Item - 2025.TE19.1

The Toronto and East York Community Council recommends that:

1. City Council authorize public highway designation for the lands set out in Attachment 3 to the report (December 18, 2024) from the Director, Planning, Design and Management, Transportation Services, to be dedicated in name as Cherry Street, to take effect on the date that the last of the interest in lands identified in Attachment 3 to the report (December 18, 2024) from the Director, Planning, Design and Management, Transportation Services is conveyed to the City.

2. City Council authorize public highway designation for the lands set out in Attachment 5 to the report (December 18, 2024) from the Director, Planning, Design and Management, Transportation Services, to be dedicated in name as Commissioners Street, to take effect on the date that the last of the interest in lands identified in Attachment 5 to the report (December 18, 2024) from the Director, Planning, Design and Management, Transportation Services is conveyed to the City.

3. City Council authorize the extension of each of the previous temporary full closures to all road users of Villiers Street, between a point 144 metres east of Munition Street and Don Roadway, and of Villiers Street, between Don Roadway and Saulter Street, to December 31, 2025, inclusive, to allow for continued construction staging activities in the Port Lands.

4. City Council, having previously approved an exemption to Section 3.6 of the City's Street Naming Policy, approve the renaming of "New Cherry Street" between the Keating Channel and Commissioners Street to "Cherry Street".

5. City Council approve the renaming of a portion of "Cherry Street" between the Keating Channel and Commissioners Street to "Ookwemin Street".

6. City Council approve the renaming of a portion of "Cherry Street" between the Gardiner Expressway and the Keating Channel to "Lake Shore Boulevard East".

7. City Council approve the classification of Cherry Street between Lake Shore Boulevard East and Commissioners Street and Commissioners Street between Cherry Street and Ookwemin Street as Collector Roads in the City's Road Classification System.

8. City Council authorize the appropriate City officials to take all steps necessary to implement each of the proposed dedications referred to in Recommendations 1 and 2 above, including requesting the City Solicitor to prepare and submit the relevant Bills and to pay any costs necessary to register the resultant By-laws, if required.

9. City Council authorize the General Manager, Transportation Services, in issuing any requisite permits as delegated in Municipal Code Chapter 743, Streets and Sidewalks, Use of, to include additional permit terms as the General Manager, Transportation Services deems necessary and appropriate in the interim.

10. City Council authorize the appropriate City officials to submit directly to City Council at the appropriate time any necessary Bills to amend the City of Toronto Municipal Code, including City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 886, Footpaths, Pedestrian Ways, Bicycle Paths, Bicycle Lanes and Cycle Tracks, and City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 950, Traffic and Parking, to update references therein as a result of the renaming in Recommendations 4, 5 and 6 above.

11. City Council authorize the appropriate City officials to submit directly to City Council at the appropriate time any necessary Bills to amend the effective date of any dedication By-law(s) and/or traffic and parking regulation By-law(s) made in connection with the report (December 18, 2024) from the Director, Planning, Design and Management, Transportation Services, to, among other things, insert a specific effective date.

12. City Council authorize the City Solicitor to introduce the necessary Bills to give effect to City Council's decision, including the necessary Bills to amend City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 886, Footpaths, Pedestrian Ways, Bicycle Paths, Bicycle Lanes and Cycle Tracks, and City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 950, Traffic and Parking, and City Council authorize the City Solicitor to make any necessary clarifications, refinements, minor modifications, technical amendments, or By-law amendments as may be identified by the City Solicitor or the General Manager, Transportation Services, in order to give effect to Recommendations 1 to 11 above, inclusive.

This report recommends the following property dedications as public highway, temporary road closures, and renaming of streets required as implementation of the Port Lands Flood Protection Project progresses towards substantial completion at the end of 2024:

- Dedication of the remaining eastern portion of the Cherry Street right-of-way from south of Commissioners Street to just south of Polson Street that includes a short segment of public sidewalk and lands for a future transit right-of-way.

- Dedication of the remaining southern portion of the Commissioners Street right-of-way from Cherry Street to just east of Don Roadway that includes a new public sidewalk and lands for a future transit right-of-way.

- Extension of previous temporary closures of Villiers Street for continued construction staging activities until December 31, 2025.

- Renaming New Cherry Street between the Keating Channel to Commissioners Street to "Cherry Street".

- Renaming Cherry Street between the Keating Channel to Commissioners Street to "Ookwemin Street".

- Renaming a remnant portion of Cherry Street between the Gardiner Expressway and the Keating Channel to "Lake Shore Boulevard East".

- Classifying Cherry Street between Lake Shore Boulevard East and Commissioners Street and Commissioners Street between Cherry Street and Ookwemin Street as Collector Roads in the City's Road Classification System.