Item - 2014.ED31.8

The Economic Development Committee recommends that:

1.         City Council designate, based on the poll results respecting the intention to designate Ossington Avenue Business Improvement Area (BIA), the area described by Attachment  No. 1 to the report (May 8, 2014) from the General Manager, Economic Development and Culture, as the Ossington Avenue Business Improvement Area (BIA), under Chapter 19 of the Toronto Municipal Code.

2.         City Council direct the City Solicitor to submit a by-law to designate the area described in Attachment No. 1 in this report as the Ossington Avenue Business Improvement Area.

3.         City Council approve those amendments necessary to Schedule "A" of Municipal Code Chapter 19, Business Improvement Areas, to include the Ossington Avenue Business Improvement Area (BIA).

The purpose of this report is to recommend that the area shown on Attachment No. 1 be designated as the Ossington Avenue Business Improvement Area (BIA).  This will be the City's seventy-eighth BIA.

In accordance with Chapter 19 of the City of Toronto Municipal Code ("Chapter 19"), the City Clerk conducted a poll to determine if there is sufficient support to designate Ossington Avenue, between Queen Street West and Dundas Street West, as a BIA.

The City received a sufficient number of ballots to validate the poll and the majority of accepted ballots were in favour of establishing a BIA.  Accordingly, it is recommended that City Council pass a by-law to designate the area described by the map in Attachment No. 1 as the Ossington Avenue Business Improvement Area (BIA).  Subject to Council's approval, this will be the City's seventy-eighth BIA.