30 March 1999
To:Chairman and Members of the North York Community Council
From:Roberto Stopnicki
Director, Transportation Services - District 3
Subject:40 km/h Speed Zone: Scarsdale Avenue
North York Don Parkway
Purpose:
To introduce a 40 km/h speed zone on Scarsdale Avenue from York Mills Road to Bond
Avenue.
Source of funds:
All costs associated with the installation of the 40 km/h speed zone are included within the
1999 operating budget.
Recommendations:
It is recommended that By-Law #31878, of the former City of North York, be amended to
introduce a 40 km/h speed limit on Scarsdale Avenue from the southerly limit of York Mills
Road to the northerly limit of Bond Avenue.
Background:
Staff of the Transportation Services Division of the Works and Emergency Services
Department reviewed a request from staff of the Willow Wood School for the installation of
"School Zone" signing on Scarsdale Road, north and south of the school.
Currently, the speed limit on Scarsdale Avenue is 50 km/h. The roadway is comprised mainly
of industrial uses with the exception of the Hawthorn School for Girls, 101 Scarsdale Avenue,
and Willow Wood School, 55 Scarsdale Avenue. Both schools enrolment consist of school
age children from Junior Kindergarten to Grade 13 with a combined population of
approximately 330 students.
Discussion:
The former City of North York enacted a policy governing the installation of 40 km/h speed
limits. This policy indicated that reduced speed zones are to be installed on roadways that
either front or flank primary schools, or where a principal pedestrian access to a primary or
junior high school is via parkland which has frontage or flankage on a road where the
parkland actually is a continuation of the school property.
Accordingly, it is our analysis that Scarsdale Avenue meets the requirements of the 40 km/h
speed zone policy of the former City of North York.
Conclusions:
In view of the above, this division supports the enactment of the appropriate By-law to
designate the maximum rate of speed on Scarsdale Avenue as 40 km/h.
Contact Name:
Allen Pinkerton, Manager Traffic Operations - District 3
395-7463 (telephone)
395-7482 (facsimile)
ajpinker@city.north-york.on.ca (E-mail)
Roberto Stopnicki
Director, Transportation Services - District 3
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