Item - 2020.TE18.84

The Toronto and East York Community Council:

1. Directed the Acting Director, Traffic Management, Transportation Services, to request the City Clerk to poll eligible householders on Cottingham Street, between Avenue Road and Gange Avenue, to determine whether residents support the installation of traffic calming, in accordance with the City of Toronto Traffic Calming Policy.

2. Subject to favourable results of the poll:

1. Authorized the installation of traffic calming (speed humps) on Cottingham Street, between Avenue Road and Gange Avenue; and
2. Directed the City Solicitor to prepare a by-law to alter sections of the roadway on Cottingham Street, between Avenue Road and Gange Avenue, to install four speed humps, generally as shown on the attached copy of Drawing No. 421G-3771, dated August 2020.

I am writing to you to request Community Council's support for a motion that is important to the constituents of the Toronto-St. Paul's ward, but one that could not be brought forward by staff due to the impacts of the pandemic on staff redeployments.

The residents of Cottingham Street approached my office last October with a petition for speed humps on the block of their street, between Avenue Road and Gange Avenue. We have recently received the findings of the study that was conducted by Traffic Operations that concluded that the requested blocks do not meet any of the three traffic calming criteria required for a staff recommendation. However, considering that Cottingham Junior Public School is located on the block between Gange Avenue and Oaklands Avenue and that it has not yet received the School Safety Zone treatment, I would like to give the community the opportunity to voice their interest in having speed humps through an official City poll. In conjunction with the eventual School Safety Zone treatment, speed humps here would ensure compliance with the 30 km/h speed limit and improve the safety of all road users there.

Traffic Operations staff have also been consulted on this and have provided assistance with the wording of the motion and needed design.