Requirements for automobile and bike parking in newly erected or enlarged buildings are identified in the city-wide Zoning By-law 569-2013. On January 19, 2021, Planning and Housing Committee (PH20.4) asked staff to review these requirements to better align them with the objectives of the City’s Official Plan. The Review is guided by the principle that parking standards should allow only the maximum amount of automobile parking reasonably required for a given use and minimums should be avoided except where necessary to ensure equitable access, such as for accessible parking or in areas which would be difficult to serve with transit.
The initial phase of the review focused on automobile and bicycle parking has concluded. New regulations related to automobile parking came into force on February 3, 2022 and new regulations related to bicycle parking came into force on July 22, 2022.
Following the conclusion of the initial phase, Planning and Housing Committee directed staff to continue work on the review of parking requirements in the Zoning By-law as part of the City-Wide Parking Strategy, which includes:
The work on accessible and bicycle parking requirements is currently underway, in response to an increasing demand for bicycle parking, growing interest in the impact on housing affordability and travel behaviour, and the importance of providing appropriate accessible parking spaces.
The intent of the parking monitoring program is to collect and aggregate data from a variety of data sources and routinely look for insights across related datasets to better assess the City’s parking needs and the impacts of various parking related policy changes in different contexts across the city. Planning and Housing Committee asked staff to report back in Q1 2024 with an assessment of the provision of visitor parking in recent development applications and any proposed amendments to the Zoning By-law that may be warranted.
Staff is using feedback received to develop draft proposals to amend the Zoning By-law. These draft proposals will be presented to the public at a series of public meetings in Q1 of 2024.
The City hosted a series of virtual public meetings to gather feedback to inform recommendations for revised Zoning By-law standards of accessible parking and bicycle parking. These sessions were held on November 20-21, 2023 and covered the topics of Accessible Parking and Bicycle Parking.
The City hosted a series of virtual community meetings on September 27, 28 and 29 to gather feedback to inform refinements to draft parking standard changes. The presentation from the community meetings is available for viewing. Also available are a comparison of the existing ZBL 569-2013 parking rates with the draft proposed new rates and a comparison of the parking required under these two rate structures for example developments.
Recordings of the meetings are also available below:
September 27, 2021 Public Meeting
September 28, 2021 Public Meeting
September 29, 2021 Public Meeting
The City hosted a series of virtual community meetings on June 1, 2 and 3 to gather feedback to inform recommendations for revised parking standards. The presentation from the community meetings is available for viewing.
Recordings of the meetings are also available below:
June 1, 2021 Public Meeting
June 2, 2021 Public Meeting
June 3, 2021 Public Meeting
On December 15, 2021 City Council adopted PH29.3 Recommended Parking Requirements for New Development with amendments. This included new regulations related to vehicle and bicycle parking in new development. The new regulations related to automobile parking came into force on February 3, 2022 and new regulations related to bicycle parking came into force on July 22, 2022.
On January 19, 2021 Planning and Housing Committee adopted PH20.4 Proposed Review of Parking Requirements for New Development.
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