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A plan to ban car parking on Acland Street in St Kilda and turn its southern end into an open air plaza, closed to traffic, will be voted on by Port Phillip City Council in December.

An artist's impression of the proposed Acland Street transformation.

The proposed street makeover will make the popular tourist strip more walkable, with more space for outdoor eating, drinking and events, but with the loss of about 50 on-street parking spaces.

Route 96, Melbourne's busiest tram route, will be shortened by one stop to accommodate the new public square, and the tram tracks sunk below ground level so that a new tram platform stop at the end of the line sits level with the footpath. The terminus will be widened to fit two trams side by side.