Other Item Considered by the Committee
(a)Ontario Hydro Corridor Lands South Of Highway 401
(Ward 14 - Scarborough Wexford And Ward 15 Scarborough City Centre)
The Strategic Policies and Priorities Committee reports having:
(1)referred the Recommendations of the Budget Committee embodied in the following
communication to the Scarborough Community Council for review and
recommendations thereon;
(2)requested the Commissioner of Works and Emergency Services to submit a report
to the next meeting of the Scarborough Community Council on how this acquisition fits
in with the City's stated objective for pedestrian/bicycle paths in Scarborough, and on
whether the funds being requested could be better spent in Scarborough to achieve that
objective; and
(3)requested the Commissioner of Economic Development Culture and Tourism, in
consultation with the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, to submit a report to the
aforementioned meeting of the Scarborough Community Council, on the original intent
of the Beare Road landfill reserve:
(April 30, 1999) from the City Clerk, advising that the Budget Committee on April 30, 1999,
recommended to the Strategic Policies and Priorities Committee, and Council, the adoption of
the recommendations of the Corporate Services Committee embodied in the communication
(April 22, 1999) from the City Clerk, viz:
(1)the additional lands required to increase the developers 0.3 acres to one full acre be
purchased by the City from the developer, to be funded from the Beare Road Trust Fund; and
(2)consideration be given to fund portions of the Priority 2 and 3 lands north of
HighwayNo.401 in the three existing communities of Wishing Well and North and South
Bridlewood; and that this be funded on a proportional basis from the Beare Road Trust Fund,
subject to adding the following:
"that the costs associated with the purchase of the lands be no more than the balance in the
Beare Road Trust Fund."
Respectfully submitted,
MAYOR MEL LASTMAN,
Chair
Toronto, May 4, 1999
Patsy Morris
Tel. (416) 392-9151
