00:00Each day, Sally McRae struggles to park her car as her street is full.
00:07People actually fight for room in this street to get a park.
00:11She has a garage, but it's too small.
00:14Because of my disability, I don't have the room to open my door to get out.
00:20The South Australian Government wants to make garages bigger and move cars off streets.
00:26There's no point in having garages in homes where people can't drive their car into the
00:30garage or can't open the door in it.
00:33Properties with one bedroom would require one garage space, while those with two or
00:38more would have to have at least two off-street vehicle spaces.
00:42Garage sizes will grow by about half a metre in length and width to 3.5 metres by 6 metres,
00:48with garage doors at least 3 metres wide.
00:51But there could be exceptions in places like the CBD or high-density suburban developments
00:56where there's public transport routes.
00:58To be excluded, developers would need to pay an offset fee of $45,000 in the CBD, $35,000
01:04in metropolitan Adelaide and $25,000 in Greater Adelaide, with the money to be invested in
01:10a vehicle parking fund.
01:12But there's concerns about costs from the building industry.
01:16We're in the middle of a housing shortage.
01:18Housing crisis is becoming increasingly unaffordable and this is an additional cost that ultimately
01:23is going to be borne by the consumer at a time when we're desperate to build more homes.
01:26And at the moment people who are buying a home at a high price can't even fit their
01:30car through the garage because it isn't wide enough.
01:34So that's what we've got to get the balance right for.
01:36A need to balance costs and access.
