21.PERMIT PARKING ON FELTHAM AVENUE, Ward 27, York-Humber.

Commissioner, Operations Services, York Civic Centre

(July 31, 1998)

Purpose:

Councillor Frances Nunziata is requesting a report on the feasibility of implementing on-street permit parking on Feltham Avenue.

Funding Sources, Financial Implications and Impact Statement:

Traffic budget.

Recommendations:

That, By-law 3491-80 be amended to introduce on-street permit parking on Feltham Avenue between Spears Street and Avon Avenue.

Council Reference/Background History:

Local residents by petition (Appendix I), through Councillor Frances Nunziata's office are requesting the introduction of on-street permit parking on Feltham Avenue between Spears Street and Avon Avenue.

Comments and/or Discussion and/or Justification:

Feltham Avenue traverses in an east/west direction, between Spears Street and Avon Avenue, providing two-way vehicular traffic flow.

Currently on-street parking on Feltham Avenue between Spears Street and Avon Avenue is legally permitted on the north side, exclusively. The parking duration is an unsigned maximum three (3) hour limit, anytime.

Field surveys reveal there is a total complement of twenty-two (22) curbside parking spaces available on the north side of Feltham Avenue between Spears Street and Avon 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 Feltham Avenue between Spears Street and Avon Avenue.

Conclusions:

A review of the petition reveals a total of twenty municipally addressed residences are requesting the service. For Committee's information there is a total of twenty-nine (29) fronting and flanking addresses on Feltham Avenue between Spears Street and Avon Avenue. The petition represents 69% of the total number of properties fronting and flanking Feltham Avenue between Spears Street and Avon Avenue.

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 Feltham Avenue between Spears Street and Avon Avenue.

Contact Person:

Stephen C. Brown

Manager Traffic/Parking

394-2655

394-2888 (fax)

(A copy of Appendix 1 referred to in the foregoing report, was forwarded to all Members of Council with the agenda of the York Community Council meeting of September 16, 1998 and a copy thereof is on file in the Clerk's Department, York Civic Centre.)