Item - 2020.EC14.1

The Economic and Community Development Committee recommends that:

1.  City Council designate, based on the poll results respecting the intention to designate the Lawrence Ingram Keele Business Improvement Area, the area outlined in Attachment 1 to the report (July 6, 2020) from the General Manager, Economic Development and Culture, as the Lawrence Ingram Keele Business Improvement Area, under the City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 19, Business Improvement Areas.

2.  City Council direct the City Solicitor to submit a By-law to designate the area outlined in Attachment 1 to the report (July 6, 2020) from the General Manager, Economic Development and Culture, as the Lawrence Ingram Keele Business Improvement Area.

3.  City Council amend Schedule A of the City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 19, Business Improvement Areas, to include the Lawrence Ingram Keele Business Improvement Area.

The purpose of this report is to recommend that the area shown in Attachment 1 be designated as the Lawrence Ingram Keele Business Improvement Area (BIA).

In accordance with the Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 19, Business Improvement Areas, the City Clerk conducted a poll to determine if there is sufficient support to designate the area as the Lawrence Ingram Keele BIA. The area is generally bounded by Lawrence Avenue West to the north, Keele Street to the west, Strathnairn Avenue/Woodborough Avenue to the south and the rail track to the east.

The City received a sufficient number of ballots to validate the poll and the majority of accepted ballots were in favour of establishing a BIA. Accordingly, it is recommended that City Council pass a By-law to designate the area outlined in Attachment 1 as the Lawrence Ingram Keele BIA. Subject to Council's approval, this will be the City's eighty-fourth BIA.