7.MARIPOSA AVENUE BETWEEN ST. CLAIR AVENUE WEST AND PRITCHARD AVENUE - PETITION SUPPORTING IMPLEMENTATION OF

ON-STREET PERMIT PARKING WARD 27, YORK-HUMBER.

 Commissioner Operations Services, York Civic Service Centre

(April 16, 1998)

 Purpose:

 Mariposa Avenue residents, by petition (Appendix I) through Councillor Frances Nunziata=s office, are requesting implementation on-street permit parking.

 Funding Sources, Financial Implications and Impact Statement:

 Traffic budget.

 Recommendations:

 That By-law 3491-80 be amended to introduce on-street permit parking on Mariposa Avenue between St. Clair Avenue West and Pritchard Avenue.

 Council Reference/Background History:

 Councillor Frances Nunziata, by memo dated April 9, 1998, is requesting a report on the feasibility of implementing on-street permit parking on Mariposa Avenue.

 Comments and/or Discussion and/or Justification:

 Mariposa Avenue traverses in a north/south direction, between St. Clair Avenue West and Pritchard Avenue, providing two-way vehicular traffic flow.

 Currently on-street parking on Mariposa Avenue is legally permitted on the east side, exclusively. The parking duration is a maximum unsigned three (3) hour limit anytime.

 Field surveys reveal there is a total complement of thirty-five (35) curbside parking spaces available on the east side of Mariposa Avenue.

 On-street permit parking provides those residents without adequate off-street parking facilities to legally park their vehicles on the streets on which they reside for extended periods of time, with impunity from the signed and unsigned parking regulations.

 We, therefore, support the introduction of on-street permit parking on Mariposa Avenue between St. Clair Avenue West and Pritchard Avenue.

 Conclusions:

 A review of the petition reveals a total of seventeen (17) municipally addressed residences are requesting the service. For Committee=s information there is a total of twenty-seven (27) municipally addressed properties on Mariposa Avenue between St. Clair Avenue West and Pritchard Avenue. The petition represents 63% of the total number of municipally addressed properties on the street.

 On-street permit parking is a service benefit for every municipally addressed taxpayer, without adequate off-street parking facilities. We, therefore, support and recommend the implementation of on-street permit parking on Mariposa Avenue between St. Clair Avenue West and Pritchard Avenue.

 Contact Person:

 Stephen C. Brown

Manager Traffic/Parking

394-2655

394-2888 (fax)

 Councillor Frances Nunziata, Ward 27, York-Humber

(April 9, 1998)

 I have received a petition from residents on Mariposa Avenue who would like to have

on-street permit parking on their street.

 Residents report that theirs is the only street in their immediate area that does not have

on-street parking permits.

 Please place this item on the agenda for resolution on May 6, 1998.

 Thank you.

 (The above-mentioned petition is on file in the Clerk's Office, York Civic Service Centre.)