Request for Amendment to York By-law to Exempt

Disabled Persons from Parking Permit Fees

Ward 27, York Humber and Ward 28, York Eglinton

The York Community Council recommends that:

(1)the York By-law No. 3491-80, To Provide for Night-Time Parking of Motor Vehicles, be amended to allow for holders of disabled parking permits, to park overnight on the street without requiring an overnight parking permit, in order to be consistent with the parking by-law of the former City of Toronto; and

(2)the appropriate City officials be authorized and directed to take the appropriate action to give effect thereto.

The York Community Council submits the following communication (June 14, 1999) from Councillor Mihevc:

It has come to my attention that in the Toronto district, parking by-law permit vehicles with handicapped parking stickers to park overnight without an on-street parking permit.

In York, by contrast, owners of vehicles with handicapped parking permits have to obtain on-street parking permits to park on their streets. Without such permits, they are subject to receiving tickets, and indeed, a number of tickers have been issued recently.

I am aware that the new City of Toronto is in the process of reviewing its parking by-law. However, in the interim, and for the purpose of equity, and given the proximity of former York and Toronto civic areas, I would ask that the York by-law be amended to bring it into conformity with that of the former City of Toronto.