11.REQUEST FOR 24 HOUR PERMIT PARKING ON BATAVIA AVENUE

WARD 27, YORK-HUMBER.

Commissioner Operations Services, York Civic Service Centre

(May 13, 1998)

 Purpose:

 Batavia Avenue residents, by petition (Appendix I) through Councillor Frances Nunziata=s office, are requesting implementation 24 hour on-street permit parking.

 Funding Sources, Financial Implications and Impact Statement:

 Traffic budget.

 Recommendations:

 That, the Uniform Traffic By-law 2958-94 be amended to rescind the daytime no parking prohibition during the hours 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, on Batavia Avenue between St. Clair Avenue West and Pritchard Avenue.

 Council Reference/Background History:

 Councillor Frances Nunziata, by memo dated April 27, 1998, is requesting a report on the feasibility of providing 24 hour on-street permit parking on Batavia Avenue.

 Comments and/or Discussion and/or Justification:

 Batavia 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 legally alternates from the west to the east sides of Batavia Avenue between St. Clair Avenue West to Pritchard Avenue, during the months April through November. During the winter months December through to March an exclusive one side parking regulation is in effect on the east side of the street.

 There is currently a daytime parking prohibition on Batavia Avenue, during the hours 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, with a maximum unsigned three (3) hour parking limit for all other times, except during the hours 12:00 midnight to 6:00 a.m. when an exclusive on-street permit parking regulation is in effect, for any vehicle displaying a valid on-street permit stating Batavia 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 residents request to rescind the current daytime no parking prohibition on Batavia Avenue between St. Clair Avenue West and Pritchard Avenue.

Conclusions:

 A review of the petition reveals a total of twenty-six (26) municipally addressed residences are requesting the service. For Committee=s information there is a total of fifty-three (53) municipally addressed properties on Batavia Avenue between St. Clair Avenue West and Pritchard Avenue. The petition represents 49% of the total number of municipally addressed properties on the street.

 On-street parking is a service benefit for every municipally addressed taxpayer, without adequate off-street parking facilities. We, therefore, support and recommend rescinding the daytime no parking prohibition on Batavia Avenue between St. Clair Avenue West and Pritchard Avenue.

 Contact Person:

 Stephen C. Brown

Manager Traffic/Parking

394-2655

394-2888 (fax)

 (A copy of Appendix I referred to in the foregoing report, was forwarded to all Members of Council with the agenda of the York Community Council meeting of May 27, 1998, and a copy thereof is on file in the Clerk's Department, York Civic Service Centre.)