Item - 2024.EC17.8

The Economic and Community Development Committee recommends that:

1. City Council designate, based on the poll results respecting the intention to designate the Cedarbrae Markham Lawrence Village Business Improvement Area, the area described by Attachment 1 to the report (November 12, 2024) from the General Manager, Economic Development and Culture, as the Cedarbrae Markham Lawrence Village Business Improvement Area, under the Toronto Municipal Code, Chapter 19, Business Improvement Areas.

2. City Council direct the City Solicitor to submit a by-law to designate the area described in Attachment 1 to the report (November 12, 2024) from the General Manager, Economic Development and Culture, as the Cedarbrae Markham Lawrence Village Business Improvement Area.

3. City Council approve those amendments necessary to Schedule A of the Toronto Municipal Code, Chapter 19, Business Improvement Areas, to include the Cedarbrae Markham Lawrence Village Business Improvement Area.

The purpose of this report is to recommend that the area shown in Attachment 1 be designated as the Cedarbrae Markham Lawrence Village Business Improvement Area.

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 Cedarbrae Markham Lawrence Village Business Improvement Area. The proposed Business Improvement Area is the area along Lawrence Avenue East bounded by Bellamy Road to the west, Greenholm Court to the east, Markham Road from Lawrence to the south and Painted Post Drive to the north.

The City received the required benchmark number of ballots to validate the poll and the majority of accepted ballots were in favour of establishing a Business Improvement Area.  Accordingly, it is recommended that City Council pass a by-law to designate the area described in Attachment 1 as the Cedarbrae Markham Lawrence Village Business Improvement Area. Subject to Council's approval, this will be the City's eighty-fifth Business Improvement Area.