerships.
