Item - 2020.EC17.10

The Economic and Community Development Committee recommends that:

1.  City Council designate, based on the poll results respecting the intention to designate the Willowdale Business Improvement Area, the area outlined in Attachment 1 to the report (October 27, 2020) from the General Manager, Economic Development and Culture, as the Willowdale 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 (October 27, 2020) from the General Manager, Economic Development and Culture, as the Willowdale Business Improvement Area.

3.  City Council amend Schedule A of the City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 19, Business Improvement Areas, as necessary, to include the Willowdale Business Improvement Area.

The purpose of this report is to recommend that the area shown in Attachment 1 be designated as the Willowdale 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 Willowdale BIA. The area is generally bounded by Bishop Avenue south to Highway 401, and generally Doris Avenue west to Beecroft Avenue.

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 described in Attachment 1 as the Willowdale BIA. Subject to Council's approval, this will be the City's eighty-fifth BIA.