Item - 2025.TE24.40

The Director, Planning, Design and Management, Transportation Services recommends that:

1. City Council authorize the extension of the previous temporary full closure to all road users of Don Roadway, between Lake Shore Boulevard East and Commissioners Street, to December 31, 2025, inclusive, to allow for completion of the construction of the Don Roadway.

2. City Council authorize public highway designation for the lands set out in the tables in Attachment 4 to the report (June 19, 2025) from the Director, Planning, Design and Management, Transportation Services, to be dedicated in name as Don Roadway, Lake Shore Boulevard East, and Commissioners Street, to take effect on the date that the last of the interest in the lands set out in the tables in Attachment 4 to the report (June 19, 2025) from the Director, Planning, Design and Management, Transportation Services is conveyed to the City.

3. City Council amend City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 950, Traffic and Parking, for Don Roadway, generally as described in Attachment 5 to the report (June 19, 2025) from the Director, Planning Design and Management, Transportation Services, to take effect upon dedication of Don Roadway, in accordance with Recommendation 2 above. 

4. City Council authorize the permanent closure of Villiers Street, between a point 144 metres east of Munition Street to Don Roadway, as described in Parts 4-5 and 9-12 in Plan 66R-33606 and as outlined in the table in Attachment 6 to the staff report dated June 19, 2025 from Director, Planning Design and Management, Transportation Services.

5. City Council amend City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 950, Traffic and Parking, for Villiers Street, generally as described in Attachment 7 to the report (June 19, 2025) from the Director, Planning Design and Management, Transportation Services, to take effect upon dedication of Don Roadway, in accordance with Recommendation 4 above.

6. City Council authorize the appropriate City officials to take all steps necessary to implement the proposed dedications referred to in Recommendation 2, 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.

7. 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.

8. City Council authorize the appropriate City officials to submit directly to 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 (June 19, 2025) from the Director, Planning, Design and Management, Transportation Services, to, among other things, insert a specific effective date.

9. 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 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 General Manager, Transportation Services, in order to give effect to Recommendations 1 to 9, inclusive.

This report recommends the following property dedications as public highway, temporary road closures, and traffic by-law changes as the implementation of the Port Lands Flood Protection Project continues in 2025:

- Extension of previous temporary closure of Don Roadway for continued construction staging activities;

- Opening of reconstructed Don Roadway between Lake Shore Boulevard East and Commissioners Street, which is located on top of a new flood protection landform;

- Permanent closure of Villiers Street from east of Munition Street to Don Roadway, which will become part of adjacent new city parkland and river valley; and

- New interim cul-de-sac of Villiers Street, east of Don Roadway, as a result of the grade change of the flood protection landform.

There are no funding impacts to capital funding from this report.

Operations and maintenance of new permanent infrastructure to be assumed by the City (reconstructed Don Roadway) will be undertaken and funded by the City, in accordance with the January 22, 2024 Port Land Flood Protection (PLFP) Handover Protocol that has been established between Waterfront Toronto and the City.

Funding required for ongoing maintenance costs for the reconstructed Don Roadway, at time of handover from Waterfront Toronto would be included as part of future years’ operating budget submissions for Transportation Services.

In May 2023, City Council adopted item EX4.1 "Port Lands Flood Protection - Update", which approved, in principle, a funding strategy and preliminary costs related to the City's ongoing operations of new "unique infrastructure" elements within the Port Lands, including the flood protection landform under the Don Roadway.