Item - 2020.TE12.61

The Toronto and East York Community Council recommends that:

1. City Council exempt the implementation of permit parking on Little Norway Crescent from the requirements of subsection 925-4B of City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 925, Permit Parking, until such time as Toronto and East York Community Council considers a request for implementation of permit parking at that location. 

The Toronto and East York Community Council approved implementation of Permit Parking on Little Norway Crescent for the hours of 7:00p.m. to 7:00a.m.

Little Norway Crescent is located in the Bathurst Quay Neighbourhood along the City's Waterfront. The street runs along Little Norway Park and is home to Windward Co-operative Housing. The current parking regulations on the street allow for 3 hour unassigned parking and often times it is difficult for residents to benefit from the spaces due to the high traffic and demand for parking due to the proximity to the Billy Bishop Airport.

My office is in receipt of a petition signed by residents of Little Norway Crescent for the implementation of Permit Parking from the hours of 7pm-7am on a street name basis.  This is a local roadway, located at the southern end of Bathurst Street just south of Lakeshore Boulevard east.  The properties located on this street comprise of a mix of low and high density residential units.  My office has worked with the community for some time now and it's obvious to me that there is a need to organize street parking to accommodate resident's long term parking needs.  Normally a permit parking poll would be conducted, however due to the pressing need to provide immediate relief from tagging of vehicles by Parking Enforcement Officers I'm requesting exemption from the polling requirements of subsection 925-4B of City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 925.

Subsection 925-4B of City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 925, Permit Parking, provides that:

Where permit parking is not currently available and where a petition requesting permit parking signed by the residents of a minimum of 25% of the total number of residential premises having a residential address on the street or the flank of the street is submitted to the General Manager, a poll shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter 190, Polling and Notification, to determine if the residents wish to have permit parking on their road or area, as the case may be. In the event of a positive polling result, the General Manager shall report such result to the appropriate community council, which community council under delegated authority, shall be authorized to pass any necessary by-laws to implement permit parking on the road or area. In the event of a negative result, permit parking shall not be extended to the road or area, and no further permit parking poll shall be conducted for a period of two years.