McCaul Street, East Side, from Elm Street to a Point 43.0 Metres

North - Provision of Additional Parking Meters (Downtown)

The Toronto Community Council recommends the adoption of the following report (May 4, 1998) from the Director, Infrastructure Planning and Transportation, City Works Services:

Purpose:

The intent of this proposal is to increase parking opportunity on McCaul Street.

Funding Sources, Financial Implications and Impact Statement:

The estimated cost of purchasing and installing the additional parking meters is $6,000.00 which can be accommodated in The Parking Authority of Toronto's 1998 Operating Budget.

Recommendations:

(1) That the parking prohibition at anytime on the east side of McCaul Street, from Elm Street to a point 134.0 metres north, be rescinded;

(2) That parking be prohibited at anytime on the east side of McCaul Street from a point 43.0 meters north of Elm Street to a point 91.0 metres further north;

(3) That parking meters be installed on the east side of McCaul Street, from Elm Street to a point 43.0 metres north to operate from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Monday to Saturday, for a maximum period of one hour, at a rate of $1.00 per hour;

(4) That the parking meter operational hours on McCaul Street, from College Street to Dundas Street West be adjusted:

a) on the east side from 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Monday to Friday and from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Saturday, to apply from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Monday to Saturday;

b) on the west side from 9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Monday to Friday and from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Saturday, to apply from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Monday to Saturday; and

(5) That the appropriate City Officials be requested to take whatever action is necessary to give effect to the foregoing, including the introduction in Council of any Bills that are required.

Comments:

At the request of area business proprietors and in consultation with Downtown Councillor Olivia Chow, Works staff have reviewed installing additional parking meters on the east side of McCaul Street from Elm Street to Baldwin Street to increase parking opportunity in this neighbourhood for patrons of nearby businesses and residential permit parkers.

McCaul Street, from College Street to Dundas Street West operates two-way on a pavement width of about 11.0 metres. Parking is currently allowed at metered parking spaces for a maximum period of one hour from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Monday to Saturday on both sides of the street. Parking is otherwise allowed for a maximum period of three hours, except from 12:01 a.m. to 7:00 a.m., daily when permit parking regulations apply.

A recent site investigation by staff of City Works Services has revealed that vehicles frequently park on the east side of McCaul Street, from Elm Street to a point 134.0 metres north (where parking is currently prohibited at anytime), often occupying most of the available curb area. This situation does not adversely affect traffic operation on McCaul Street between Elm Street and Baldwin Street (43 metres north of Elm Street) but does have an adverse impact on delivery operations at Silverstein's Bakery (Premises No. 193 McCaul Street), from a point 43.0 metres north of Elm Street to a point 91 metres further north, where vans often stop to load/off-load merchandise or enter off-street loading bays at the bakery.

Based on this assessment, parking could be permitted on the east side of McCaul Street between Elm Street and a point 43.0 metres north and in combination therewith, six parking meters should be installed to operate in conjunction with the parking meters currently installed elsewhere on McCaul Street from Dundas Street West to College Street.

It was noted during our review that the current parking meter operational hours indicated in Chapter 400 of the City of Toronto Municipal Code do not reflect the actual hours of parking meter operation on McCaul Street. To rectify this situation, the recommendations above include a "housekeeping" amendment to the operational hours of the parking meters to include the rush hour periods from Monday to Friday, which should have been amended when the stopping prohibitions during the morning and afternoon rush hour periods were rescinded earlier this year on McCaul Street from Dundas Street West to College Street (Clause No. 35 in Toronto Community Council Report No. 2, By-law No. 105-1998, City Council meeting of March 6, 1998).

Contact Name and Telephone Number:

Curt Russell, 392-7771