Item - 2019.MM5.4

City Council on March 27 and 28, 2019, adopted the following:

1. City Council direct the Deputy City Manager, Infrastructure and Development Services, and the General Manager, Transportation Services, consulting with other divisions as necessary, to report on the viability and requisite steps to create a program that incentivizes businesses and commercial property owners to achieve Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act compliance through the coordination of City sidewalk construction, utility upgrades, and repair contracts with private, commercial property improvements and, using the Priority Lead Water Service Replacement Program as a reference, to report back to the September 9, 2019 meeting of the Infrastructure and Environment Committee on the following items:

a. the feasibility of commercial property owners using contractors hired by the City to undertake minor work on their own sites to achieve Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act compliance, including the requisite legal framework necessary to indemnify the City from work carried out as part of these separate contracts;

b. the feasibility of commercial property Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act improvements being completed through the extension or expansion of City contracts with private owners only paying for the added costs;

c. how notice can be provided to commercial operators and commercial property owners in advance of appropriate sidewalk construction and repair projects to allow for sufficient time to secure contractors to complete Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act improvements on their sites; and

d. how the City can facilitate the effective coordination of City-hired and privately secured contractors to work in the same approximate area to complete Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act improvements on private property simultaneously with public realm improvements, including sidewalk repairs and construction.

2. City Council direct the Deputy City Manager, Infrastructure and Development Services, and the General Manager, Transportation Services to provide an interim report for feedback to the July 12, 2019 meeting of the Toronto Accessibility Advisory Committee.