City Council, at its regular meeting on September 22 and 23, 1997, gave consideration to Clause 1 contained in Report No. 8 of the Economic Development Committee, titled "Economic Benefits of the Dismantling of the Gardiner Expressway".
While considering this Clause, Council had before it a report (September 16, 1997) from the Task Force on the Lakeshore/Gardiner Corridor.
Council amended and adopted the Clause, and in so doing:
(1) Recommended that the Council of the new City of Toronto make the creation of a plan dealing with the Gardiner/Lakeshore Corridor a priority and create a broad based process to move the planning forward, including funding to ensure this work.
(2) Recommended that a Task Force on the Gardiner/Lakeshore Corridor, similar to the one presently in place at the City of Toronto, be created by the new City of Toronto, including appropriate staff support and an operating budget.
(3) Requested the new City of Toronto Council to ensure full public participation on the impact of dismantling of the Gardiner Expressway, by instituting full public meetings in the community east of Leslie Street.
(4) Reiterated the vital importance of the Lakeshore/Gardiner Corridor to the GTA's economy and request that every possible effort be made to ensure that traffic capacity not be lost in the transition period if and when the Gardiner Expressway is removed.
