Item - 2019.TE9.78

The Toronto and East York Community Council:

1. Directed Transportation Services to report back to the November 5, 2019 Toronto and East York Community Council meeting on the feasibility of reducing the overnight on-street permit parking hours on Pelham Avenue, between Osler Street and Uxbridge Avenue from 12:01 a.m. to 9:00 a.m., 7 days a week to 12:01 a.m. to 8:00 a.m., 7 days a week. 
 

2. Directed the City Clerk to provide Public Notice to residents of Pelham Ave, between Osler Street and Uxbridge Avenue on the proposal to reduce the current permit parking operating hours of 12:01 to 9:00 a.m., 7 days a week to the new hours of 12:01 a.m. to 8:00 a.m., 7 days a week, in accordance with the provisions outlined in Toronto Municipal Code, Chapter 925, Permit Parking.

In June 2019, I received a petition from residents and business owners on Pelham Avenue requesting parking changes on that street.  According to business owners and residents, the demographics have changed and the lack of parking has been impacting clients and visitors that are trying to access the area.  The requested changes are: the removal of the existing 'no parking' regulation, which is in effect between, 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday to Friday, on the north side of Pelham Avenue, and the introduction of a one hour parking limit between, 8 a.m. and 6 p.m., Monday to Friday, on the north side of Pelham Avenue.  This change requires that permit parking operating hours end at 8 a.m. instead of 9 a.m.  In the event that permit parking operating hours are reduced, Public Notice is required, hence the purpose of this motion.