Item - 2025.IE25.14
Tracking Status
- This item was considered by Infrastructure and Environment Committee on October 29, 2025. The Infrastructure and Environment Committee has referred this item to an official or other body without making a decision. Consult the text of the decision for further information on the referral.
IE25.14 - Ward 11 - Parking Pad Guidance for Existing Impermeable Sites
- Decision Type:
- ACTION
- Status:
- Referred
- Ward:
- 11 - University - Rosedale
Committee Decision
The Infrastructure and Environment Committee:
1. Referred item IE25.14 to the General Manager, Transportation Services for consideration.
Origin
Summary
There is a moratorium on parking pads in Ward 11 because of their multiple adverse effects upon sidewalk safety, stormwater runoff, tree health, public parking supply, soft landscaping requirements etc. However, the Ward Councillor has received several requests for exceptions for special cases that are claimed not to worsen these problems, e.g. because the proposed pad has been used for vehicle parking continuously since before the moratorium was instituted, and / or because the affected area is already impermeable and groundwater infiltration is proposed to be increased through the use of permanently permeable pavement. It would be helpful to have clear principles to guide decisions on these special cases.
Background Information
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2025/ie/bgrd/backgroundfile-259667.pdf
Communications
Motions
That Infrastructure and Environment Committee refer item IE25.14 to the General Manager, Transportation Services for consideration.