Item - 2016.PW17.5

The Public Works and Infrastructure Committee recommends that:

1. City Council endorse the recommendations included in the Rean Drive to Kenaston Gardens Environmental Assessment (Rean-Kenaston EA) Study, including a new east-west street from Rean Drive to Kenaston Gardens, as generally shown in Attachment 1 in the report (November 3, 2016) from the Acting General Manager, Transportation Services. 

2. City Council authorize the Acting General Manager, Transportation Services to issue a Notice of Completion and file the Rean Drive to Kenaston Gardens Environmental Assessment in the public record for a minimum 30 days, in accordance with the requirements of the Municipal Class EA.

3. City Council direct the Chief Financial Officer, in consultation with the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning and the General Manager, Transportation Services, to develop a financial strategy that aims to fund the implementation of the new east-west street between Rean Drive and Kenaston Gardens from development-related fees and charges.

Transportation Services has carried out a Schedule 'B' Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (EA) study to identify a preferred solution for a new east-west street between Rean Drive and Kenaston Gardens located southeast of the Bayview Avenue and Sheppard Avenue East intersection. The new east-west street will improve pedestrian connections, create smaller block sizes and provide additional frontage opportunities for street-oriented buildings.

Based on a comprehensive evaluation of the alternatives, staff recommend that the existing road that extends between Barberry Place and Rean Drive be reconstructed to City standards and that a new street be extended westerly from Kenaston Gardens to Barberry Place.

The new east-west street will have a right-of-way of varying width that accommodates a paved surface of 8.5 m, sidewalks on both sides of the street and grassed boulevard space. The new street will extend approximately 200 metres from Kenaston Gardens in the west to Rean Drive in the east, with a two-way stop-controlled intersection at Barberry Place.