Item - 2020.TE20.49

The Toronto and East York Community Counci:

1. Amended Schedule A of City of Toronto Municipal Code, Chapter 925, Permit Parking, to incorporate the west side of Sousa Mendes Street, between Ruskin Avenue and Wallace Avenue, as part of area 1A, under the operating hours of 12:00 midnight to 7:00 a.m., 7 days a week.  

At its meeting of September 30, 2020, City Council approved an exemption for the implementation of permit parking on Sousa Mendes Street, between Ruskin Avenue and Wallace Avenue from the requirements of subsection 925-4B of City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 925, Permit Parking.

City Council Decision

http://app.toronto.ca/tmmis/viewAgendaItemHistory.do?item=2020.TE18.91

Subsection 925-4B, 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

Sousa Mendes Street, between Ruskin Avenue and Wallace Avenue is presently not licensed for permit parking. Adding this block of Sousa Mendes Street to the permit parking program would allow residents to obtain a residential on-street parking permit and provide them with the ability to legally park overnight. For these reasons, I am recommending as follows.