Item - 2025.MM30.13

Councillor Mike Colle, seconded by Councillor Rachel Chernos Lin, recommends that:

1. City Council amend its previous decision on Item 2024.IE14.4 by deleting Parts 1.b. and 1.c.

Parts to be deleted:

1.b. Elm Ridge Drive from Newgate Road to the western limit of the Elm Ridge Drive Bridge, bi-directional cycle track; and

1.c. Marlee Avenue from Castlefield Avenue to Roselawn Avenue, cycle track, and Roselawn Avenue to Eglinton Avenue West, bi-directional cycle track.

2. City Council direct that the work on the Beltline Gap Connection project be paused and request the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, in consultation with the Executive Director, Development Review, to consider the project as part of a more comprehensive transportation and mobility plan included in the Growing Marlee-Glencairn Study.

On June 26-27, 2024, Council approved Item IE14.4 - Cycling Network Plan - 2024 Cycling Infrastructure and Missing Sidewalk Installation - Third Quarter Update.

This included the Beltline Gap Connection project.

Since the commencement of the Growing Marlee-Glencairn Study in August 2024, it has become apparent that the Beltline Gap Connection project and its plan to connect a short segment along Marlee Avenue from Roselawn Avenue to Eglinton Avenue West requires additional study and consideration as part of a more comprehensive transportation and mobility plan for the Marlee Avenue corridor and the larger Growing Marlee-Glencairn precinct with the substantial additional new growth and intensification coming this emerging new neighborhood.

REQUIRES RE-OPENING:

Requires a re-opening of Item 2024.IE14.4 (June 26 and 27, 2024, Council Meeting), only as it pertains to Parts 1.b. and 1.c. of the decision.