Coun. Holyday wants city to enforce three hour parking limit bylaw, citing need for “unencumbered street condition.” http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2017/gm/comm/communicationfile-68167.pdf
Stats from the Parking Enforcement Unit. Look at that jump in “habitual offenders towed.” So many scofflaws. http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2017/cc/bgrd/backgroundfile-103090.pdf (PDF)
(A habitual offender is vehicle with 3+ outstanding parking tickets, with no action taken for at least four months.)
Parking enforcement Unit issued 8,040 tickets for people parking in bike lanes in 2016, up 10.4%.
Coun. Cressy holds the item re: traffic signals at Richmond & Simcoe. Hopes to avoid prolonged debate.
Toronto City Council begins talking child care. Meeting quickly loses quorum.
Coun. Giorgio Mammoliti is lone vote against adopting Toronto’s Child Care Growth Strategy.
Toronto auditor general shows photo of her twenty-foot-long Excel spreadsheet on office floor.
New TransformTO climate change report imagines life in Toronto in 2050. http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2017/pe/bgrd/backgroundfile-103088.pdf (PDF)
TransformTO report imagines these potential future “car-free zones.” http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2017/pe/bgrd/backgroundfile-103151.pdf
“A three dimensional representation of the density of population and employment in 2050.” (via http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2017/pe/bgrd/backgroundfile-103151.pdf)
This TransformTO report is fascinating. You can find links to all 162 pages here: http://app.toronto.ca/tmmis/viewAgendaItemHistory.do?item=2017.PE19.4
Vehicle kilometres travelled per capita by zone, business as planned vs. low carbon scenarios.
Here’s the 2050 Toronto transit network assumed by the low carbon scenario. Also includes $20 downtown congestion charge.
City staff tell @TOinTransit lowering the speed limit in a school zone would mean removing school zone designation. https://www.insidetoronto.com/news-story/7261765-parents-fear-the-worst-if-traffic-speeds-not-reduced-on-avenue-road/
Coun. Wong-Tam’s motion to support ban on importing shark fins passes council 38-4.
Speaker: “Point of order, Councillor Mammoliti?” Coun. Mammoliti: “What does love have to do with this?”
Predicting Mayor John Tory’s reaction to this budget: 😒. A little 😱. Some 😠.
John Tory says Wynne and the provincial government “turned their backs” on the needs of the people of Toronto.
“You can’t play a highlights reel from last year and expect people to think you’re going to be on the ice for the next game,” says Tory.
“Without matching dollars from the province, the relief line cannot be built,” says Tory.
Mayor Tory moves a request to the feds that’d require the province to kick in for housing and transit. http://app.toronto.ca/tmmis/viewAgendaItemHistory.do?item=2017.MM28.52
Council debating holiday shopping bylaws. Coun. Lee has an odd motion to let all the big malls open on Canada Day 2017.
Lee’s amendment fails. Sorry patriots, you won’t be celebrating the Sesquicentennial at Sherway Gardens.
Now Toronto City Council will decide whether this one tree will LIVE or DIE. http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2017/ey/bgrd/backgroundfile-101936.pdf (PDF)
Coun. Holyday worries that council’s refusal to allow residents to chop down trees is leading people to lose confidence in government.
“This is not a debate about the merits of a tree,” says Coun. Campbell. “It’s a debate about property rights.” We’re getting philosophical.
Thus concludes the sixth largest government in Canada having a debate about the merits of a singular tree.
Council on to 28 Bathurst Street. Coun. Layton wants to turn it into a park. Coun. Minnan-Wong thinks city should sell it for $10 million.
