Item - 2021.TE23.89

The Toronto and East York Community Council:

1. Exempted the implementation of Permit Parking on Queensdale Avenue, between Glebemount Avenue and Woodbine Avenue 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 this location.

Currently Queensdale Avenue from Glebemount to Woodbine is not zoned for permit parking and cars parked for longer than 3 hours may be ticketed. I have heard concerns from residents on the street about a shortage of available parking spaces and growing frustration about receiving tickets. Adding permit parking on this block of Queensdale Avenue would allow residents to apply for a residential on-street parking permit and provide them with the ability to legally park on the street during the day and overnight. Due to ongoing COVID-19 response, the City’s Polling Unit continues to experience delays and a significant backlog. This motion exempts the implementation from the polling requirement based on outreach that has been conducted with residents on the street and provides direction to proceed with enacting permit parking for the above noted areas.

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

I am seeking an exemption from the requirements of subsection 925-4B of City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 925, Permit Parking as the residents that did vote, were in favour of implementing the permit parking program.