Item - 2019.EC8.11

The Economic and Community Development Committee recommends that:

1.  City Council designate, based on the poll results respecting the intention to designate the Rogers Road Business Improvement Area, the area described by Attachment 1 to the report (September 26, 2019) from the General Manager, Economic Development and Culture as the Rogers Road Business Improvement Area, under the Toronto Municipal Code, Chapter 19, Business Improvement Areas.

2.  City Council direct the City Solicitor to submit a by-law to designate the area described in Attachment 1 to the report (September 26, 2019) from the General Manager, Economic Development and Culture, as the Rogers Road Business Improvement Area.

3.  City Council approve those amendments necessary to Schedule "A" of the Toronto Municipal Code, Chapter 19, Business Improvement Areas, to include the Rogers Road Business Improvement Area.

The purpose of this report is to recommend that the area shown in Attachment No.1 be designated as the Rogers Road Business Improvement Area (BIA).

In accordance with the Toronto Municipal Code, Chapter 19, Business Improvement Areas, the City Clerk conducted a poll to determine if there is sufficient support to designate the area as the Rogers Road BIA.  The area, generally along Rogers Road, is bounded by Weston Road to the west and Bronoco Avenue to the east, also includes the area along Keele Street, south to Lavender Road.

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 in Attachment No. 1 as the Rogers Road BIA. Subject to Council's approval, this will be the City's eighty-third BIA.