April 22, 1999
To: Kyle Rae, Chair and Members of the Toronto Community Council
Dear Councillor Rae:
RE: DRIVEWAY WIDENING AT 53 LAWRENCE AVENUE WEST - 2 SPACES
RECOMMENDATION:
That the Toronto Community Council recommend that the request for driveway widening at 53 Lawrence Avenue
West be approved for two spaces from the present one, subject to the applicant entering into an agreement with the
City and paying all applicable fees.
On behalf of Mr. and Mrs. Sutulov, I am requesting an exemption to the City of Toronto Municipal Code to permit
driveway widening for 2 automobiles. This request is made for the following reasons:
Both Mr. and Mrs. Sutulov run their business out of their home. Each requires their own automobile but there is only one
off street parking space. Street permit parking is not available, as Lawrence Avenue West is a four lane arterial road.
Mr. and Mrs. Sutulov mutual drive between the 2 adjacent houses is not wide enough for an automobile to pass through
(2.28 metres wide). That is why driveway was approved for one automobile several years ago.
With the rebuilding of their parking area, Mr. and Mrs. Sutulov propose to resurface the parking area with turfstone pavers
which allow for drainage, within each paver, thereby increasing the porous area for drainage from the present 42.75% of the
front yard to 46.70% of the front yard.
A permit was issued several years ago by City staff for a second driveway widened parking space but the work was not
done. In 1996, City policy changed and when Mr. and Mrs. Sutulov requested permission to widen the parking area for two
cars, it was refused.
Mr. Aleksej Sutulov's has poor health, and needs his automobile to be productive and there just aren't any other places for
the two to park both cars.
Since there is ample room to park a second car on the front of the property, there is no permit parking available on this
arterial road and there are numerous reasons listed above that illustrate merit for this application to grant a second off street
parking space, I therefore ask the Toronto Community Council to adopt the above-noted recommendation to enable the
owners of 53 Lawrence Avenue West to proceed with their application for driveway widening.
Yours sincerely,
Michael Walker
Councillor - North Toronto
